Sirince, 8 km up the hill from Selcuk (pronounced Sel-shuk) in Turkey, has the most interesting version of ‘beware of dog’ signboard ever to be invented. Sirince is pronounced Shi-rin-jay and means ‘pretty town’. A village of 700 odd inhabitants, Sirince was hidden well from public view for many many years. Unwilling to open up [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Sirince: the pretty ugly village in Turkey
Posted in DesiPundit, Turkish delights, tagged efes, ephesus, photo essay, pretty village, selcuk, sirince, travelogue, turkey on March 25, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Officer, this elephant is aroused…
Posted in This and that, tagged holiday grievances, stupid questions, Telegraph UK, travel, travelers on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Aroused elephant tops list of bizarre holiday grievances.
Following top 20 stupid questions tourists ask, here then – 20 most ridiculous complaints received by tour operators.
*Among the more jingoistic grievances were that there were too many Spanish people being in Spain and too much curry served in restaurants in India.*
Chola! and thanks for all the bronze
Posted in DesiPundit, Heritage notes, Published, tagged Chola, Darasuram, Gangaikondacholapuram, heritage, Hindustan Times, HT Cafe, Kumbakonam, RajaRajaCholan, Tamilnadu, Tanjore, temples of South India, Thanjvaur, travel writing on March 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I had sent this titled – Chola! and thanks for all the bronze… it appeared on March 14th in HT Cafe as Temples of a dynasty… Here is the original version.
Long after I returned from Thanjavur, I kept telling friends, the cholas were dudes. Most predictably gave me strange looks but there were a few [...]
Things tourists ask!
Posted in This and that on March 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the Telegraph UK – 20 stupid questions asked by tourists
– such as, “Are there any lakes in the Lake District?” and “Why on earth did they build Windsor Castle on the flight path of Heathrow?”
Sin and the city: street snacks in old Delhi
Posted in Cities that never sleep, DesiPundit, tagged chaat, Chandni Chowk, Delhi, Dilli, old Delhi, photoessay, street food, street snacks on March 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
And if all the oil and spice of parathewaligali has not left you sated and/or with heart-burn, walk on…
As you walk out of Chandni Chowk station towards parathewaligali, ignore the Haldirams on your right. Or not. Of all things to eat in Delhi, I found their khandvi of the rare melt-in-the-mouth variety. So Stop there [...]
Sin and the city: in parathewaligali
Posted in Cities that never sleep, DesiPundit, tagged Chandni Chowk, Delhi, Dilli, eating out, old Delhi, paratha, parathewaligali on March 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Established in 1875, says the board. Five generations. That is what Kanhaiya Lal Durga Parshad Dixit’s strangely spelt parawthe are about. It is easy to believe it. True, now the employees wear spiffy red T-shirts with yellow aprons and matching yellow caps, all carrying the shop logo; there is no such thing as too much [...]
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