Swapnapuri Hotel
Sea Beach Road Puri, Orissa, 752001, India
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Kolkata and Indian trains
... the most fascinating things in India is the amazing street-life, and this is at its most atmospheric in Kolkata. Everything you can imagine is happening on the pavements (sidewalks): people are selling food, cooking food, washing dishes, eating food, washing themselves, squeezing juice from sugar cane, mending shoes, mending motorbikes, washing cars, pounding metal, welding metal, sawing wood, making furniture, urinating in the gutter, dumping rubbish, sorting rubbish, ...
Back on the beach, real indian beach
... eat jellyfish, and plastic bags look like jellyfish in the water the turtles eat the plastic and choke on it. There was also a dead dog washed up on the beach, for some reason it had its legs tied together. All the Indians seemed to be having great fun throwing sand at each other and going in the sea with all their clothes on, but they do make an awful mess with all their tins and ...
Orissa
... Tribals from all areas went there for work. Many from Orissa. From Bangladesh. From Bihar. From lots of poor areas in India. Now you have a vast area in Assam with its schedule not including all these STs from other areas. So they lose their rights as STs. They are just as poor and uneducated but Assam does not carry them on their roles. No allotments - which the local STs get. No schooling for their children - which the local STs get. Etc. etc. Now, ...
Fresh from the Well
... to anyone riding an Indian train: drink little water and definitely DO NOT EAT much prior to or during the trip so that you will not have to use the squatting toilet that merely drops into an open hole to the tracks below! I was aghast!) The cabin, however was clean, and so were the sheets, the heavy wool blanket, and the small, thin pillow provided. The pillow had a slight musty odor, but it was subtle enough to be insignificant. I ...
Germaine Greer
... eventually longed for a child herself, yet found she was unable to have one.
Her greatest frustration as a woman was now her shopping expeditions to the supermarket! (funny one that; I kind of love those culinary trips!)
I next discovered online a photo of Germaine in the nude, as she was now, a faded beauty with sunken boobs, but looking great nevertheless.
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