After a long time, I spent Christmas in Kolkata. This one was a really special one because my wife was with me and so were my parents and in-laws. We spent Christmas Eve at Park Street, Kolkata’s ancestral downtown area. This area is always spruced up during the Christmas-New Year week and this year [...]
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I had never been to Durgapur, Susmita’s hometown, ever since my marriage. Durgapur is the place where Susmita was brought up and the place which had a lot of memories for her. So, I was very thrilled when I boarded the train (Black Diamond) early in the morning at 6:00 am for [...]
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I always believed that Jet Airways was one of the better airlines to travel within India. However, a couple of experiences this time have left me with a bitter taste in my mouth. Firstly, when I boarded the flight from Delhi to Trivandrum, everything went off quite smoothly. As expected, they enquired [...]
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Whenever I visit Trivandrum, the India team makes it a point to take me to a movie and mostly, it is a Malayalam movie. Although I don’t understand the language very well, yet its resemblance to the Tamil language helps me to last through the movie. Of course, I do not understand the jokes/colloquial slang [...]
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India is now a booming economy and one market that is doing well and is poised for terrific growth is airline travel. As a result, a bunch of private airlines have come up such as Air Deccan, Kingfisher Airlines, Spice Airlines etc. Some of these airlines, such as Air Deccan are No-frills airlines. (similar to [...]
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