https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/a-new-window-opens-for-india.html
Akshardhool Digest: A new window opens for India
For my Engineering degree, I studied in one of the famous Indi...
a newdigestwindowopensindia
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/02/coorg-diary-part-iv.html
Akshardhool Digest: Coorg Diary Part IV
(continued from) Friday The kids have declared after breakfast that they are not willing to join us for any sight seeing trip. They would r...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-double-boost.html
Akshardhool Digest: The double boost
This week turned out to be a double boost for Indian Navy as two brand new, state of the art naval ships were handed over to it by the buil...
the doubledigestboost
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/08/internet-rumours-and-government.html
Akshardhool Digest: Internet, Rumours and the Government
Recent exodus of India's citizens from the northeast, settled in other parts of the country, back to their home towns, has now definitely...
and thedigestinternetrumoursgovernment
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/on-air-travel.html
Akshardhool Digest: On Air Travel
Last week, I had a chance to make a journey by air to New Delhi on a domestic flight. It has been years since I had traveled by air on a do...
on airdigesttravel
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/10/small-men-of-1962-part-ii.html
Akshardhool Digest: Small Men of 1962 Part II
(Continued from) India's northeastern border with Tibet, being a natural geographical border formed along series of snow clad Himalayan pe...
digestsmallmenpartii
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/02/lost-memorial-for-indian-soldiers-found.html
Akshardhool Digest: Lost memorial for Indian soldiers found in Sri Lanka.
In the year 1987, the then Indian Prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene, signed an accord, wh...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/01/where-hell-was-dhenukakata-part-v.html
Akshardhool Digest: Where the hell was Dhenukakata?- Part V
(Karle caves entrance, Red roofed building on right, is the temple of the deity Ekvira) (Continued from) The caves of Karle'n, where a thri...
the helldigestpartv
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/03/singapore-i-light-art-exposition.html
Akshardhool Digest: Singapore's ' i light ' art exposition.
Tiny Singapore has a small river known as Singapore river. This river originates probably in Pandan reservoir in the south of the island and...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/02/motoring-in-south-sahyadri-part-iv.html
Akshardhool Digest: Motoring in the South Sahyadri's- Part IV
There is something special about schooldays memories. Yet, most of school memories for me somehow, are sort of still, black and white phot...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/01/agent-orange.html
Akshardhool Digest: Agent Orange
10 th of August 1961, is considered as the saddest day in the last 50 years of history of Vietnam. On very this day, American aircraft had...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/05/travelling-without-mobile-phone.html
Akshardhool Digest: Travelling- without a Mobile phone?
Some time back, I was travelling from Mumbai to Pune city by a train service well known as 'Deccan Queen'. These days, everything except fo...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2015/03/water-water-everywhere-on-earth-and-in.html
Akshardhool Digest: Water water, everywhere, on earth and in space
The Taklamakan Desert, located in northwest China is the world's second largest shifting sand desert with about 85% made up of shifting san...
on earthdigestwatereverywherespace
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-launch-and-beyond.html
Akshardhool Digest: The launch and beyond
On a bright sunny Tuesday afternoon, as millions of Indians, glued to their television sets watched spell bound, India's giant PSLV rocket r...
the launchdigestbeyond
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-giant-revs-up-again.html
Akshardhool Digest: The giant revs up again
Do you remember, what was the greatest discovery of 2012? It was the experimental confirmation of the existence of the fundamental sub-atomi...
the giantdigestrevs
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/02/too-little-too-late.html
Akshardhool Digest: Too little; too late!
Anyone, who knows something about Cambodian history, would heave a sigh of relief, as United Nations backed trial of Khmer Rouge leaders f...
too littledigestlate
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/02/australian-museum-accepts-having-bought_12.html
Akshardhool Digest: Australian museum accepts having bought a stolen idol from India: Part I
It appears that the rope given to ill famous Indian crook, Subhash Chandra Kapoor, now in a Chennai jail, is getting shorter and shorter as ...
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/03/smashing-cars-with-tank-new-faces-of.html
Akshardhool Digest: Smashing cars with a tank; new faces of Tourism
For most of the people, tourism means a well planned tour to few beautiful spots in the hills or to a beach, good food , plenty of relaxati...
with anew facesdigestsmashingcars
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/09/hampi-ruin-destroyed-by-miscreants.html
Akshardhool Digest: Hampi ruin destroyed by miscreants
Geographically speaking, peninsular India can be divided into four distinct regions. Himalayan mountainous region of far north, fertile fla...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/11/piracy-on-rise-in-malacca-straits-again.html
Akshardhool Digest: Piracy on the rise in Malacca straits again
Malacca is located some two hundred kilometers north of Singapore. The city is the capital of State of Malacca within federal Malaysia. Wha...
on the risedigestpiracymalaccastraits
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/08/importing-tea-from-china-to-india-in.html
Akshardhool Digest: Importing Tea from China to India in the middle ages
Today, India is the second largest tea producer in the world. However, very few people are aware of the fact that till middle of nineteent...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-different-kind-of-treasure-trove.html
Akshardhool Digest: A different kind of treasure trove
Sometimes during year 2010, a nondescript man travelling by train from Switzerland to the German city of Munich, caught attention of the Ba...
different kinddigesttreasuretrove
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/03/the-staffordshire-treasures.html
Akshardhool Digest: The Staffordshire Treasures
There are people, who always hope to find a hidden treasure under ground or inside a wall of a ruin. Mr. Terry Herbert of Bur...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/09/western-ghats-wanderings-part-ii.html
Akshardhool Digest: Western Ghats Wanderings - Part II
(Continued from) Dawn arrives late in the middle of a jungle. The golden rays of the morning sun get effectively blocked by the tall...
western ghatsdigestwanderingspartii
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/03/head-on-collision.html
Akshardhool Digest: Head on collision
Blits was speeding along its pre-planned path, when an unidentified object hit it, also moving at a tremendous speed. The collision was hea...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/07/long-forgotten-musical-tracks-52.html
Akshardhool Digest: Long forgotten musical tracks # 52
The Platters,formed in Los Angeles in 1953, were one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. In 1958 they came ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/12/tip-of-iceberg.html
Akshardhool Digest: Tip of an iceberg
There appears to be no end to nefarious activities of the ill famous criminal, Subhash Chandra Kapoor, who had established himself as a U.S...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/run-for-your-lives-part-iv.html
Akshardhool Digest: Run for your lives- Part IV
The war, which started on 12th of October 1962, in the Kameng division of NEFA or Arunachal Pradesh, ended on 19th November, when Chinese f...
run for your livesdigestpart
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2015/04/net-neutrality-how-to-have-cake-and-eat.html
Akshardhool Digest: Net Neutrality; how to have the cake and eat it too
I fully support net neutrality and strongly oppose any attempts by anyone to restrict my choices in selecting any web site ( called Apps whe...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-world-of-allergies.html
Akshardhool Digest: The world of allergies
If you ask me, what would I consider the biggest bane of modern living to be? I can give the answer in a jiffy. The most troublesome cause t...
the worlddigestallergies
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/07/shoot-down-that-drone.html
Akshardhool Digest: Shoot down that drone!
This is one bit of news that would gladly warm the hearts of Taliban and other such terrorists, carrying on with their nefarious activities...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/12/no-ram-islam-or-indians-on-internet.html
Akshardhool Digest: No ram, islam or indians on the Internet!
Sometime back, I wrote an article about the new scheme of allotment of Internet addresses proposed by ICANN or Internet Corporation for Ass...
on thedigestramislamindians
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/01/have-things-to-remember-chant-them.html
Akshardhool Digest: Have things to remember, chant them!
'Soorya Siddhaant' (Theory from the Sun-God) is an ancient Indian treatise on astronomy and related subjects, written around 1000 CE and is ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/04/india-elections-highest-polling-station.html
Akshardhool Digest: India Elections; highest polling station in the world
Hikkim Village India's marathon general elections have now reached the half way mark. The elections are being held in nine phases, and woul...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/03/eating-fads.html
Akshardhool Digest: Eating Fads
Few decades ago, a magazine titled as 'Mother India' used to be fairly popular amongst city dwellers of India. It's editor, Mr. Baburao Pat...
digesteatingfads
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-hot-new-star.html
Akshardhool Digest: A hot new star
All over the world, hundreds of different varieties of chilies are grown. Not all chili varieties are hot enough. Some varieties like Caps...
hot newdigeststar
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-kapilavastu-controversy-part-i.html
Akshardhool Digest: The Kapilavastu controversy: Part I
About two centuries after the death or Mahaparinirvana of Goutama Buddha in 5 th century BCE, Emperor Asoka of Medieval India, went on ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/07/long-forgotten-musical-tracks-54.html
Akshardhool Digest: Long forgotten musical tracks # 54
This week we have "Runaway" a number-one Billboard Hot 100 song, made famous by Del Shannon in 1961. The song also had become a major inte...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-problem-of-e-waste.html
Akshardhool Digest: The problem of e-waste
I am a fairly conservative user of electronic gadgets. I do not like to throw away and buy new gadgets just because something better has b...
the problemdigestwaste
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/09/a-village-under-siege.html
Akshardhool Digest: A village under siege
Khlong Charoen Wai is a small village in the Chachoengsao province in central Thailand. The village is facing serious trouble from invaders...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/run-for-your-lives-part-i.html
Akshardhool Digest: Run for your lives-Part I
We have seen in a previous article, the background and reasons of the total and extensive defeat in East Ladakh, inflicted on India by Chin...
run for your livesdigestpart
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/01/crazy-bicycles-part-ii.html
Akshardhool Digest: Crazy Bicycles, Part II
(continued from) Craig Calfee is an engineer based in California. He specializes in assembly of bicycles used in bicycle racing all over the...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/a-journey-in-past-with-film-company.html
Akshardhool Digest: A journey in the past with 'Prabhat Film Company'
I experienced a rather different yet pleasant experience on the evening of 20th December 2011. It was like a journey back in time. Not very ...
in the pastdigestjourney
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/10/as-illusive-as-his-goddamn-particle.html
Akshardhool Digest: As illusive as his Goddamn particle
I want to take the readers back in time, Billions of light years away, to an instant, when the Big bang had just created the Universe. Imme...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/05/india-deploys-front-line-fighters-at.html
Akshardhool Digest: India deploys front line fighters at a new base in deep south
Thanjavur is a historic town deep in the interior of the southern state of TamilNadu on India;s east coast. The city is an important agricul...
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/02/kutch-and-kathiawar-tryst-with-history_13.html
Akshardhool Digest: Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part XI
(Continued from) Thursday Junagadh is imbibed with history. Even when on a short visit, it becomes clear that Junagadh is inseparable from ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/the-decisive-maratha-afghan-war-in-1761.html
Akshardhool Digest: The decisive Maratha- Afghan war in 1761 at Panipat; Total expenditure 900...
One of the most decisive war, which had direct bearing on the history of India in Eighteenth Century, was fought between forces of Maratha E...
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2015/05/walking-out-of-family.html
Akshardhool Digest: Walking out of the family
Yesterday I watched a Hollywood film titled " Alex of Venice," that depicted a crisis in the life of a career oriented workaholic woman with...
walking outof thedigestfamily
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/02/kutch-and-kathiawar-tryst-with-history_7.html
Akshardhool Digest: Kutch and Kathiawar: A tryst with history, Part V
(Continuing from) Saturday Right in the middle of the Rann of Kutch, there stands a huge island or a 'bet' with an area of about 313 Sq. Km....
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/01/requiem-for-pune-rivers-part-i.html
Akshardhool Digest: Requiem for Pune Rivers- Part I
Case of a Missing Stream My house in Pune, is located on the road where erstwhile 'Prabhat Film Company' had it's studios. When I was young,...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-mountain-movers.html
Akshardhool Digest: The mountain movers
There are two well known stories from Indian mythology that mention about moving mountains. The first story is from Ramayana. During the gr...
the mountaindigestmovers
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/05/selling-ice-to-eskimos.html
Akshardhool Digest: Selling Ice to Eskimos
I just read an amazing report, which says that Chinese buyers have purchased 20,000 kg of Darjeeling tea from India recently, and there is a...
digestsellingiceeskimos
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/10/long-forgotten-musical-tracks-65.html
Akshardhool Digest: Long forgotten musical tracks # 65
Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, a Welsh singer, had become quite famous in 1950's and was even called as "one of the most popular female voca...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/09/long-forgotten-musical-tracks-59.html
Akshardhool Digest: Long forgotten musical tracks # 59
This week we have another song from Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey) a British Indian pop singer, best known for his beauti...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/03/old-wine-in-old-bottle.html
Akshardhool Digest: Old Wine in old bottle!
Singapore's nonagenarian leader, Lee Kuan Yew, often referred to as the founding father of Singapore, was also the first Prime Minister of...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-gold-rush-at-mangalore.html
Akshardhool Digest: The gold rush at Mangalore
Mangalore is a major port city on west coast of India having world-class industries and educational institutions. The city can boast of hav...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-profile-in-courage.html
Akshardhool Digest: A Profile in courage
Nine years ago, Sonali Mukherjee was a normal 17 year old girl, energetic, enthusiastic and cheery: studying in a college in Dhanbad, India...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/09/anarchy-on-roads-and-need-for-strong.html
Akshardhool Digest: Anarchy on roads and need for a strong deterrent punishment
I live near a road junction, that remains extremely busy during working hours. Two important arterial roads, carrying heavy traffic, cross ...
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/english-hinglish-or-manglish.html
Akshardhool Digest: English, Hinglish or Manglish
A Tamil song 'Kolaveri De' , which has been an instant hit on the internet, has spread around like wild fire. The singer of this song Mr. Dh...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/07/hill-of-lamp-amaravati-part-iii.html
Akshardhool Digest: Hill of the Lamp; Amaravati (Part III)
(Continued from) The stone slabs displayed in the special Amaravati enclosure of Chennai Museum are all sculptured with finest bass reliefs....
of thedigesthilllampamaravati
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/02/caught-in-cross-winds.html
Akshardhool Digest: Caught in the cross winds?
Chennai is the fourth larges city in India with a population of well over 5 Million. It is also an important trade center in the south Indi...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/10/yal-devi-roars-again.html
Akshardhool Digest: Yal Devi roars again
One of the Indian Railways subsidiary companies, IRCON's (IRCON International Ltd.)efficient project execution and an aid package worth US$...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/07/fighting-for-wrong-legacy.html
Akshardhool Digest: Fighting for the wrong legacy
Sometime back, on one of the evenings, I had gone to attend a musical concert in a nearby hall. Two or three artists were supposed to perfo...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/01/victoria-secret-gold.html
Akshardhool Digest: Victoria's secret gold
During a visit to the National museum of Natural history of Smithsonian institutes, in Washington DC, I had watched in amazement a small nu...
victoria s secretdigestgold
https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/10/small-men-of-1962-part-i.html
Akshardhool Digest: Small men of 1962 -Part I
In the previous series of articles , we saw the background and reasons of the total and extensive defeat in East Ladakh, inflicted on India...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-way-to-go.html
Akshardhool Digest: The way to go
In the traditional Hindu marriages in India today, the bride is often offered and given gifts, by near relatives, friends and kin, consistin...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/11/amu-moribund-logic.html
Akshardhool Digest: AMU's moribund logic
Sometimes I wonder, what kind of a country India really is? On one hand, we are proudly told by K. Radhakrishnan, chief of India's space ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/01/even-censorship-has-it-limits.html
Akshardhool Digest: Even censorship has it's limits
During 60 years of the history of independent India, there has been just one occasion, when Government imprudently thought it fit to impose...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/08/why-gm-crops-ail-india.html
Akshardhool Digest: Why GM crops ail India?
In Indian politics, one would never know, when an issue suddenly turns into a controversy, where everyone involved has a firm opinion, even...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/03/trashing-food.html
Akshardhool Digest: Trashing food
As a child, one of most important message, I always received from my parents and grandparents, was that I should never waste even a grain o...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-they-answer-not-to-thy-call-walk.html
Akshardhool Digest: If they answer not to thy call, walk alone!
As we grow over the years, absolutely new types of problems start facing us. It is not that we have never been aware of such kind of proble...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/09/long-forgotten-musical-tracks-9.html
Akshardhool Digest: Long forgotten musical tracks # 9
An American instrumental rock band named as The Ventures was formed in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. 'Diamond head' was one of their fin...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2014/05/long-forgotten-musical-tracks-42.html
Akshardhool Digest: Long forgotten musical tracks # 42
Are You Lonesome Tonight?" is a popular song that was first published in 1927. However, when it was revived by Elvis Presley in 1960, it s...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-fantastic-effort-on-any-count.html
Akshardhool Digest: A fantastic effort on any count
Middle east or the Arab world, remains today the most unsettled part pf the world. First it was the imbroglio involving Syrian opposition ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-clogged-urban-future.html
Akshardhool Digest: A clogged urban future
A friend mentioned to me yesterday, an interesting calculation about traffic congestion on roads in my hometown, Pune in India. This calcu...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/12/wakhan-corridor.html
Akshardhool Digest: Wakhan Corridor
I first heard about the 'Wakhan Corrridor,' a remote region of Afghanistan, while reading the well known book, 'The Great game' by Peter Hop...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2013/06/hazed-out-in-singapore.html
Akshardhool Digest: Hazed out in Singapore
I am a regular visitor to Singapore since last decade or so. I have been here in all seasons. What I mean is that I have visited this place ...
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https://akshardhooldigest.blogspot.com/2012/06/nepal-wonder-drug-wild-fungus.html
Akshardhool Digest: Nepal's Wonder drug- a wild fungus
As summer months approach, the villagers from Nepalese districts of Darchula and Dolpa, bordering Tibet, are all out on a mission. A visit...
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