Sureka
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Panchgani to Mahableshwar to Pune to Ajanta
The present has a tendency to move much faster than my capacity to report on the past, so I am going to try to pick up the pace some. I have just returned from a second trip to Delhi that I am eager to tell you about, but haven’t yet reported on the first. This visit I was having fun imagining all the tourists coming…
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The Search for Sureka III
[This is the third part of a three-part story. Click here to start from the beginning.] Where we left off in the last installment, I had somehow been found by Sureka when I was just about to find her. She called my hotel while I was out and said she would meet me there in morning. …
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The Search for Sureka II
[This the second of a three-part story. Click here to read the first part.] I arrived in Panchgani yesterday morning and took the full self guided Benoit-James Historical Panchgani Tour. That will all be elaborated on later. This post will be about today, which was reserved for the Sureka Search. Read the last post before this one…
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Return to Panchgani
In the 2004 movie Swades, Shahrukh Khan, the ‘King of Bollywood’, stars as the handsome map-loving scientist who returns to India to reunite with his childhood maid. He rents a comically large camper and follows her trail, eventually leading to two women, the object of the original quest and a romantic interest who sings in a very high voice. My…
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