India

pen4hire on February 22nd, 2010

Destination: Shimla, India
Book:  Shimla – A British Himalayan Town, by Sumit Vashisht
A Guest post by Dr. Jessie Voigts

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pen4hire on July 30th, 2009

Destination: India
Book: Wanderlust and Lipstick: For Women Traveling to India by Beth Whitman
Let me start right off by saying that I think Beth Whitman is a gift to women who want adventurous travel in all those places that good little girls are not supposed to go–particularly by themselves, or with only the protection of (gasp!) [...]

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pen4hire on July 6th, 2009

Destination: India
Book: East of the Sun by Julia Gregson
Looking for a good beach read?  The kind of book that takes you to another world? East of the Sun by Julia Gregson makes for a great read for travel to the beach or mountains. I could not put it down.  Read it in [...]

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pen4hire on July 1st, 2009

Author Shelley Seale talks about her Six favorite books for travel to India

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pen4hire on June 25th, 2009

Author Shelley Seale visits the “invisible” children of India like those seen in Slumdog Millionaire, and reflects on her experience of India.

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pen4hire on May 21st, 2009

Note: This is guest post day amongst the Every-Day-in-May Bloggers. I was fortunate to swap with Sue Dickman and you kind find me over at A Life Divided, talking about Greece and a cookbook.
Destination: Delhi, India
Book: City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
I’m usually to be found over at A Life Divided, [...]

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pen4hire on March 13th, 2009

Welcome fans of Monica Bhide.  I hope you will wander around a bit in the Traveler’s Library, and come back soon.
Today Monica Bhide tells us about her own experience in the slums of Mumbai.
I went to Dharavi once, it is said to be the largest slum in Asia and it is located in Mumbai.  I [...]

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pen4hire on March 12th, 2009

WELCOME ALL MONICA BHIDE FANS! Thanks for visiting, and I hope you’ll considering coming back often, or subscribing with that big orange button to the right.
Our guest today is Monica Bhide, a fine writer and an expert on Indian food. Her latest  work is Modern Spice. Monica wrote a moving essay on her blog [...]

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pen4hire on March 9th, 2009

I am happy to announce that on Friday, March 13–our lucky day–Monica Bhide will respond to the post on Slumdog Millionaire and slum tours. Monica is a native of India and loves Mumbai, so we hope to learn from her a different point of veiw about visiting that Indian city. And accomplished writer of books [...]

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