Tag: TRAVELOGUE

Alaska: Stranger than fiction – 2
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Alaska: Stranger than fiction – 2

August 13, 2018

By B.S. Narayanaswamy, Valuation Consultant, Bengaluru [Continued from yesterday] Our next stop was Sitka town which is the seat of Alaska University and its ethnic capital. The Alaskans are very proud of their State and culture which was evident all along. Sitka enjoys a fair weather and good rainfall. The Russians, Alaskans and Americans lead…

Alaska: Stranger than fiction – 1
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Alaska: Stranger than fiction – 1

August 12, 2018

By B.S. Narayanaswamy, Valuation Consultant, Bengaluru Stranger than Fiction’ is an appropriate phrase for Alaska, a State of The United States of America.  Alaska was bought by the USA from Russia for paltry sum of 72 lakh dollars in 1867. While Russia is about 5 kms from Alaska, the nearest American soil of Washington State is…

American Dreams – 3
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American Dreams – 3

January 4, 2018

By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC [Continued from Dec. 28] I travelled about 2,500 miles by road across the US. No humps and unbelievable, only one pothole, and that too in a car park. I was curious to know as to how these roads are maintained so well in spite of such a heavy…

American Dreams – 2
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American Dreams – 2

December 28, 2017

By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC [Continued from Dec. 21] Once I met a doctor at a social gathering and asked him the reason for this over reaction and frightening of the patients. What he told me was amazing. If a patient is told of 10 complications and if by chance he or she gets…

American Dreams – 1
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American Dreams – 1

December 21, 2017

By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC It is exactly five months now. The time I have put pen on paper, literally. Tried it in the US where I had gone for a holiday but failed miserably. There is a folk story of Vikramaditya’s  throne which reads like this: A  simple and illiterate cowherd saw…

EGYPT: An enigma inside a riddle – 2
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EGYPT: An enigma inside a riddle – 2

March 25, 2017

Tracing the glorious Egyptian Civilisation. By B.S. Narayanaswamy  [Continued from yesterday] It all started with Great Napolean conquering Egypt in 1799 and made it a French Colony. His army could find a stone (now called Rosetta stone) with strange etchings of three languages at a place called Rashid, 15 kms from Alexandria. This paved the…

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