tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46981655984315594212024-03-14T11:07:33.285+05:30Idle brain's paradiseThink more, work lessLokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-63187308176649303522011-02-27T00:33:00.033+05:302014-10-31T08:08:54.963+05:30Deulti<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><b style="color: #ff9900;">দেউলটি দর্শন</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">D</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">estination :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">দেউলটি </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">(Deulti),</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"> মেল্যক </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">(Mellock),</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"> সামতাবেড়</span> (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Samtaber), all district Howrah, West Bengal, India</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Departure</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> : Saturday 19.2.2011, from respective houses by car</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Return</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> : Sunday 20.2.2011, after post lunch coffee</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">P</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">articipants :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">The usual BECA gang, in fact 38 of them + 1 Dalmatian</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">he occasion :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Mantu, visiting from USA after a long time, threw a party to meet friends. As is his norm, he wanted an overnight party. Buro was entrusted with the budget, venue & menu selection, which he did quite well.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">he journey :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">This was one unique trip, where we did not assemble first and then journeyed en masse. Instead, we travelled in hired station wagons, collecting 2 / 3 families or in personal cars. So, the gang trickled in, instead of landing like the hordes of Genghis Khan.</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="//img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <style> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><img src="//img2.blogblog.com/img/video_object.png" style="background-color: #b2b2b2; " class="BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder" id="ieooui" data-original-id="ieooui" /> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} table.MsoTableGrid {mso-style-name:"Table Grid"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; border:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-border-insideh:.5pt solid windowtext; mso-border-insidev:.5pt solid windowtext; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Times; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">he place</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> : </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Our car crossed the Vidyasagar Setu (2<sup>nd</sup> Hooghly Bridge), passed on to Shankrail through the toll plaza and headed along the Kona Highway. Onwards we reached the National Highway 6, paying toll of Rs30. Along NH6 we passed Panchla, Uluberia, Kulgachhia, Chandpur, Bagnan to reach the Deulti crossing. As usual, there is no signboard. One has to be guided by bystanders to slow down at the Deulti Railway Station road crossing and turn right. After you enter the narrow village lane, you know you are in the right path if you see sweetshop Raksha Kali Mishtanya Bhandarand a small image of renowned wordsmith Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. You know you have overshot the mark on NH6, if you suddenly find you have crossed River Rupnarayan and landed near those wonderful roadside tea & ‘<span style="font-style: italic;">rosogolla</span>’ shops of Kolaghat. At 22°27'14"N 87°54'53"E, i.e. some 60kM from Calcutta and a short tap off from the NH6, we were booked at Nirala Resort, which has some 40 rooms in lawns, swimming pool & water tanks spread over about 10 acres of land. Close by flows the River Rupnarayan. The nearest train station is Deulti.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Unlike all our previous excursions, this place was teeming with other revellers, almost all of whom departed in the evening. Since Sania remains locked up alone at home while Mou & Ashim go to work, she had a gala time being the centre of attraction of so many people. At times when the grounds were empty, Ashim allowed her loose, which added to her delight. In the entire 30 hours of her stay, her tail did a non-stop wagging.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">After a very satisfactory lunch, the gang left in 2 station wagons to visit the house of the renowned story teller Late Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay in the neighbouring village Samtaber. In front of his house was an earthen, rat proof granary next to a pond. In his story ‘Ramer sumati’, the large fishes Kartik & Ganesh lived in this pond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">It rained at night, greatly increasing the comfort of the trip. The silence of a cloudy morning was punctured repeatedly by the calls of a </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">বউ কথা কও</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> (‘bou-katha-kao’, Indian Cuckoo,<span style="font-style: italic;"> Cuculus micropterus</span>. Listen to its call at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:C-micropterus.ogg">here</a>) from a tall Eucalyptus tree. Unfortunately, before a cellphone could to switched to recording mode, it flew away. In course of the morning, calls of many other birds were heard, including the raucous call of </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">হা</span><span style="font-size: 130%;">ড়ি</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">চাঁ</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;">চা</span> (</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">‘</span><span lang="EN-GB">Harichñacha’, Rufous Treepie, <i>Dendrocitta vagabunda</i>)</span><span lang="EN-GB">, but all hidden in foliage. As the day </span><span lang="EN-GB">progressed, a band of </span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 130%;">ছাতারে</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> (‘Chhataré’, Seven Sisters, Jungle Babbler, <i>Turdoides rufescens</i>) came down and noisily investigated the yard near us. We roamed around in the ample gardens & nursery of N</span><span lang="EN-GB">irala Resort. There was a profusion of brightly coloured seasonal flowers.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">H</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">ither & thither :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">From Sarat Ch’s house, a distant view of River Rupnarayan attracted us. A wobbly walk on narrow clay paths between harvested rice paddies took us to the bank. The erosion of Rupnarayan is slowly stealing land out of this bank. Yet, the fertile alluvium allows good crops. Finding some people loitering at a distance in a field with brightly coloured patches, Chitrita & Karabi decided, it must be season flower beds & started off towards it, riskily tiptoeing over highly slippery muddy patches. As it turned out, the bright colours belonged to woven polythene sacks for storing the potatoes being harvested.</span></div>
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Residence & belongings of renowned wordsmith late Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay at Samtaber</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">Next morning, after a late breakfast of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">'<span style="font-style: italic;">luchi & chholar dal</span>' ending at 11:00, some of us felt the need to work it off before lunch. We ambled out on foot, socializing with & guided by the local population. This turned out to be an extremely satisfactory experience. We discovered a large, beautiful, terracotta ornamented, dilapidated temple of Radha & Madangopal-jiu. The temple was under repair. The deities were shifted to a neighbour’s house a few meters away. Gods were in post lunch repose, lying supine on a mattressed bed under a mosquito net. It seems, a priest visits only once a day and performs all the pujas of 24 hrs in one go. So, Radha & Madangopal-jiu are ritualistically woken up each morning, pujas performed. After lunch they are sent to bed till next morning, to sleep for the next 16 hours Under such sudden & unexpected visit from so many devotees from a distant city, the host agreed to raise the mosquito net to allow us a glimpse, but did not agree to wake them up. We registered our names paid donation for prayers to be said in our names on the morrow. The temple was built in 1651 AD by Mukundaprasad Roychoudhury (no known relation to Loken) the zemindar of Mangalhat Pragana *. Surprisingly, it is not to be found in Google, although this is one of the the largest ‘atchala’ (roof with 8 slopes) temple in Bengal. While we were coming away, a small troupe of 3 very elderly Germans with 2 Indian guides turned up. So, hopefully, we may be able to find some information on the temple in near future in some German website.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">The photo & history of Madangopaljiu’s temple is taken from the Bengali book on </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> <span style="font-size: 130%;">হা</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 130%;">ও</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 130%;">ড়া শহরের পুরাকীর্তি</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> (‘Howrah saharer purakirti = Heritage Buildings of Howrah) published by PWD (Archeology) Dept of Govt of West Bengal,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">While ambling around, we discovered 2 goat kids sparring under a tree. It was so funny, that we made a small video of it. Presently, Ma goat, heavily pregnant with the next batch, turned up and stopped the show. See it all :</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;">Adda</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: magenta; font-size: 100%;"> :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 100%;">As usual, the adda went on endless. It was revitalized each time some more guests arrived in phases on the 2<sup>nd</sup> morning. Signs were apparent that we are aging, as the discussion veered to health issues. Seems almost all of us are fighting fat. One mystery was Manu & Gauri. Though they live in USA, where the staple diet is beaf steaks, both of them maintained slim figures. Mantu clarified, beaf steaks is by no means their diet and he runs 1 to 1½ miles (~ 2.4kM) per day. This found little favour amongst those present, as running like a horse was not anybody’s idea of good life. Lumu too started his usual postulations about spiritual upliftment of our souls. Since the previous night was steeped in spirits of another kind, nobody took issues with him.</span></div>
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Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-27652056324221134702009-03-02T12:55:00.004+05:302017-12-06T22:42:32.699+05:30Hanseswari & Basudev Temples<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-76108266805163789512009-01-22T12:50:00.036+05:302010-09-10T13:37:40.747+05:30Gizmos Galore<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Here are some of the gizmos I would like to fiddle with. I have no idea how long they last or if they really work as claimed.</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPmyfnIm9EzyklzB4CvAa4avyVpdamMTHdXj-Hjmm3Nl1Uxqx7Gpq5jx16UkVfBcqu_B8Mh2uKQ7p8XIxp-jrHiGcE-VAW6ZFjNgUOjGgskETnt2YJ2JXbfdpnh90zHzqJozzMP3nJO_S/s1600-h/GG1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 141px; height: 84px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPmyfnIm9EzyklzB4CvAa4avyVpdamMTHdXj-Hjmm3Nl1Uxqx7Gpq5jx16UkVfBcqu_B8Mh2uKQ7p8XIxp-jrHiGcE-VAW6ZFjNgUOjGgskETnt2YJ2JXbfdpnh90zHzqJozzMP3nJO_S/s320/GG1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294018199197907346" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > Waterproof cell phone. This photo shows Fujitsu F-01A, fingerprint-enabled & with touchscreen display, camera with autofocus, GPS with Mobile Google Maps & e-Wallet mobile payment capability</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">See http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/01/fujitsu_f01a_waterproof_phone_now_available.html</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QVxJmoSxDQMpXNpDKJo56qqB_WMxurc3WFWKpfV6jcsI2350qYKb8e3eOQfQV96u7Gn0xkiYjAvhgfOvGQSyPcPWdxGnrUxpp9WWke2xTLA2XpP4bW_tUeUOk1sgi7yvexv-ueXf-c_P/s1600-h/GG2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 87px; height: 94px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8QVxJmoSxDQMpXNpDKJo56qqB_WMxurc3WFWKpfV6jcsI2350qYKb8e3eOQfQV96u7Gn0xkiYjAvhgfOvGQSyPcPWdxGnrUxpp9WWke2xTLA2XpP4bW_tUeUOk1sgi7yvexv-ueXf-c_P/s320/GG2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294036809487058962" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > Candles with in-built, <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/94ce/">colour changing LED lights</a>.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0_NVvEF_iyRQWdWTXz1yT7w9qCxA0x8n4XDqHZOf4Wt5AVBRNgW0MrhQXhv91-I8jwvWnJ_UHqTgyUbdLcWBCKNPlKZnW1YmxBt536CJkLBRSTvXg1XFAxFwXIZmSUdYLMXpiOiaiL-N/s1600-h/GG3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 85px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0_NVvEF_iyRQWdWTXz1yT7w9qCxA0x8n4XDqHZOf4Wt5AVBRNgW0MrhQXhv91-I8jwvWnJ_UHqTgyUbdLcWBCKNPlKZnW1YmxBt536CJkLBRSTvXg1XFAxFwXIZmSUdYLMXpiOiaiL-N/s320/GG3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294019080655922946" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > Solar charger for cellphones, iPod etc. A full charge from will deliver </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">enough power to a mobile phone to give I hour of talk time. Wish they could improve upon it.</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">See http://solartechnology.co.uk/products/Solar_chargers/scotty_charger.asp</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTD6-7-q7ri_W9pB2cnfPiXzAiDj8GfiCmPpG2AjtisRciyEFPFvoAfUY0UsWTz0YAH6e6a2-6utsTrEROAaISiW1MpvEo0Ban5EVlzlAVYcZCvOUjx7Afir8g7szg6K_y9AXh26Uu2vG0/s1600-h/GG4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 124px; height: 72px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTD6-7-q7ri_W9pB2cnfPiXzAiDj8GfiCmPpG2AjtisRciyEFPFvoAfUY0UsWTz0YAH6e6a2-6utsTrEROAaISiW1MpvEo0Ban5EVlzlAVYcZCvOUjx7Afir8g7szg6K_y9AXh26Uu2vG0/s320/GG4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294019386953530754" border="0" /></a></span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Wind & solar charger with a USB port and lots of little adapters for your gadgets</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />See http://www.redferret.net/?p=12462 or<br />http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/200901111200/ces-kinesis-wind-solar-charger.html<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdDha0Cn16ZOVhyphenhyphenB7cEmbzDcss16pI8woyyHM0ezcZ84FXpBFJx646p3utfvW4fLaho0ny1NGZnDzns4bZvCrUarxLyTEH9RKBrcyjULca4Hj42_1_GlfCBwH4HQVtvhyM0YmlC1DaEmP/s1600-h/GG5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 76px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdDha0Cn16ZOVhyphenhyphenB7cEmbzDcss16pI8woyyHM0ezcZ84FXpBFJx646p3utfvW4fLaho0ny1NGZnDzns4bZvCrUarxLyTEH9RKBrcyjULca4Hj42_1_GlfCBwH4HQVtvhyM0YmlC1DaEmP/s320/GG5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294019737889143970" border="0" /></a></span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Electronic book. These 2 items are now main contenders in the market. I would like the size & shape of the Sony (RHS) with all features of AmazonKindle (LHS), but with high memory, USB port, headphone port & ability to store all my electronic books, photos & music. Why maybe also with GPS & synchronizable clock</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >See http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA for AmazonKindle or</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/consumer/computer_peripheral/release/9402.html for Sony</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaVfVgKWKwdau3beEavjKS1hk4kHJhGJcgethgTQCYefel8xkxI4s31Ysdd8vwsV8CrUK-qYMe7CSa7hVxnMMbfC7Cd8EYdDiKdJAoU83wCDHsPunVV3QidDhPBEH4gZ5dP6ADj6My-u4E/s1600-h/GG6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 53px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaVfVgKWKwdau3beEavjKS1hk4kHJhGJcgethgTQCYefel8xkxI4s31Ysdd8vwsV8CrUK-qYMe7CSa7hVxnMMbfC7Cd8EYdDiKdJAoU83wCDHsPunVV3QidDhPBEH4gZ5dP6ADj6My-u4E/s320/GG6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294019845411452754" border="0" /></a></span> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br />Foldable electric bicycles</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >See http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/03/time_off_foldin.php or</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/eco-transportation-capella-lightweight-foldable-electric-bike/ or</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/grasshoper-foldable-electric-bike-for-city-commuters/ or</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/folding-electric-bike-153551.php</span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><u><span style="font-size:130%;">Drop your decimal</span><br /></u></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Some of the gizmos I would like to buy, if only the sellers would shift the decimal in their prices by a step or two to the left :<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDXCPSSH3qLLTWdD3i_tmbxJJ87-6ddi0Vsuh4Q4acoAxhETmVG5ufHMDnFvYXxuwHF9cxGBMVl6KT673Zihc5_db_NrQrw4YZxwPpj3Atj16F8vvfgczpdfhAa9gWEuDY_eP_fuMMhyEI/s1600-h/GG7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 47px; height: 73px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDXCPSSH3qLLTWdD3i_tmbxJJ87-6ddi0Vsuh4Q4acoAxhETmVG5ufHMDnFvYXxuwHF9cxGBMVl6KT673Zihc5_db_NrQrw4YZxwPpj3Atj16F8vvfgczpdfhAa9gWEuDY_eP_fuMMhyEI/s320/GG7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294023588338893890" border="0" /></a> Noise cancelation headphones<br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >See http://www.headphoneworld.com/c/Noise_Cancelling_Headphones.htm<br /><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOf2wJCjvBJCARyUEkcr2cB8zmVPCTbxcgEljDsasTC6WjyJ-xuPSdJVDclnq4_MhPN8-Nu8mU3rhDOQdGMHfqTqKXTLU4zpgcaNUKvhufgE09AZ2MFLEtV29PuxcJOyFj9x5tY4JkQrvm/s1600-h/GG9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 79px; height: 80px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOf2wJCjvBJCARyUEkcr2cB8zmVPCTbxcgEljDsasTC6WjyJ-xuPSdJVDclnq4_MhPN8-Nu8mU3rhDOQdGMHfqTqKXTLU4zpgcaNUKvhufgE09AZ2MFLEtV29PuxcJOyFj9x5tY4JkQrvm/s320/GG9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294029394116176370" border="0" /></a> TV / video in glasses<br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >See http://www.i-glassesstore.com/ig-hrvpro.html or</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:78%;" >http://www.i-glassesstore.com/</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><u><span style="font-size:130%;">Wanted in Gizmoland</span><br /></u></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">Some of the gizmos that could sell like hot cakes.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">- Electronic mosquito droppers : some time back, I read somewhere, that ultrasound generated at 185kHz makes thoracic muscles of mosquitoes resonate, thereby severely impairing their flying capability. Unable to fly, they would drop to the ground like stones. Sound at this frequency does not affect humans, even the elderly, the very young or pets. If this is true, why doesn’t someone make such ultrasound generators?</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">- Noise cancelling halo : If I do not want my ears plugged up, but don't want to hear the droning of my neighbour in the cellphone while in a long jurney, I wish there was a device worn around my neck, which will cancel the sound around my head</span></span>Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-80366761908410341342008-11-29T11:54:00.016+05:302009-01-26T11:37:20.749+05:30In Memory<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">In memory of some common & uncommon people, who were at Mumbai on 26-28.11.08</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Miraj Alam</span>, 24<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Betty Alfonso</span>, 58<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Afsar Ali</span>, 21, Burwan, Murshidabad, WB, Luggage Handler at Chhatrapati Shivaji Rail Terminal, b/o Azhar Sheikh<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Amant Mohammad Ali</span>, 21<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jahir Sayyed Nasir Ali</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Satpakkam Sukat Ali</span>, 43<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mourad Amarsy</span>, 49, France, h/o Loumia Hiridjee<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Limya Amasye</span>, 42<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Murad Amasye</span>, 49<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aforaj Abbas Ansari</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arif Ansari</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meetu Anju Ansari</span>, 26<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad Ayub Abdul Ansari</span>, 21<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Murtaza Ansari</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarfaraz Ansari</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hidayatulla Anwar</span>, 23<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anand Arjungi</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tejas Arjungi</span>, 3<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad Parwez Asalam</span>, 27<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Noorul Islam Azhar</span>, 31<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ImranSubur Bagwan</span>, 29<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bajrangi</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Malayesh Banerjee</span>, Engr, IIT Kharagpur, to be married next week<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vijay Banja</span>, 48, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asha Barode</span>, 36<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Satyanand Behara</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anand Bhatt</span>, Solicitor<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Balasaheb Bhosale</span>, Asst. Police Sub Inspector, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bharat Ramchandra Bhosale</span>, 53<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ralph Burkei</span>, 51, Germany. Co-owner, C.A.M.P. TV, ex-vice-president of the TSV 1860 München football team, ex-president of the VfB Leipzig<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meera Chatterjee</span>, 60, went from Singur, WB to cheer up her son Ardhendu<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jayram Chauhan</span>, 28<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Savnath Chemburkar</span>, 46<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shaunak Chemburkar</span>, 50, Lobby Attendent, Taj Hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramesh Chervotu</span>, 41<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ajit Chhabaria</span>, h/o Monica<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monica Chhabaria</span>, w/o Ajit, hotelier & sister/o Ashish Chaudhry, actor<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Diplai Chitalkar</span>, 9<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Raju Chitalkar</span>, 8<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arun Chitte</span>, Police Constable, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">M Chowdhary</span>, Police Head Constable, R.P.F., Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bentzion Chroman</span>, US + Israel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Minakshi Sada Dani</span>, 21<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nirmaka Ponna Durai</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bapusaheb Durugade</span>, Police Sub Inspector, L.A.1, Naigaon, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Uma Garg</span>, w/o Vinod, Exexcutive Director Ispat Industries<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nivruthi Baburao Gavane</span>, 57<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sanju Husain Ghorpare</span>, 15<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Priyanka Chittaranjan Giri</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manish Goel</span>, b/o Manoj Goel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gautam Gosain</span>, 22, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nimba Shyampuri Gosavi</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Harsihbhai D Goyal</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bharat Satu Prasad Gujjar</span>, 32<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alok Gupta</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Maltidevi Madan Gupta</span>, 62<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Suryabhan Gupta</span>, 42<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vinod Gupta</span>, 36<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anil Kumar Hadkulkar</span>, 39<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lavina Harjani</span>, w/o Mohit<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mohit Harjani</span>, businesman, h/o Lavina<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kazi Hidayatullah</span>, 24, Waitor, Leoplod Café, only son. Was to be married on 15.12.08<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Loumia Hiridjee</span>, 47, founder of women's fashion brand Princesse Tam Tam, France, w/o Mourad Amarsy<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gavriel Noach Holtzberg</span>, 29, USA. Rabbi Mumbai Chabad-Lubavitch centre a k a Nariman House, h/o Rivkah, f/o Moshe, 2<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rivkah Holtzberg</span>, 28, Isreal. W/o Gavriel Noach. M/o Moshe, 2. D/o Yehudit & Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Disad Bee Ismael</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dadarao Jadav</span>, 27<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nathani Jadav</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Santosh Jadav</span>, 23<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mukesh B Jadhav</span>, Home Guard Constable, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Adhikrao Kale</span>, 38<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rajan Ishwar Kamble</span>, 50<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kaizad Kamdin</span>, 28, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashok Kamte</span>, 54, (IPS), Additional Commissioner Of Police, East Region, Mumbai</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Ashok Chakra award 26.1.2009</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Neeti Kang</span>, 38, w/o Karambir, GM, </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Samar Kang</span>, 6, d/o Karambir, GM, </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Uday Kang</span>, 12, s/o Karambir, GM, </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manoj Kanojia</span>, 36<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Santosh Kanojiya</span>, 31<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Surendra Kumar Kanojiya</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashok Kapoor</span>, Chairman, Yes Bank<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hemant Karkare</span>, (IPS), Joint Commissioner Of Police, ATS, Mumbai, f/o Akash</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Ashok Chakra award 26.1.2009</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sanjay Laxman Katar</span>, 23<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">F N Khaliluddin</span>, 53<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Firoz Khan</span>, 44<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Habibul Rahman Khan</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mumtaj Khan</span>, 28<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sahabuddin S Khan</span>, 35<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shashibhai Kharatmo</span>, 65<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Balaji Baburao Khatmole</span>, 53<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vijay Ramchandra Khot</span>, 52<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rauf Jagen Kullur</span>, 27<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashok Kumar</span>, 18<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rabindra Kumar</span>, 32, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vatsala Kurade</span>, 6<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Afrin Shadeb Kureshi</span>, 6<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ravi Jagan Kuwar</span>, 32<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prabhu Kumar Laldev</span>, 21<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andreas Dionysiou Liveras</span>, 73, Cypriot-born businessman, UK<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chandrakant Lokhande</span>, 60<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sulochana Lokhande</span>, 50<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Antonio di Lorenzo</span>, 63, Livorno, Tuscan, Italy<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Geriraj Louis</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad Mukhtar Mallik</span>, 45<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prakash Mandal</span>, 26<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Raju Pandurang Mane</span>, 35<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Douglas Markell</span>, 71, former Woollahra councillor, Australia<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Faustine Martis</span>, 47, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Zaheen Mateen</span>, 25, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sourabh Mishra</span>, 29<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Asif Babubhai Mohammad</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fakir Mohammad</span>, 38<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Praksh P More</span>, Police Sub Inspector, L.T.Marg Police Station, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Samadhan More</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arband Rego Moris</span>, 23<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramchandra Morya</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Misarilal Moryz</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Moss</span>, Physician, Julius Richardson hospital, Montreal, Canada<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ramchandra Nair</span>, 28<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gunjan V Narang</span>, 35<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bharat Shyam Narodia</span>, 20<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anil Mahadev Nirmal</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tukaram G Omble</span>, Asst. Police Sub Inspector, D.B.Marg Police Station, Mumbai</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Ashok Chakra award 26.1.2009</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visheshwar Shishupal Pacharne</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vikash Ankush Palke</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sushant Panda</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lalji Pande</span>, 54<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Harish Patel</span>, 29<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kannubhai Patel</span>, businesman<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashok Patil</span>, 49<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jaywant Patil</span>, Police Constable, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sadanand Patil</span>, 25, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sushant Patil</span>, 38<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yogesh Patil</span>, Police Constable, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Martis Pausin</span>, 50<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ambadas Pawar</span>, Police Constable, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Madhav Petkar</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rajendra Prasad</span>, 20<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nafisa Sadaf Qureshi</span>, 46<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rahamatullah</span>, 47, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aziz Nabilal Rampure</span>, 55<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roopinder Randhawa</span>, 54, Teacher B D Somani School, w/o Capt R S Randhawa of Taj Air, 2 daughters<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ravi Ranjan</span>, 26<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abdul Rashid</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Raekha Rathod</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abdul Razak</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boris de Rego</span>, 23, Junior Sous-chef, Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel, s/o Urbano de Rego alias Chef Rego, Goa<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hasibur Rehman</span>, 16, Mohammedpur, Dalkhola, N-Dinajpur, WB, mason, youngest s/o Mohammad Faizuddin & <span>Julekha Bibi</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ibrahim Abdul Rehman</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Santapalli Rehmatulla</span>, 45<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Devika Natvarlal Rotavan</span>, 10<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kanya Sahane</span>, 24<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sabina Sehgal Saikia</span>, 46, Consulting Editor, Times of India, w/o Shantanu, m/o Arundhati & Aniruddha<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abdul Salam</span>, 50<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vijay Salaskar</span>, Police Inspector, Anti Extortion Cell, Mumbai, & renouned encounter specialist</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Ashok Chakra award 26.1.2009</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Abdul Salem</span>, 52<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Niranjan Sadashiv Sardar</span>, 70<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Uttam Sasurkar</span>, 20<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shiv Savalochani</span>, 45<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rasika Krushna Sawant</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shivram Sawant</span>, 18<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan Scherr</span>, USA, f/o Naomi, h/o Kia<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Naomi Scherr</span>, USA, d/o Alan & Kia<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hemant Shadulkar</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pankaj Shah</span>, Developer<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rajan Sharif</span>, 23<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nitesh L Sharma</span>, 15<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sushilkumar V Sharma</span>, 48<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hasina Sheikh</span>, 20<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Heena Sheikh</span>, 16<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monwara Ali Sheikh</span>, 60<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mukhtar Sheikh</span>, 35<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Reema Mohammad Sheikh</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rehman Ali Sheikh</span>, 17<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shabira Majid Sheikh</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shoeb Ahmed Sheikh</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Siddiq Sheikh</span>, 35<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sohel Abdul Sheikh</span>, 5<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mohan Shinde</span>, 40<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rahul S Shinde</span>, Police Constable, S.R.P.F. Group X, Solapur, Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shashank Shinde</span>, Police Inspector, CST Railway Mumbai<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mohammad Siddique</span>, 29<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gajender Singh</span>, Havildar, National Security Guard</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, Mumbai</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Ashok Chakra award 26.1.2009</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vibhas Singh</span>, 39<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arka Lalji Solanki</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ashok Babu Sunnappa</span>, 55<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Akshay Tanaji Supekar</span>, 11<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chandulal Tandel</span>, 50<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brett Gilbert Taylor</span>, 49, co-owner of Blacktown Timber, St Marys, North Turramurra, New South Wales, Australia, h/o Paula, f/o Sally, 19 & Nicola, 16<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Leibish Teitlebaum</span>, USA, lived in Mea Shearim, Israel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sunil Thakare</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manoj Thakur</span>, 27<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hisashi Tsuda</span>, 38, businessman from Mitsui Marubeni Liquefied Gas Company based in Tokyo, Japan<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Laxman Shivaji Undhekar</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sandeep Unnikrishnan</span>, 31, Major, Team Commander National Security Guard. Only child of parents K. Unnikrishnan & Dhanaluxmi</span><span style="font-size:85%;">, <span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:lucida grande;" >Ashok Chakra award 26.1.2009</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarikha Upadhyay</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anil Sakharam Varal</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Santosh Dattaram Veer</span>, 32<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Verghese</span>, 53, of Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Annasaheb Ambu Waghmode</span>, 19<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aditya Yadav</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Babi Ashok Yadav</span>, 26<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sanjay Yadav</span>, 25<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sheetal Yadav</span>, 4 months<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shweta Yadav</span>, 24<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lo Hoei Yen</span>, 28, attorney, Singapore<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Akhilesh</span>, 22<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gautam</span>, 30<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prashant</span>, 40<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >Sources</span> : mainly<br />1. http://www.mumbaipolice.org/<br />2. <span class="helper"><a class="pnr" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outbound/domain/www.tz-online.de');" href="http://www.tz-online.de/de/aktuelles/muenchen/artikel_52275.html">www.tz-online.de</a></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> & various other WebSites<br />3. Times of India (newspaper)<br />4. Anandabazar Patrika</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> (newspaper)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:times new roman;" >Edit 26.1.2009</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">- "</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Ashok Chakra</span>", </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >India</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">’s highest peace-time gallantry award</span> was awarded to these people today 26.1.09, the 60th Republic Day</span>Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-73524216860920010712008-03-31T14:24:00.088+05:302015-10-13T13:51:09.699+05:30Sikkim, second time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ";">I</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial;">f you have read my blog <a href="http://lokenrc.blogspot.in/2014/09/sikkim-first-time.html" target="_blank">Sikkim first time</a>, then you must have reached Gangtok safely and checked-in in the hotel of your choice.That blog covers Gangtok & the surrounding areas, Namchi, Ravongla, Pelling etc. Gangtok was used as the centre of tours both in the 1st & 2nd visit to Sikkim.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ";">A</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">fter checking in the hotel of your choice in Gangtok, take a quick bath, shove a light woolen, camera, batteries etc. into a handbag and venture out. The place to go first is the</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;"> M G Marg<span style="color: black;"> (previously The Mall)</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">. After it was renovated, turned into a pleasant pedestrians’ plaza and inaugurated by the famous economist Montek Singh Ahluwala on 15.3.08, it is <i>the</i> place to linger around. You already know where to eat or may be try out some newly opened restaurant.</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "; font-size: 10;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ";">I</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">t is difficult to stop visiting Sikkim. If your doctor has detected surplus ripples in your heartbeat, if the plumbing of your blood is clogged like Calcutta drains, if your blood pressure could shame a pumping station, you make haste to ensure, that you visit Lake Gurudongmar (or Gurudogmar, 27°58'N, 88°42'E / 17,100ft or 5,148M) and come back to tell about it. Since it is near the Chinese border, you need all sorts of permits & passes, which can be obtained only through licensed travel agents. A day’s time, a photo id card like the voter’s card or passport and proof of residences. You do a market survey to find out the best option. You walk up & down M G Marg to talk to all agents big & small. Season has not really started and nobody knows if the roads are clear of ice. Helpful people point you to Blue Sky Tours & Travels, one of the oldest agencies & presently one of the best. A visit to their posh office results in nothing. They have no confirmation, if the roads are clear. You can come back after a few days. Even once the roads clear, you would need deep pockets to avail of their service. When everything seems hopeless, suddenly, you chance upon a small signboard “Galaxy”. Someone in your group recognizes the name from the monthly travel magazine “<i>Bhraman</i>” (ভ্রমন = travel), the holidaying Bengalis’ Bible. A steep, damp staircase leads down to a small office with locked glass door. An enquiry with a smart multilingual Bengali young man in the neighbouring DTP office fetches the information that the Galaxy office staff has gone to the M G Road (previously called The Mall) to witness the inauguration of the pedestrians’ plaza. He offers you a seat and makes a phone call in Nepalese and Bhutia. Presently, arrives </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Tenzing Lama of Galaxy Tours & Travels </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> 98320 44536, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">94750 12777 (you never know which of his cellphones is currently working), </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">(0359) 2320632 (residence)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">. He smiles</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7weWVhaQAHDpoNON_bZ2h_z4oGb3lYpwPV2B8Dpkn3BsBzRprz57xqtLjQ0hzxJWv7tl0o0PPPTLY42LFT9niQLsTheOh2A_PthPof9gxw_B-5KyDfnugwDevm3UZuKt1QT3-YU3EYt4/s1600/RabinKeasang.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7weWVhaQAHDpoNON_bZ2h_z4oGb3lYpwPV2B8Dpkn3BsBzRprz57xqtLjQ0hzxJWv7tl0o0PPPTLY42LFT9niQLsTheOh2A_PthPof9gxw_B-5KyDfnugwDevm3UZuKt1QT3-YU3EYt4/s1600/RabinKeasang.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></span> apologetically, unlocks the door and offers seats in a very congested but neat office. After a few minutes of talk with this earnest, short young man, you guess you are in good hands. Yes, of course he can arrange a visit. Just yesterday one driver, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Keasang Karma has returned with a reporter from New Delhi TV. We can speak to him, if we wanted. Mr Reporter turns out to be another travel mad Bengali. A few minutes phone conversation with him gives us the confirmation that we are indeed in right hands. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">What’s more, we get a ridiculously low off-season rate of Rs2,600 per head for 6 adults (and 1 child free) for 2 nights & 3 days for visits to Chungtang → Lachen (night halt) → Thangu → Lake Gurudongmar → Chopta Valley → Lachung (night halt) → Yumthang (the valley of flowers) and back to Gangtok, door to door travel, boarding, lodging and guide-cum-porter-cum-waiter-cum-helper service by a cheerful young </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim?noredirect=1#5806318357122926354" target="_blank"><span style="color: #741b47;">Rabin Rai</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">94745 29464 (left in photo). </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Keasang Karma (right in photo) will be our driver.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">C</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">an we go further to Yumesamdong Hot spring? Unlikely, but roads permitting, we have to settle the extra cost of travel up & down with the driver. Tenzing recites the standard warning that no money can be refunded, if the trip fails due to inclement weather or landslide. Getting trapped in snow is unlikely at this time. Whatever snow falls in the upper reaches will be in areas of the Indian Army cantonment and they will take care. What remains unsaid is what might happen if you get caught between 2 landslides due to heavy hill rain. It is all in the game, you have to think philosophically and increase your stock of dry food, water and cash money. That night all cellphones and rechargeable torchlights remained plugged in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ";">B</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">y</span><span lang="EN-GB"> and by we passed </span><span lang="EN-GB">Kabi Lungtsok. This historical place is 17kM. from Gangtok on the North Sikkim highway. This is where the historic treaty of blood brotherhood between the Lepcha Chief Te-Kung-Tek and the Bhutia Chief Khey-Bum-Sar was signed ritually. The spot where the ceremony took place is marked by a memorial stone pillar amidst the cover of dense forest. Rabin is an ideal guide. He had convincing answers to our innumerable curiosities, did not show off his knowledge or unnecessarily intrude into our own conversations. </span><span lang="EN-GB">At stretches not so breathtaking, we entertain ourselves by teasing </span><span lang="EN-GB">Rabin Rai. Is he related to the currently famously beautiful film star Aiswarya Rai? Certainly not, he insists. Reminds one of stories 100 years old, when public entertainers had low social status and did not make Himalaya sized heaps of money. The vehemence of denial and his expression makes us reel with laughter. Rabin turns pink. For such a handsome lad, he is unusually shy of girls, although attracting copious admiring glances from young girls in all towns we stopped at or slowed down. In known refreshment halts, the girls neglect him, obviously tired of his overly shyness. Is he scared of girls? A weak “No”. Will he ever marry? Of course he will, once his parents fix it up. It will be difficult, we point out, seeing that he is ½ Nepalese & ½ Bhutia. Even Rabin looks a little doubtful. On the other hand, somewhat older Keasang is a silent Casanova. At every halt we find him flirting with giggling girls. He would even stop at roadsides to exchange sweat pleasantries with young girls collecting water from a tap or running an errand. Yet, our respect for his competence and skill as a driver rises, especially during the death defying return journey – but that comes later.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">A</span></span>s we move towards, the land becomes less populated, but more elegant. The </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB">Sikkimese </span></span>love gardening. </span></span><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption">This modest abode is made of
recycled wooden planks & cardboard insulation collected from
scrapped packaging materials brought in by the road building teams. The
roof is made of straighten<wbr></wbr>ed tins from retired asphalt barrels. In
spite of the ice-cold water, often you will find someone washing clothes
or utensils in the nearby jhora (= minor waterfalls<wbr></wbr>). Even the most modest Sikkimese home boasts a row of flower pots. Those here will bloom in a few more days.
Fensong, North Sikkim.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">W</span></span></b>e make a short halt at Phensang to see the 7-stepped <span style="color: red;">Seven Sisters waterfall</span>. A little green bridge takes you closer to the waterfall. But then you must come back, as only 2 or 3 of the sisters are visible from ground level. The other sisters appear one by one, as you climb the hill face opposite. I hope all of you are wearing totally closed shoes. The delicate pretty leaf growing on the ground you have just stepped by is <i>bichuti</i> / বিচুটি, the vicious Indian equivalent of the poison ivy, only several times worse. If it touches the skin, it will itch for the whole day.</span></div>
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we made lunch halt at <span style="color: red;">Mansila</span>. </span><span lang="EN-GB">The modest restaurant is run by an extended
family, living in a large wooden house alongside. A 5-colour religious flag
flutters in the foreground. It depicts from top : blue for sky, while for
clouds, red for fire, green for flora, yellow for earth. A small tree with
flowers like cherry blossom stands by the road. About 100M away, a grand new
temple is being built. The owner treats you like a family member, visiting
after a long time. The food is modest but tasty and copious. The best
attraction is the youngest member of our host’s family, who arrived in her
young mother’s lap. This grave little ‘Princess of Mansila’ never smiled, but
the gaggle of her giggling teenage aunts had a great time favourably comparing
her curly hair with mine.</span></span></span></div>
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mother’s arms. She is very serious, rarely looks
up and never smiles. But she had the grace to wave us goodbye and<span style="font-size: small;">
threw us a flying kiss with her chubby hand. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The gaggle of her giggling teenage aunts had a great
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we get down at <span style="color: red;">Rang
Rang Bridge</span>
and have a closer look at yet another waterfall. There is a plaque by the side
that boasts of engineering marvel at creating this culvert on the face of a
temperamental and dangerous waterfall. It spans the run-off of the waterfall
and has a novel design. When the water flow is low, all the water rushes below
the culvert over stone steps, making it look as if Rapunzel of Grimm’s Fairy
Tales has let down a stream of white hair. When the water flow is high, large
holes in the sidewalls of the culvert allows the spill water to rush over the
road, making a car ride that much adventurous. The area could rouse a
geologist’s interest. The hills were reddish brown like the Martian surface,
but the pieces of stone broken and thrown down by the waterfall are <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim?noredirect=1#5806320579009218274" target="_blank">black and twinkling with mica</a>. Rabin assures us, that we can have a good shot at the
waterfall during our return journey. It is true. The waterfall really showed
off its splendour, while we could see it from a distant mountain bend. But the
sun moving across the horizon cast a speeding shadow of the hills, moving too
fast for us. When we reached a good spot, the direct sunlight was gone</span>.</span></div>
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Mangan, Singiek, Theng (or Toong) and by afternoon arrive at <span style="color: red;">Chunthang</span> (<i>chung</i> = nice, <i>thang </i>= place) on the confluence of Lachen and Lachung Chu (<i>Chu</i> = river) and the starting point of
River Teesta, a pretty hilly small square of shops, surrounded by a few modest
houses, 95kM from Gangtok. The lilies and orchids carelessly spread about are
spectacular. A serene looking elderly woman sat quietly on the steps of a shop,
knitting something.</span></span></span></div>
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permission to photograph : (1) the expression on her face of being
completely at peace with the world, just like the Tibetan sentence to
her right, (2) the way she wore the wool like a bangle on her left arm. I
guess, if one keeps the wool in a ball as usual, if it accidental<wbr></wbr>ly falls from lap, it will immediatel<wbr></wbr>y
roll down this very sloppy country to reach the next village before it
unwinds & stops. An extremely pretty looking granddaugh<wbr></wbr>ter hovered over her, but you have to visit </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">the place to see this
Chunthang beauty. After a short tea halt, the drive ends at chilly Lachen, </span><span lang="EN-GB">2,750M</span><span lang="EN-GB"> (9,022ft).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>W</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">all décor</span></span> :</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"> D</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">eeper into Sikkim, boarding & lodging get progressively more modest, but also more personal & homely. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Bayul Inn</span><span lang="EN-GB"> at <span style="color: red;">Lachen</span> is a typical example. In general, the food is quite good and in keeping with the normal taste of Bengalis, the overwhelming bulk of tourists. I am sure, they alter the menu in keeping with the type of tourists they get – be it North, South or West Indians or foreigners like Europeans, Americans or Australians. Africans don’t seem to like Sikkim. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">All dishes at lunch and dinner were
liberally sprinkled with coriander leaves. It was not their fault that I
am an imperfect Bengali in the matter of coriander. After my first
dinner, my simple solution was to replace the balance 5 lunches
& dinners with cups of tea with 3 or 4 biscuits. I shall tell
you the result later.</span></span>All dishes at lunch and dinner were liberally sprinkled with coriander leaves. It was not their fault that I am an imperfect Bengali in the matter of coriander leaves. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lokenrc/2366315197/" title="photo sharing"><img alt="" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3049/2366315197_11702a29c6_m.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" /></a>After my first dinner, my simple solution was to replace the balance 5 lunches & dinners with cups of tea with 3 or 4 biscuits. I shall tell you the result later. The owners, a devoutly religious family like most Sikkimese, have a chapel like room in their house, just behind the hotel. Buddha was kept in suitable reverence and worships took place periodically, daily with the accompaniment of softly playing drums, cymbals and with lamps and burning of a special type of juniper. At night, as you come out of the dark front door of the inn, you instinctively put your hand on the sidewalls, lest you tumble down unseen steps. Your hand touches something strange, bringing back a feeling, which gurgles out of the depth of your childhood memory. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">Rabin
rushed off for a short break to visit his relatives. In these distant
cold, steep hills he is in his home element. His springy steps say so,
as he almost flies down the road. </span></span></span></div>
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up call on the day to Gurudongmar is at 4:30 am. By 5:00, the car
should start. Rising too early, everybody has an inadequate morning
motion and suffers later. Our pilot & co-pilot overslept a
little, so we start at 5:30. The snow line is already visible. The car
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way to Gurudongmar, there is a compulsory halt for an hour at <span style="color: red;">Thangu</span>,
4,115M (13,500ft). Although this made us restless at that time, only
after returning we realized how essential it was to acclimatize us to
5,148M (17,100ft) at Gurudongmar.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB">Breakfast was served. Sliced white
bread, freshly cut banana and apples came in a hamper. After a first
bite, we realized everything was steamed. It was clarified, that toasted
bread wilts fast and fruits nearly freeze unless served like this. TV
cooking classes show Western dishes made with steamed apples. Wonder how
many Indians had the misfortune of trying one. We are hungry. Hunger
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">L</span></span></b>eaving Chopta Valley for our return journey the car passed by army check post Giagong Café and reached Gurudongmar. The scanty rainfall leaves the hillsides striped black & white with snow so, they look like large zebras.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption">Winds play with snow drifts and make this spiky mound</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">T</span></span></b>his morning the pulse was running 20% faster than at in the plains, at Thangu it rose to 25% and now at 5,148M Gurudongmar is was racing at 200%. Took it for granted, that the system was trying to make up for thin air, thus low oxygen. One feels nothing strange until one gets out of the car and stands on ones own feet. Everybody looks at the ladies & gents toilette. Both locked. The under-pressure at this altitude seems to drag out the bowl contents, which did not make a proper exit this early morning. Some could defer the output to a more suitable time and occasion. Some could not and rushed to the backside of the toilettes. The temperature is freezing most of the year, but rainfall is low. So, whatever was left behind at the toilettes remains undisturbed for the posterity, unless blown away. The wind is said to be so strong, that it drives off pebbles. Some of its strange wind on ice architecture can be seen alongside the roads.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption">The frozen <span style="color: red;">Gurudongmar<span style="color: black;"> Lake</span></span> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="gphoto-photocaption-caption"> (or Gurudogmar) </span></span>has a small nice glacier at one end and rocky bare earth all around</span></span><br />
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in late February and continues up to mid June, when thousands of colourful
flowers are in full bloom. But this is what was in our fate to see in March
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Keasang Karms, but for whose skill & experience </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">we could not have returned in 1 piece each, after the terrifying & dangerous drive back from </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yumthang </span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span>to Gangtok. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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all the Indian hilly states, the theft of forest resources in probably
the minimum in Sikkim. Fed by the rich southeastern monsoon, it grows
lush. The dense net of elaborate root system of trees and shrubs hold up
the soil and stones of the unstable Himalayan slopes. The turn the soil
into a giant sponge, which soaks up the heavy monsoon rain and allows
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you are in big cities or anywhere in the so-called “cow belt” of India
(except the depths of Himachal Pradesh), your nerves stick out a
centimetre from your skin to act as early warning system against pick
pockets, thieves, touts, taxi drivers etc. Steeped in Buddhist culture,
the Sikkimese are people of peaceful, honest & friendly nature.
They abide by the Indian dictum “the guest is god”. You acquire a sense
of security. Deep inside Sikkim, nobody covets your camera. If you have
left your bag in the car, the driver will return it to you during his
return trip. Slowly your nerve ends sink back and all your self defence
can be redeployed from menace of man to onslaught of nature, especially
if you are traveling in 2<sup>nd</sup> autumn<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[i]</span></a> or winter.</span></span></div>
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had spent a couple of days in this getaway in the 1920s. Rabindranath Smriti
Bhawan, the house where the poet stayed and enjoyed the scenic view of the
Himalayas, is just 2 km from Rinchenpong bazaar. It is a major tourist draw and
has been maintained well. The varied flora made us forget our disappointment at
frozen <span style="color: black;">Yumthang.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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junction of 3 hills, this place of worship was built about 2 centuries ago by a
local Lepcha and is still under private supervision. The place is said to offer
an excellent view of the sunrise from behind the Kanchenjunga.</span></span></span></span></div>
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stone and wood construction, which came up in 1860, was used to host the
British governor, a regular visitor. In the semi-darkness, the interiors reveal mufti-cultural influences, including wall paintings and wood carvings of the
traditional Tibetan school. More eye catching was a huge heap of ginger stacked
against a wall. In the harvesting season, this seems to be the main store for
wholesalers to come and buy.</span></span></span></span></div>
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monasteries of Sikkim, the Gey-Sanga-Yangtze Gumpha houses a statue of Ati
Buddha with a woman sitting on his lap and embracing him. It is an icon of the
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">come to ease. About an hour later, the woman comes back. She is
a friend of the boy’s mother as well as his class teacher, she explains in
fluent English. She was coming shopping to town from her village. The boy
insisted on tagging along. Only in Sikkim can anybody dare to leave such a
small boy waiting alone in a taxi stand. Notwithstanding his undeserved
punishment, the boy smiles and starts talking animatedly pointing at me. The
teacher laughs. “He wants to know, how he can get curly hair like you”. I am
surprised – it is the third time I hear such wish in Sikkim. The way we admire
their neat, straight hair, they seem to crave ours.</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #339966;"></span></b></span></span></div>
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snail’s pace. We while away the time tasting savouries from the surrounding
shops. Nothing to write back home about. <span style="color: black;">The hour
produces the said taxi, piled with empty milk cans and a full gunny sack on the
roof. The ever smiling driver is more anxious to pick us up, than we are to
board this last car of the day. Apparently, our Ravongla hotel manager has
pulled strings. On the return journey, the driver renders free social service by
making small detours to deliver the milk cans, the sack, wads of letters &
money to villagers. In an area, where landslides & other natural calamities
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looms up. The driver says not to worry, as the earth is reasonably flat &
compact. We zigzag a bit and reach Ravongla. The driver delivers up to Hotel
Ravangla Star, Kwezing Road, Ravangla, (03595) 260 733, Managers 94341 37176
& 97330 50036. We occupy the de-luxe (best) room # 105 @ Rs600, boarding
only. Manger Mr Roy, at whose repeated request we make this second visit
receives us with ceremony and introduces us to his wife and his daughter. At
night, he invites us to a drink & dinner party, hosted by him. The usual </span><span lang="BN" style="color: black;">আড্ডা / </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">adda </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">starts. There are 2 room heaters
in full blast. As the night deepens, the embracing cold seems to strangle us.
Yet, we the tourists fresh from the warm plain land suffer less than the young
girl fresh from her college in cold UK. The bad news is that Mr Roy wants to
sell this hotel, if he succeeds in a negotiation to buy a more lucrative one in
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Chung</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> = nice</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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e.g. Nathu La</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tashi Delek / </span><span lang="BN" style="color: black; font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">তাশি দেলেক</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: BN;"> =<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: BN;">all encompassing
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e.g. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Chunthang
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<i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Vrinda; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-language: BN;">In Nepalese</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Same place,
different spellings,</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Keozing / Sosing /
Kewzing</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rabong / Rabangla /
Ravongla / Ravangla</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This blog is based
on our trips in October 2006 and March 2008. Rates, hotels, telephone nos. etc.
need recheck, if indeed they are valid. To give an idea, here is the analysis
of the costs for 2 adults that we incurred during our visit in 2006.</span></div>
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<tbody>
<tr style="height: 14.25pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">
<td nowrap="" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Date</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Details</span></b></div>
</td>
<td colspan="4" nowrap="" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 136.45pt;" width="182"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rs</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Travel</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hotel</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Food</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Others</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">9.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New Orchid, Gangtok 5-8
Oct</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,640</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">377</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,100</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NaamSaaling Res, 11-14
Oct</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,640</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">164</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">11.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ravongla Star, 9-10 Oct</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,320</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">390</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">4.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Train : Sealdah to NJP
2nd A/c</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,698</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">12.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Simvo Tour & Travels</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,400</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Train : NJP to Sealdah
3rd A/c</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,228</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tea, cheese</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,100</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cook's Inn</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">681</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">23.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Print films</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">600</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pelling to Siliguri 3
seats</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">500</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">19.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Print films</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">400</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">5.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sikkim Nationalised
Transport</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">260</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gangtok Zoo</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">200</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">45</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">11.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ravongla to Pelling</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">220</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taste of Tibet</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">150</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tibetan chanting CD</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">150</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Orthodox, 2nd flr</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">150</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bread, cheese, passion
flower juice</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">130</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Local trips at Siliguri</span></div>
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<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">120</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">4.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taxi to Sealdah</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Damodar Ropeways</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taxi to residence</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Passion flower juice</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">60</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">5.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rickshaw NJP to Siliguri</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">50</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rock Garden, near Namchi</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">30</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td nowrap="" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Flower Exihibition Cetre,
Whitehall</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"></td>
<td nowrap="" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"></td>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13,996</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5,876</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3,960</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,825</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,335</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">41.98</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">28.29</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">20.18</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9.54</span></i></div>
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Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-66006040102253616072007-12-29T22:39:00.015+05:302010-11-24T22:50:00.290+05:30Lunch at Taki<span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >The gang :</span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" > Ajay (Ajaymama) & Margerata Bhattacharyya</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" > Usha Rani (Boromaima) Bhattacharyya</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" > Protima (Mejomashi) & Sugata (Bapi) Chakraborty</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" > Maitreyi (Mitu), Madhuparna (Bumpy) & </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" >Aparajita (Rumpa) Choudhury<br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" >Sandipan (Pimpu), Esha (Mamni) & Soumwa (Tokai) Mukherjee</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" > Lokendra Nath & Chitrita (Pinkie) Roychoudhury<br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5148326985900782706"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/lokenrc/R3KIHd4sdHI/AAAAAAAAAI4/Dl3trabOuEE/s400/071202_150722.jpg" /></a><br /></span><img src="file:///C:/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /> <span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >D</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >estination :</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12px;"><span style=""> </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >At </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span lang="EN-GB">22.59ºN, 88.92ºE Taki is the erstwhile capital city of an old and defunct Kingdom of Taki. It is presently a municipality under Hasnabad police station, Basirhat subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, India. It is separated from Bangladesh by the River Ichhamati.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Day</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10px;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="font-size:85%;"> :</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Sunday 2.12.07</span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >T</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >he idea :</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10px;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">It was Ajaymama’s brain wave to spend a day out, somewhere not too close to Calcutta, have lunch, a little site-seeing & back, to celebrate the 25<sup>th</sup> Wedding Anniversary of Loken & Pinkie. As ideas go, this turned out to be a resounding success, with a few glitches thrown in, to make the trip memorable. </span></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" >The actual logistics was courtesy Mejomashi. Navigators on the road were Pimpu and Bapi.</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxX1sdOCq7cLGyUuYkv9v07B-wa6HNB8LB7UEx6WeaVM0Knze8-KMQ9mY_ZkLohMQ901RBGadzOvSuTK6D7FPEzNJi7z_I1XkArBFt_w81ohkO30novUPT-7kzggG9qflebljvdURcVx8/s1600-h/Taki3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 494px; height: 152px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxX1sdOCq7cLGyUuYkv9v07B-wa6HNB8LB7UEx6WeaVM0Knze8-KMQ9mY_ZkLohMQ901RBGadzOvSuTK6D7FPEzNJi7z_I1XkArBFt_w81ohkO30novUPT-7kzggG9qflebljvdURcVx8/s320/Taki3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5149444510621398242" border="0" /></a> <span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >T</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >he journeys :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">This was one of those rare trips, where from the beginning the journey started pleasantly. We assembled at Mejomashi’s house at Salt Lake or Bidhannagar. Bimal was hired with his 20 seater (for school children) bus for the 12½ of us. So, it was quite spacious. We took off at about 10:15, travelling southward along the E M Bypass, passed Science City turned left to take the road to Bantala, Basanti etc. just by the P C Chandra Park, along road no. 3 (see map). As it turned out, the road was narrow, but unusually good for a Bengal village road. It was decidedly far better than the congested & pot-holed road no. 2, via Madhyamgram, Barasat, Dhanyakuriya, Basirhat etc., which is the normal road. Barely had we passed the outskirts of Calcutta, passed by drains carrying stinking effluents from leather factories, were we in pristine village area, dotted by crowded little market places at long intervals. By & by we passed by Bantala Leather Complex, Bhojerhat, Kajirhat, Narayanpur, Bhangor, Ghatakpukur, Chandipur, Ghushighat, Kancahanpukur, Shis, Minakhña, Kalitola, Malancha Bazar / Trimali, Nimich, Bhebia Bazar, Murari Shah Choumathha, Habaspur, Makhalagachha, Kumarpukur, Talpukur Bazar, New Thhuba Rail Gate, Thhuba and finally to Taki.</span></span></span><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> On the way, we were intrigued by a number of strange vehicles. Basically, they were large tricycles, whose front is the frame and engine of a motorcycle, while the rear was a flat bed made of slatted wood. As a vehicle, it is as universal as possible. So, we came across one carrying a huge pile of hay, one with mounds of freshly cut ripe rice plants, one with several goats, one with plastic pails, even one acting as a passenger bus, albeit without hood or walls.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" > While coming back, local public pointed us to the usual road, not the one which we came by. After travelling some distance, we quickly got lost. Soon darkness fell and we were literally in the dark. Guided by passers-by, we zigzagged vaguely towards home. In village after village, I noticed the faithful in their evening namaz prayer. Since they faced west, we were assured that we were indeed travelling west towards Calcutta.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >T</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204); font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >he place :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A room was booked for us at Nripendra Atithishala (= guest house). It belongs to Taki Municipality. It turned out to be in the 1</span><sup style="font-family: arial;">st</sup><span style="font-family:arial;"> floor. Boromaima, always game, climbed up with some assistance. But this room was without a view to the River Ichhamati, flowing just behind the house and dividing India from Bangladesh. Ajayamama then booked another room in the 2</span><sup style="font-family: arial;">nd</sup><span style="font-family:arial;"> floor, which had a balcony with a beautiful view to the river & to Bangladesh visible through the haze across the water. River Ichhamati was in ebb, when we arrived. Long procession of water hyacinths made their journey towards the Bay of Bengal. This procession changed their mind at midday, when they started to turn back and move upstream as the tide turned.</span></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > <span style="" lang="EN-GB"> Around midday, a large and noisy group of teenage boys and girls materialized from nowhere, most probably from Calcutta. They were lured by the boatmen to take pleasure boat trips in the Ichhamati. The way they carelessly piled too many to each rickety boat, it would be a surprise, if they did not overturn a boat or two.</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5148326994490717346"></a><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5148326994490717346"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/lokenrc/R3KIH94sdKI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/EYmt5DH-YpY/s400/Taki1.jpg" /></a></span><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> <span lang="EN-GB">Left & middle :<span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Garden view</span></span></span><br /></div><span lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span> Right :<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Peddlers of the famous Bashirhat towels</span></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" >During our perambulation along the banks of the Ichhamati we came across a shy young man playing a soulful tune in a flute. The tune had a deep village soul. A sample of the tune was recorded and carried back with us. I remembered, when 20 years earlier Pinkie & I came here first, a tall, elderly beggar playing the same tune in the local train. Surprisingly, he was playing the flute through his nose. On hearing this, this young man suddenly became very nostalgic and explained, that beggar is actually his impetus. It is sad, that such rural talents never get the recognition they deserve for keeping native music alive. The young man claimed to be available at the steamer wharf daily from 4:00 to 8:00 pm. I wish some talent hunter would discover him one day to have his music recorded and given proper circulation.<br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" lang="EN-GB" ><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5148326994490717346"></a><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5148326998785684658"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/lokenrc/R3KIIN4sdLI/AAAAAAAAAJY/NfUAJGjhiPE/s400/Taki2.jpg" /></a></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Left :<span style=""> </span>Pinkie in dance pose in the courtyard</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Middle :<span style=""> </span>Margareta & Ajaymama, after we settled Boromaima in the 2<sup>nd</sup> floor</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10px;" lang="EN-GB" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Right : </span>The photographer (me, at left)</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-GB">……....<br /></span></i></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Photo by Ajaymama<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5148329794809394370"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/lokenrc/R3KKq94sdMI/AAAAAAAAAJg/RhR47fRv6kE/s400/071202_134554.jpg" /></a></span></span></i></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/R3aDV94sdRI/AAAAAAAAAKI/kJ6y2xbhDsU/s1600-h/071202_134554.jpg"></a> <p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB">View of the Guest House garden. Bangladesh across the Ichhamati River.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 36pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Rumpa was in for a surprise, when she received an SMS in her cellphone, “Dear Airtel, Delhi customer, welcome to Airtel, Bangladesh. Call rates to India are Rs26, to Bangladesh Rs16 per min. SMS Rs8. For assistance contact …”. We discovered, that towers in Bangladesh were much closer, so Taki population never use cellphone, as all calls become international calls, with appropriate high rates. Fortunately I was carrying my cellphone with BSNL connection, which has no presence in Bangladesh. So, I could talk home without international rates of call.</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:180%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:times new roman;">Boarding & Lodging :</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-family:arial;">We stayed at Nripendra Atithishala, Taki Municipality, office </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;color:gray;" lang="EN-GB">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;"> (03217 or 95217) 234 481, Guest House is at Taki Uttar Bari, P O Taki, N24 Parganas, WB, </span><span style=";font-family:arial;color:gray;" lang="EN-GB">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;"> (03217 or 95) 233 248. River facing rooms are available at ground, 1<sup>st</sup> or 2<sup>nd</sup> floor at rising rates. Some rooms in each floor are with individual balconies, of which some of them are river facing. My recommendation is a 2<sup>nd</sup> floor room with river facing balcony.</span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span lang="EN-GB"> Just next to the Guest House, there is a brand new hotel called Suhasini Guest House, Taki Uttar Bari, P O Taki, N24 Parganas, WB, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:gray;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB"> (03217) 325 493, (953217) 234 108, </span><span lang="EN-GB"> 093308 26779. Bookings can be made by paying advance money to the Suhasini Guest House, Taki or their Calcutta agents Mr P K Chaudhury, Netajinagar </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:gray;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB"> 93310<span style=""> </span>26585 or Mrs Swaswati Biswas, Kalindi, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:gray;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB"> 93393 75915. Local report says, it is much better both for </span></span><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Boarding & Lodging. It has deep covered balconies in each floor. However, the balcony is common for all rooms, thus you may find inquisitive souls peeping into your room from the balcony-side window.<br /><br /></span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:180%;" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:times new roman;">Other modes of visit :</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="font-family:arial;">Train : Sealdah -> Barasat -> Taki. Bus : Esplanade, Calcutta or Barasat, N24 Parganas Bus Terminus -> Hasnabad route to Thuba Bus Stop, Taki, then rickshaw /</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">van rickshaw. If you are enthusiastic, you can consider the alternative routes too.</span></span></span></div></div>Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-56438371963188638762007-09-10T21:31:00.002+05:302008-09-04T01:12:58.327+05:30Visit to Udagamandalam<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtDr0j0O1xYya2ZYYczZC6CAZgxKBPTSBrOjTMOU9rLmgzDhQfL7M2hUx1rcbxQoxcM3YC7S1varE9Yw-4QRJKMsPOtCd-KcZPOg2DHG8bgrZHQ2jAh7XhGTDC6HKKw-XSLrxQqZRGtJF/s1600-h/051123_154126.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtDr0j0O1xYya2ZYYczZC6CAZgxKBPTSBrOjTMOU9rLmgzDhQfL7M2hUx1rcbxQoxcM3YC7S1varE9Yw-4QRJKMsPOtCd-KcZPOg2DHG8bgrZHQ2jAh7XhGTDC6HKKw-XSLrxQqZRGtJF/s320/051123_154126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108608627379375730" border="0" /></a><span lang="EN-GB"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; line-height: 12pt;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[endif]--></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">D</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">estination :</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12;"> </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Ooty (present name Udagamandalam), Nilgiri, Tamil Nadu<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -72pt;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Departure<span lang="EN-GB"> :<span style=""> </span>Sunday 20.11.2005, 2000 hrs by Yaswantpur Express to Yaswantpur, Bangalore at 1030 hrs on 22.11.05</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:20;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Return<span lang="EN-GB"> :<span style=""> </span>Sunday 27.11.2005, 1520 hrs by Coromoandal Express</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">P</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">articipants : </span></b><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span lang="EN-GB">A dozen from the B E College gang</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuVstuNxjoI/AAAAAAAAAEw/bKAjVh5j3q4/s1600-h/Clock+Tower.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuVstuNxjoI/AAAAAAAAAEw/bKAjVh5j3q4/s320/Clock+Tower.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108608885077413506" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr align="center"><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/j9-0Sqog7L4ejpXXye5EAw?authkey=83uwCNTZFug"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/lokenrc/RuUFN-NxjXI/AAAAAAAAACo/sU1Rbn66neA/s288/Clock%20Tower.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise?authkey=83uwCNTZFug">Idle brain's paradise</a></td></tr></tbody></table></span><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">T</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">he journey :</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >This was one of those rare trips, where from the beginning the journey started pleasantly. We found our places in the train and settled down for a 2-night trip, the longest so far. Next morning, it was clear, that we have left North India and have entered the more civilized South. The people were more polite and considerate, there were no signs of the aggressively obnoxious North Indians. Loken even had a tough time to find a claimant for a Rs1 coin he found lying on the floor. By about 15:40, we crossed the 3kM wide river Godavari. The scenery changed form Tal trees to sugarcane fields, date palms and huts with roof of Tal leaves. All railway stations major and minor were exceptionally clean.</span></span> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">The morning thereafter, we reached Yaswantpur, a railway station at the outskirts of the fast expanding Bangalore city. We collected Chitrita, who had split from her College excursion trip and came to Yaswantpur from Salem. She was sitting in a far platform. It was only by the strength of <i>palwan</i> Tulai, that her bag, containg a quintal stones from half of the hills could be carried to the platform of our arrival.</span></span><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuVti-NxjpI/AAAAAAAAAE4/JSR5hxil_Po/s1600-h/Clipboard+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuVti-NxjpI/AAAAAAAAAE4/JSR5hxil_Po/s320/Clipboard+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108609799905447570" border="0" /></a> <p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">T</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">he place :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >By far the best boarding & lodging we ever enjoyed in all our trips.</span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRILGfSut0tF92rtqIU53J8vAgorqxmAfmQGDaYTHHVmQxdTSRAyrphi0Gv5tnl9rf4EQqSrjjkLTWAtYSN8l3vK9ZWQEQl9YsdaJfqYUI4imn8EYXB8Ke3eJ4uMLvoaq_qZtwJ4r0FSxL/s1600-h/Clipboard+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRILGfSut0tF92rtqIU53J8vAgorqxmAfmQGDaYTHHVmQxdTSRAyrphi0Gv5tnl9rf4EQqSrjjkLTWAtYSN8l3vK9ZWQEQl9YsdaJfqYUI4imn8EYXB8Ke3eJ4uMLvoaq_qZtwJ4r0FSxL/s320/Clipboard+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108951417309204338" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoBodyText"> </p> <div align="center"> <table style="width: 317px; margin-left: 27.15pt; border-collapse: collapse; height: 20px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 51.92%;font-family:arial;" width="51%"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">Lawley Institute 19 13<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 48.08%;font-family:arial;" width="48%"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;">The Gang<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p class="MsoBodyText"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuakQeNxj4I/AAAAAAAAAGw/6FH0-JMpZf4/s1600-h/Clipboard+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuakQeNxj4I/AAAAAAAAAGw/6FH0-JMpZf4/s320/Clipboard+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108951430194106242" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p><div align="center" style="font-family:arial;"> <table style="width: 364px; margin-left: 27.15pt; border-collapse: collapse; height: 40px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="height: 14.55pt;"> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 42.4%; height: 14.55pt;font-family:arial;" width="42%"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Moss grows lush in this high, humid hills<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 57.6%; height: 14.55pt;font-family:arial;" width="57%"> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Indoor </span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">"<span style="font-style: italic;">adda</span>" in a rainy day<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">T</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">he person :</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >The one person, who single handed made our visit comfortable and memorable was Mr Krishnan, the local head of Nara’s Co. He was considerate and helped us in more ways than we could imagine, even going to the extent of acquiring a number of umbrellas for us, so that we could brave the rain and move about on foot.<br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1k-HMlVGbYp43WgaIBcvd96JH6XleJzw92U7_jVoMBpHUye1-TSQexNb-Xwe56cO_LD1DrwYWNvkDtI5olVf7F1r2Hf6AJpoO2j2mAoP36rOENaST3_yPJIwLrWKYtiotiy_LxXVULlNE/s1600-h/Clipboard+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1k-HMlVGbYp43WgaIBcvd96JH6XleJzw92U7_jVoMBpHUye1-TSQexNb-Xwe56cO_LD1DrwYWNvkDtI5olVf7F1r2Hf6AJpoO2j2mAoP36rOENaST3_yPJIwLrWKYtiotiy_LxXVULlNE/s320/Clipboard+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108951438784040850" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuWPR-NxjyI/AAAAAAAAAGA/Ug6ZuAoueBE/s1600-h/Clipboard+4.jpg"></a> <div align="center"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 376px; height: 40px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 61.72%;font-family:arial;" width="61%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">N</span>ara & Krishnan our organizers<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 38.28%;font-family:arial;" width="38%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="">Hi! Says hero # 1</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuakReNxj6I/AAAAAAAAAHA/Eq_5ezA-leo/s1600-h/Clipboard+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_zjEnS_lI07Q/RuakReNxj6I/AAAAAAAAAHA/Eq_5ezA-leo/s320/Clipboard+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108951447373975458" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Ea0BfMZvjlfIABlA4RWUoz6NOvtJQEznjqUNVrHkFHjW-f4-keSYdyewvZ16aQT6k-0hPSAVuJU2DF2APUE7g5Lvwfo8p8M6sMlvhhF5kpPWPZY9sywSBjudKl3xiQ_S12cC_MZ3lXws/s1600-h/Clipboard+5.jpg"></a> <div align="center"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 334px; height: 35px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 50%;font-family:arial;" width="50%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Outside of hotel of hero # 2<br />filmstar Mithun Chakraborty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 50%;font-family:arial;" width="50%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Inside of hotel of hero # 2<br />filmstar Mithun Chakraborty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div><br /><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">H</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">ither & thither :</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Tahoma;"><o:p></o:p></span></b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Disregarding the rain, we hired a bus for sight seeing trips.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1JTb1fgm5Mm9f2a5K-kuhBHvu26w6B7-bygPXZAWl2eXKl1TreSPQ16fPouqAo3c4p4CkPoeJlnlTbxhl3_RXmEGETDK1elXEBC9XaMfiSt19Cj6eJG4EoGj3gu9UVNFGOI2paGaGP50/s1600-h/Clipboard+6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1JTb1fgm5Mm9f2a5K-kuhBHvu26w6B7-bygPXZAWl2eXKl1TreSPQ16fPouqAo3c4p4CkPoeJlnlTbxhl3_RXmEGETDK1elXEBC9XaMfiSt19Cj6eJG4EoGj3gu9UVNFGOI2paGaGP50/s320/Clipboard+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108951455963910066" border="0" /></a></p> <div align="center"> <table style="width: 314px; border-collapse: collapse; height: 49px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 31.72%;font-family:arial;" width="31%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Chh</span><span style="">ñ</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">eiya Chh</span><span style="">ñ</span><span style="" lang="EN-GB">eyia railway line<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 33.16%;font-family:arial;" width="33%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Train to Kunoor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 35.12%;font-family:arial;" width="35%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Outing on a rainy day<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >On 25.11.05, the rain having practically stopped, we trooped into the Botanical Garden, a stones throw from our rooms. Compared with the sprawling and totally neglected Botanical Garden at Howrah, next to our College Campus, this one did not boast so many varieties of trees, but inspite of its smaller size and fewer collections, whatever it had was displayed in lovingly maintained, neat and elegant fashion. It was a pleasure to roam around. The pleasure was for an entry fee : Rs5 per child, Rs10 per adult, Rs30 per still camera and Rs500 per video camera. On enquiring about this high fee for video, we were told an intriguing tale. It seems, the film or ad industry people surreptitious shoot film sequences using the background of the Botanical Garden for commercial profit, but did not pay any utilization fee.</span></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmxcqEu_Icc2haQV6xaJCFjRsbqLb2RJ_qbSV4iorjy0IbYJ7t7uH5cFIYIg5cPQDss4R3P87f-r0YWlGLttFl8l_-B9UvLXGGfQkZohPyxvo_hRzd5jLmDsBuGAqxX1Mq16rq9M33joS/s1600-h/Clipboard+7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmxcqEu_Icc2haQV6xaJCFjRsbqLb2RJ_qbSV4iorjy0IbYJ7t7uH5cFIYIg5cPQDss4R3P87f-r0YWlGLttFl8l_-B9UvLXGGfQkZohPyxvo_hRzd5jLmDsBuGAqxX1Mq16rq9M33joS/s320/Clipboard+7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108952697209458626" border="0" /></a> <div align="center"> <table style="width: 334px; margin-left: 40.85pt; border-collapse: collapse; height: 29px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 32%;font-family:arial;" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The astounding thread flowers<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 29.8%;font-family:arial;" width="29%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Hydrangea at Botanics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 38.2%;font-family:arial;" width="38%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Lily at Botanics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-bo3MNOd-XP_AXpa6bb5dbGxBlTpdZAlRTfunfJ2MssfhvkkwXIbsotbksdqLGupy_E6vf5fnJ3s-A8i1QM_adkF7rJK_xwBTD5Pj6x3kP6RDhKwYDkaVVAKIj3vr0M8-ZrRVnT93Z4va/s1600-h/Clipboard+8.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-bo3MNOd-XP_AXpa6bb5dbGxBlTpdZAlRTfunfJ2MssfhvkkwXIbsotbksdqLGupy_E6vf5fnJ3s-A8i1QM_adkF7rJK_xwBTD5Pj6x3kP6RDhKwYDkaVVAKIj3vr0M8-ZrRVnT93Z4va/s320/Clipboard+8.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108952757339000786" border="0" /></a> <div align="center" style="font-family:arial;"> <table style="width: 366px; margin-left: 40.85pt; border-collapse: collapse; height: 33px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 32%;font-family:arial;" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Lunch on banana leaf<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 29.8%;font-family:arial;" width="29%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Delicious evening snack<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 38.2%;font-family:arial;" width="38%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Part of breakfast<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIVU2OD6LJXBXLLWQzjm4PLzq2b-uesBNa7b_UBYuGBVXzHFXxuKz9Tc0DBC1_0t0kaIz5Zem-F5GhEGM9ILWn5VbjqG-h_CWzntBFb8AqJfqzPNq4rqLaecbqntdcU5sw9uF7mFYXeRs/s1600-h/Clipboard+9.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioIVU2OD6LJXBXLLWQzjm4PLzq2b-uesBNa7b_UBYuGBVXzHFXxuKz9Tc0DBC1_0t0kaIz5Zem-F5GhEGM9ILWn5VbjqG-h_CWzntBFb8AqJfqzPNq4rqLaecbqntdcU5sw9uF7mFYXeRs/s320/Clipboard+9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108952761633968098" border="0" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <div align="center"> <table style="width: 352px; margin-left: 40.85pt; border-collapse: collapse; height: 32px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 32%;font-family:arial;" width="32%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The Governer’s house<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 29.8%;font-family:arial;" width="29%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The Governer’s drawing room<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 38.2%;font-family:arial;" width="38%"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">A traditional Toda (tribal) hut<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">R</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">eturn journey :</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >We had some time to kill at Mettupallayam Rly Stn, waiting for the Nilgiri Express to be put to the platform. It started raining. A local train came and terminated at this station. We spent the time, loudly teaching ourselves the Tamil script, by reading the nameplates on the local train, in English and Tamil, much to the amusement of local co-passengers. By and by, we discovered, that the name of the place, as spelt in Tamil is actually Mett-Upallayam.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:18;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">W</span></b><b><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:12;color:fuchsia;" lang="EN-GB">here do we go next :</span></b></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhGt_v4rg58FducVJnRh8mpY9_LlFXf5mEadvb2zkn4qgN7seOI_LzrByLUtcZIO8CusznPqj7k-lQ2UMT6yv-5xihUJldVLxk55UnRugy7M1SEjaWR2YOpqx0sTxwNKVdMYIXYGUtb5WL/s1600-h/Clipboard+10.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhGt_v4rg58FducVJnRh8mpY9_LlFXf5mEadvb2zkn4qgN7seOI_LzrByLUtcZIO8CusznPqj7k-lQ2UMT6yv-5xihUJldVLxk55UnRugy7M1SEjaWR2YOpqx0sTxwNKVdMYIXYGUtb5WL/s320/Clipboard+10.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108952774518870002" border="0" /></a><span lang="EN-GB"> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span> <div align="center"> <table style="width: 348px; border-collapse: collapse; height: 22px;" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 222.75pt;font-family:arial;" width="297"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Rosenheim, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> <td style="padding: 0mm 5.4pt; width: 227.1pt;font-family:arial;" width="303"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Sydney Opera<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </div>Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-83371589026675864532007-03-20T00:23:00.001+05:302008-08-14T11:03:01.940+05:30Kite of Calcutta<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkBRHPrjou9ks_ojNeIAfVqum8eHiRCJqQkb0WUH1PuP8VaFGhlBLxwVxW-Sf5wypPu2aAn4kareMC3suGduTnBWnAAm9iwxJg5yrZNux1mdwiyMin5Z29hNt2f9YAwEdqaYkdU3M2Qh4/s1600-h/Chil02.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkBRHPrjou9ks_ojNeIAfVqum8eHiRCJqQkb0WUH1PuP8VaFGhlBLxwVxW-Sf5wypPu2aAn4kareMC3suGduTnBWnAAm9iwxJg5yrZNux1mdwiyMin5Z29hNt2f9YAwEdqaYkdU3M2Qh4/s320/Chil02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043715075749976642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Go and see what lies in the terrace at the back" exclaimed Wife, as soon as I returned home from the office late one winter Tuesday evening. In our narrow backyard I espied in the dim light of a distant bulb a large dark triangular form lying still on the ground. On closer inspection it turned out to be a large bird, an enormous kite, locally known as "<i style="">chil </i>" (</span><b><i><span style="color: rgb(91, 91, 91);font-family:serif;" >Milvus migrans</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial;">). My heart sank at the sorry sight of the bird. It was obviously sick or injured or both. It had collapsed with its legs under it, so that its chest was on the cold cement floor. Even its head was lying on the floor, turned to one side, as if resting on a pillow. The wings drooped to the ground. Its eyes remained closed even as we talked. Birds or animals which once collapse like this usually never recover.<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Memory harked back to my youthful days, to the first kite I tried to save. I was then about 10 years old. While playing with the neighbourhood gang a simple and energetic game of 'Kings' with a worn out tennis ball in the ground of the unnamed mosque, I was interupted by a friend, who had come running.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Come quick," he panted "a <i style="">chil</i> is drowning in <i style="">Kumeer</i> 's pond".<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><i style=""><span style="font-family:Arial;">Kumeer</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;"> (=Crocodile) was the local milkman, who maintained an illegal cowshed behind the girls' school. Why he was nicknamed Crocodile I do not remember, for his girth and gait resembled a healthy hippopotamus which has recently swallowed an adult elephant. One of the whims of childhood I imagine. The run off from <i style="">Kumeer</i>'s cowshed created and maintained the pond, which was so filthy, that even Crocodile was said to refrain from adulterating the milk with the pond water. None of my friends dared to wade into the pond to pick up the kite, which was still struggling in the water, for no one but me was such a fanatic as to risk the inevitable sound thrashing at home, if his mother found out that he has stepped into Crocodile's pond. We all knew that even walls and buildings were as transparent as the thin air to all mothers' eyes. So down I went into knee-deep mud and recovered the kite, while others formed a chain, the end person of which held on to my belt, to prevent me from joining the kite in totality. Friends then washed the kite and my legs with clean water supplied by the cowherds in the employ of Crocodile. I dried the kite and in the falling light of the dusk placed it in the lowest fork of a nearby tree. Next morning I ran to see the kite and found it floating in the pond face down, dead and cold. Probably it tried to fly away. Since I made the mistake of placing it in the tree facing the pond, it probably just popped out and fell in the water. A small mistake and a life gone. Since cremation turned out to be impracticable, we buried it in the field of the unnamed mosque, consoled each other and prayed that it lives better in the nether life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I held little hope for this new kite. Since our narrow terrace was surrounded by tall buildings on all sides, it is extremely difficult for large birds like kites to intentionally fly down. So I guessed that this kite must have fallen down from the parapet at the roof, two stories above. Still, one tries what one can. Most birds have normal body temperature of over 40°C, while the cement floor was not more than 20°C and surely would get colder in the night. Since a wild creature would get nervous indoors, I placed a few newspapers on the terrace floor, placed the kite on them and covered it up by several more sheets. The kite was very light in weight for its size. Probably it could not get any food for the last few days. It barely moved while I handled it, a most unusual behaviour of a wild creature. Still less hope of survival, it seemed. By the time I showered and came out of the bathroom, it had thrown away the covering sheets of newspapers, but was otherwise lying in the same position. I debated mentally how to keep it for the night. Lying like that outdoors could be dangerous. Our boundary wall was the main thoroughfare of all the alley cats in the neighbourhood, while roaming from houses by the front street to those at the back. When I kept pegions as pets, quite a few were eaten up by the cats. How much a dying but large, live kite would appeal to their appetite was a serious question. We dared not keep it in the bathroom, for Mother was afraid that it might fall head first into the toilet bowl, as it happened with a baby sparrow in the past. Rather unlikely, considering the difference in size, I thought, but just in case. Inside the rooms it might move around and get underfoot. Ultimately, we let it lie in the terrace on a bed of newspapers, which in the morning seemed to have revived it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">In the light of the morning I picked the bird up and placed it on the wall of the water tank, while I examined it thoroughly. From its enormous size, deep chocolate colour and general appearance it was clear that 'it' was actually 'he'. In fact from the arrogance of his regal bearing it seemed that it was His Royal Highness The Chil. He was well armed with a set of formidable looking claws, powerful hooked beak and hooded hunter's eyes. On scrutiny he was found to bear deep but dried injury at the elbow of one wing. We cleared the clotted blood, poured 5% mercurochrome solution on the wounds and preened his feathers as well as we could. In daylight he did not look so sick as in the night before. Most of his feathers were quite slick. Still he was too weak to protest my handling. Inspection of the newspapers showed that whatever he had in his stomach produced very little output throughout the night. It could not be guessed from his droppings, if anything else was wrong. Trying to feed him created the most seroius problem. He refused all the six obvious foodstuff for a carnivore, which we offered him in succession : fish, meat and eggs once cooked, once raw. Desparing, Wife made a thick solution of milk powder and with an ink dropper slowly dripped it into his beaks. Half trickled down his chest, half he swallowed. Wife also made him swallow a penicilin tablet. By bodyweight proportion with respect to a human, we calculated that this would be enough for him for 24 hours. After feeding time I cleaned him with a wet rag, dried and fluffed his chest feathers. Both of us left for our respective places of work, leaving Chil sunning and preening himself in the terrace, care of Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Returning in the evening I found Chil in his original posture, lying down again with his chest, head and wings to the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"What happened ?" I asked in alarm, for he was looking so perked up in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Look at his theatrics !" said Wife, "Only a moment ago he was standing upright. He must be doing this craving your sympathy, now that he has found you are home."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I picked him up and he reclined in my hands like a babe in arms. Wife had already fed him milk, wondering how long he would last on such a fare. Mother reported that he spent the day trying to sit on some sort of a perch. He did not like to perch on the water pipeline. The things of his preferance were our flower pots, many of which he had overturned, while trying to sit on them and broken some. We tried some more variety of food. As it turned out to the astonishment of all, the only food he ultimately accepted was highly spiced potato curry.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The table manners of Chil left a lot to be desired. He would take a piece of potato in his beak and transfer it to his claws. He would then look up and only after reassuring himself that a waiter or waitress was still at close attendance, daintily scoop out a portion of the potato with his hooked beak, in spite of his weak health shake his head vigorously, thereby disintegrating the potato to smithereens, with bits and pieces sprinkled liberally on the walls and our clothes, rear up with great pomp and show, hold his head high and swallow the microscopic morsel that remained in his mouth. Like an aristrocat, Chil accepted food only after it had been repeatedly requested of him. In fact he carried out his feeding manners to such an extreme, insisting on eating only from our fingers, that had it not been for his size, colour and lack of baby skin around his beak, I would have thought that this is an immature and unfledged bird. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">After accepting about a quarter kilo of potato curry, of which he ate a tenth and distributed the rest, Chil felt much better. He then started parading around, found that the terrace was too dark and hence decided to enter the bathroom and guard Wife against ghosts and goblins while she took her bath. He stood guard precariously balanced at the rim of an empty plastic washtub, so Wife had an exhilerating bath wondering when he will fall down into the bathwater, or become nervous and suddenly spread his wings in the narrow confines of the bathroom. In keeping with his regal solemnity, His Royal Highness did none of these, but being annoyed when the bathroom lights were switched off, he walked out in a huff and sat in the terrace. However, he deigned to accept a few sheets of newspaper for the night.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Strangest of all, during his entire stay at our house, not a single cat dared walk by. Even the pesky crows avoided our house like plague, even when raw fish or meat was being dressed by the maidservant sitting outdoors in the terrace, an otherwise unthinkable situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Next morning was a repeatation of the previous day's experience of feeding and cleaning him. Chil turned out to be rather ungrateful towards women, especially Wife, who took the trouble of feeding him. He would rear up, erect the feathers on his head and neck, threateningly open his beaks whenever she came close. He spent his day sunning himself, breaking a few more flower pots and drinking deeply from the gutter, adamantly refusing to touch the pot of clean water left for him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">That was the day when I went around the town looking for alternative accommodation for Chil and it turned out to be an eye opener for me. We Indians pride ourselves for being compassionate to gods' creatures : "Who serves living beings serves the Supreme Being" and so forth. Once upon a time, a dove, hotly pursued by a falcon sought protection of King Shibi. When the falcon came and argued that nature had ordained that birds like doves are his prey and food and that it was also a king's duty to protect the falcon, King Shibi cut off and offered the hungry falcon an equal weight of his own flesh in lieu of the dove. Both the birds were of course gods in disguise, who reverted to their normal images, blessed the King, explained that they had come to test him and teach the population lessons in compassion. What a pity that the population has not learnt the lesson.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Our office was still connected through a crossbar telephone exchange, one of those failed technologies, which our politicians buy from other countries, going in foreign junkets and fattening their secret Swiss accounts in the process<a style="" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=8337158902667586453#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. I told the tale of the Chil to our harrassed telephone operator and told her to get me the phone numbers of all possible people, who might be persuaded to accept, house, feed and nurse a sick kite. Step number one was obviously the Calcutta Zoo. The gentle(?)man at the other end of the line was a bureaucrat.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Hallo ! Calcutta Zoo ?" I enquired.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Yes, Clacutta Zoo. What do you want ?" challenged a rude voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Could you please tell me what to feed an injured kite that has fallen in our house ?"<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Kite !" he scolded, probably shocked at my audacity, "We don't want Kites." He banged down the telephone. Absolutely typically bureaucratic -- boorish, no replies relevant to the question and good for nothing but collecting salaries. Mr Zoo was not like King Shibi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Going through the telephone directory, I came across the World Widlife Fund. That's it, I thought happily. Ms Telepone Operator could not get the connection, but WWF office was just a few buildings away. So I walked over and enquired. WWF office turned out to be full of a large number of beautiful pictures of cuddly animals and a small number of young and enthusiastic employees. No, they advised me after a sympathetic hearing, the function of this WWF office did not cover looking after kites, whether healthy or ailing, but I might try an animal lovers' society, which had an establishment in a street a kilometre away, exact address unknown.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I skipped lunch and went to that street, walked up and down the long road three times and just by chance discovered the destination. Crossing a long, dark, gloomy passage, I reached a hall of sorts, which could do well with some paint and illumination. There sat a brace of sombre old men, surrounded by the smell of disinfectants. I repeated my tale. No, they could not accept Chil, they only cared for cats and dogs, that too if absolutely unavoidable. From the desultry dialogue, I imagined they would not even care for a unicorn. Nevertheless, they said that I was making a mess of caring for the kite : I must feed him crushed mice, including the fur for good bowel movement, or else he will die of constipation. The last statement is the only pronoucement they made gleefully, although looking at me sternly. Hungry and hot from walking around in the midday sun, I walked out, wishing that they be born again as kites and drown in Crocodile's pond in their next life. The gods avenge sick kites after all, I discovered some months later. It seemed that this Society had some sort of British patronage. Someone visited from UK to check on their performance and having discovered that they spent more money on the member homo sapiens than on healing sick animals, cancelled their affiliation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Back to the sympathetic boys and girls of WWF. This nice gang had meanwhile talked the matter over amongst themselves and discovered that one of the girls knew a man who kept a kite as a pet. What an angel of a man, I marvelled. They gave me his telephone number, with which I triumphantly came back to my office, as WWF phones were all out of order. Mr Kiteman's telephone was connected to the most overloaded exchange in the city. Miraculouly, after only eleven attempts I got through to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"I understand, that you have a kite and I wonder if ........." I started to say.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Yes ! Yes ! Of course you can have him. Come over to my place and have tea with us. Then you can take him. Or, if you like, I can deliver the kite to you. Just tell me where you live" replied a voice, almost hysterical with anticipation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Actually, I do not want a kite." I could barely get in a few words edgewise, "An injured kite has fallen in our house. I was wondering if you will take him...."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"What ! What ! What ?" screamed Mr Kiteman in such terror, that I lost my nerve.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Ahem. Hallo ! Hallo ! There is a noise due to bad phone connection. Can you hear me well ? What I was saying was, can you tell me what to feed him and what special care to take of him ? I have given him a penicilin tablet and put mercurochrome on his wounds, which seem to be healing anyway."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"You have to feed him what </span><b><i style=""><span style="">he</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> wants. He will not eat what </span><b><i style=""><span style="">you</span></i></b><span style="font-family:Arial;"> want. I do not know if penicilin and mercurochrome will do him any good, or any harm for that matter. If you are worried, then you can take him to the Veterinary Hospital at Belgachhia, although I don't know how. Public buses and trams will not take him. I doubt if even taxis will agree. Kites look ferocious you know."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Where art thou now, O King Shibi - I thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Didn't your kite ever fall sick ?" I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Never. This kite of mine lives in a cage from youth, when I got him, but has the worst possible temper. Ever since he is fully grown, I have often left his cage door open and let him free. But he just walks around the roof and returns to the cage at feeding time and at night. Yesterday he fought with the mongoose in the next cage. The mongoose has got a deep gash on its head and the tip of the kite's upper beak has broken off. He won't fly away ......." Mr Kiteman almost wept in the phone.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I let the phone down at the first polite opportunity. Mr Kiteman has committed the gross blunder of taming a wild creature and now hoped that it could return to nature and fend for itself. A baby is pretty in the mother's lap, the wildlife in the woods -- runs a proverb. From childhood, I was allowed to keep only pegions, which can be let free. Caged or fettered birds were not allowed. "How would you like to be left caged or chained yourself ?" asked Father, "Don't you think birds feel likewise ?" When I left home for college, there were no dearth of takers for my pegions. A kite is another story.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Next day we repeated our attempts to feed Chil different cuts of fish and flesh, we tried pieces of meat disguised in the potato curry -- no hope. Chil must be a member of the large local kite population, whose most popular sport is to swoop down and snatch packets of delicacies from absentminded hands of people, who have just come out of the nearest sweetmeat shop. Kites are really omnivorous. So we bought a piece each of all the differnet kinds of savouries from the corner shop and offered him -- no hope. We offered him the lush fare of winter fruits and vegetables : apples, beans, cabbages, cauliflowers, right upto yoghourt and zucchini, although not in alphabetical order as listed here -- no hope. The books on ornithology write about what kites eat, but not how to make him understand what he should eat. The books about pet birds do not mention kites. Mother and Wife were becoming frantic, I was also worried. We did not want Chil to die in our care, eating penicilin and potato curry, drinking milk and gutter water. The subject was discussed at length in my office, in the college where Wife taught, amongst our relatives and neighbours. No one knew how to feed Chil correctly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">"Today afternoon please go to your cousin, the Professor of Chemistry in the University." I suggested Wife. "Ask him to consult his collegues in the Zoology department, if they can suggest how to feed Chil his proper food. Also ask him if anyone knows the address of the renowned ornithologist Dr Salim Ali; not that I expect, that Chil will last till the time we write him a letter and get back the reply<a style="" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=8337158902667586453#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[2]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a>. If I have time tomorrow, after office I shall go to the birds bazar in the New Market and ask the shopkeepers, although I have never seen a kite being sold."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">The Professor was out of station. Contrary to all our apprehensions, Chil's condition improved by the hour. Next day, when the midday sun was hot, he walked indoors, entered the first bedroom, inspected at length the undersides of the beds and the tables, rotating his head to all possible angles, such that not a single perspective was missed, even peeped behind the clotheshorse, but discovered nothing of interest. The floor was too highly polished for his clawed steps, so he paraded out pompously to the cool bathroom and composed himself for a siesta. He also practised shaking and moving his wings, a thing he was not doing at all in the past. He probably understoond that there was no space for spreading his enormous wings in full for a thorough testing. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">I had outstation visitors and was very busy in the office. Two hours after office closing time, when I had just decided to call it a day, it struck me that I have not tried the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. I made a note in my desk calender to ring them up next day, during working hours. It was too late to go to the birds bazar in the New Market. I thought over the situation while riding home in the Metro Rail. Chil was too weak to spread his wings and hop up to the boundary wall, from which he could possibly have launched himself into a flight. The coming weekend I could take him out for a trial flight. I would take him to the neighbouring empty ground, place him on my arm and see if he could spread his wings. Then I would see what he does, if placed on the wall.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Reaching home I found it an abode of gloom. Mother and Wife were sitting in abject misery. That afternoon, while the maidservant was sweeping the terrace, she saw Chil suddenly spreading his wings, jumping up on the boundary wall and taking off in apparantly painless flight. This should have brought us immense relief and happiness, but sorrow and a feeling of loss was what actually prevailed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36pt; line-height: 12pt;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">That would have been the end of the tale, but for a singular incident next Tuesday. Mother had come out on the terrace to pick up the drying wash, when she suddenly saw an enormous kite. For a long time he just stood there, looking hither and thither, but accepted no food. Then unseen sometime he flew away for ever. Mother thinks it was Chil, who came to express his gratitude, but accepted no food for fear of been fed penicilin again. I don't think birds have brains enough for gratitude, but then why would a kite undertake a difficult and dangerous aerial manouvre in the narrow space between tall buildings for nothing ?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAVDrWUoYbYcpQxuBapr5bunxpu48pP9IxYodfVtp2FrGwGVZR2ElvoAgfFaCghBpXi_xAWiqfzSnkSUwYUuEczeSsX3jn-d0Yb0fOM6-k9daf4Y82fx9wtZreWH6_K4nr-COICcY_wsCA/s1600-h/Chil01.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAVDrWUoYbYcpQxuBapr5bunxpu48pP9IxYodfVtp2FrGwGVZR2ElvoAgfFaCghBpXi_xAWiqfzSnkSUwYUuEczeSsX3jn-d0Yb0fOM6-k9daf4Y82fx9wtZreWH6_K4nr-COICcY_wsCA/s320/Chil01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5043715818779318882" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><i style=""><u><span style="">End</span></u></i></span></p><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><div style=""><hr size="1" width="33%" align="left"> <!--[endif]--> <div style="" id="ftn1"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=8337158902667586453#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[1]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This happened long ago. In all fairness, the telephone system is superb now.</p> </div> <div style="" id="ftn2"> <p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a style="" href="http://www2.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=8337158902667586453#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]-->[2]<!--[endif]--></span></span></a> This was before email service became commonly available in Calcutta.</p> </div> </div>Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-46606624605437845572006-12-20T12:01:00.009+05:302014-03-22T13:41:18.044+05:30Proverbs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-26651001475032170062006-10-30T14:12:00.000+05:302014-10-31T08:43:45.256+05:30Sikkim, first time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.in/lokenrc/IdleBrainSParadise/photo?authkey=83uwCNTZFug#5239599507404339250"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/lokenrc/SLbL_cwluDI/AAAAAAAAArE/0_Tl7Ou6RZc/s400/SikkimHdng.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ";">G</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: arial;">etting
down from the Darjeeling Mail at New Jalpaiguri station, after a 569kM
overnight journey from Calcutta, the head still hurts from the noise,
heat and dust of the mega city. The journey from the platform to the
street is a long walk on the overpass and includes a 2-storey staircase
climb up & down. If your group has fewer strong hands than
pieces of heavy luggage, immediately start haggling with the red shirted
<i>coolies</i> (= porters). After coming out, it is best to take a bus (~Rs15 / head), a taxi or auto-rickshaw (~Rs80<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[i]</span></a>
for 2 with luggage) and escape hastily to Siliguri. Get down at SNT
(Sikkim National Transport) bus stand. If you are going to Gangtok<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[ii]</span></a>,
Rinchenpong, etc., better take the earliest possible next SNT bus.
Otherwise, there are several Jeep Commanders, Mahindra Maxx, Tata Sumo,
which ply to Gangtok, Pelling, Ravongla<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[iii]</span></a>
etc. If any driver of hired cars from West Bengal tries to persude you,
that they will make the whole trip inside Sikkim for you, do not trust
them. Unlike in WB, the Motor Vehicle Dept of Sikkim are quite strict.
There will be no dearth of licenced taxis or hired cars at Gangtok etc.,
who are authorised to take tourists around Sikkim. If you are a repeat
visitor, who knows the ropes and your destination is a little off the
way, take a share taxi to Jorethang and then another to your
destination. If there are several members in a group, it is worth hiring
a whole car and fill up with fewer than the prescribed capacity, so
that everybody has a few centimetres more space to stretch. Moving
quickly is important, so that you reach your destination as early as
possible and have the option of making photo-taking halts as and when
desired. </span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Y</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">ou
trundle out of Siliguri. Your have the first sight of Mahananda
Wildlife Reserve. By and by you realise that the car in on a gentle
upward slope. There is less pollution in the cooler air. The spirit
rises on seeing the name of a roadside restaurant – Hotel Tista Rangit,
names of 2 important rivers, both popular with white water rafters and
kayakers. The curvy Sevok bridge passes by to the right. It looks like a
smaller version of the parabolic Bremero bridge in the Autostrada, as
one enters Italy from Austria and is nearly as old. The vehicle travels
over bridges at Geil Khola, Tista and Lepcha Jhora (<i>Jhora</i> = small
waterfall) one after the other and crosses from West Bengal (WB) into
Melli Bazar, Sikkim. No, wait! Sikkim Police stops the car. Workmen in
white coveralls approach with nozzles to spray the tyres and the inside
of the car with disinfectants. All passengers have to walk a few paces,
while a scented disinfectant washes the bottom of the shoes. You see,
nobody has any faith on the slothful callousness of the Govt of WB,
which keeps telling lies about culling of chicken, while bird flu rages<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[iv]</span></a> in the state.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">T</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">hose
who suffer from motion sickness, even while driving in the gentle Swiss
Alps, should now take an Avomine anti-vomit pill. For those who have
successfully traveled without discomfort in the road climbing up to
Darjeeling may sit back and relax. The roads of Sikkim are much better
than those of WB. The hills rise, the valleys drop. You have glimpses of
the gushing water far down there with a kayak or two bobbing down the
river. At places, it is almost like standing at the edge of a green
Grand Canyon, USA and looking down at a high speed Colorado river. If
you had booked the vehicle exclusively for your own group, you can tell
the driver to shut off that infernal noise of Hindi songs blaring out of
the boom box. You breathe deeply in the clean jungle air.</span></span></span><br />
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driver will make a halt for refreshment at some market town. Depending
on your destination, it could be Jorethang, Singtam etc. If you halt at
Singtam, you can look up to see the <i>Pippali Gir</i> (= butterfly
fall), where even a butterfly would fall down the 100M steep cliff.
There is a very narrow bend on the road above, which turns around
another sharp cliff jutting out like a Frenchman’s nose. A continuous
trickle of water washes the asphalt away to keeps the stones permanently
exposed and slippery. They say a car takes about 40 min to drive from <i>Pippali Gir</i>
to Singtam. If the car wheels slip, it reaches in four seconds. The
flowering trees and plants like hibiscus and bougainvillea really show
off what they can do in the mountain soil. Their reds are of brilliance
unseen in the plains. <i>Mandar</i>s<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[v]</span></a> bear ruby rings on the tip of every finger-like bare branch. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">The green terraced rice field on the opposite hillside looks like a staircase to heaven.</span></span><span lang="EN-GB"> There are some flowers like </span><span lang="EN-GB">cherry blossom</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 100%;"> </span></div>
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of very straight and smooth, high quality bamboo. The green terraced
rice field on the opposite hillside looks like a staircase to heaven. As
the car climbs higher, feather like </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: green;"><b>ferns</b> </span><span lang="EN-GB">sway in the breeze </span><span lang="EN-GB">with long fingers, whispering – “Come hither! Come hither!!”</span><span lang="EN-GB">
The soul is at peace. Nope! I have spoken too soon. If the Alps is
docile as a pet cat, the Himalay is a ferocious Bengal tiger. The car
halts. The unpredictable mountain has chucked some rocks and stones. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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you have passed by. By the time you are back and the driver has
collected the co-passengers, the bulldozers have curved out a bumpy path
for progress.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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Sikkim, the joy is more in traveling, than in reaching. Look carefully :
every nook & cranny, every crack of stone, every long exposed
root of tree, every sloped ray of sunshine has something to boast of.
You keep turning your head back & forth, lest you miss
something. After some time, you are lost in this fairy tale land.</span></span></span></span></div>
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car reaches Gangtok and weaves towards the taxi stand through narrow
zigzagging streets. You try in vain to make mental note of dozens of
attractive spots, where you want to come back on foot. It is difficult
to write down anything in the swaying car. Using the voice memo of the
cellphone is better. It is not necessary to book hotel through travel
agencies. Their commission will come out of your money. If like us, you
have avoided the crowd of the peak tourist season, you can simply phone
up hotels and haggle a good off-season discount. If there are several in
your group, you can leave the luggage with one and the rest fan out to
scout for price worthy hotels. Keeping communication with each other by
cellphone is easy. Sikkim has an excellent cellular network except at
border areas and almost very grown man has a phone. A few hotel :</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB">1. <span style="font-family: ";"><span style="color: purple;">Hotel Mayur</span>, </span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Panchwati Holiday Resorts Ltd.</span><span lang="EN-GB">, very centrally located, good quality. About Rs1,100 + 10% tax / double bed room. </span><span lang="EN-GB">Phone</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Mr Rupesh Kumar, 94342 57278 / 97334 46705, <a href="mailto:rupesh_panchwati@rediffmail.com">rupesh_panchwati@rediffmail.com</a>, <a href="http://www.panchwati.com/">www.panchwati.com</a>. Be sure to insist on rooms facing the hills and NOT the road.</span></span></span></span></div>
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59302, very centrally located, a 2 storey climb up, just behind the
BSNL Telephone Exchange, a few paces to city centre. All rooms, except
top floor look out to the walls of the next buildings about 2M (~ 6ft)
away. The 3<sup>rd</sup> floor rooms facing the Telephone Exchange give
clear view to Kanchenjungha. If you are carrying a BSNL cellphone, the
signal strength is zero, though the tower in about 15M away from the
window. Seasonal rates Rs1,500 to 2,700 + 10% tax depending on room
& tariff plan per double bed. We paid Rs550 + taxes for the top
floor double room at off-season rates. The room service food is
presentable & priceworthy.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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50M from Private Bus Stand, a staircase climb to M G Marg (the central
pedestrian’s plaza) About Rs600-1,100 + 10% tax / double bed room. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Phone</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> 94743 55699 / </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">97332 14039, <a href="mailto:hotelhungryjack@gmail.com">hotelhungryjack@gmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:navinsukhani@gmail.com">navinsukhani@gmail.com</a>, <a href="http://www.hungryjack.com/">www.hungryjack.com</a>, <a href="http://www.sikkiminfo.net/hungryjack">www.sikkiminfo.net/hungryjack</a>. </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhiLhQgrH5A/UJQ2UU1iQpI/AAAAAAAAKng/yN2aUtC7poY/s1600/080323_081030.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nhiLhQgrH5A/UJQ2UU1iQpI/AAAAAAAAKng/yN2aUtC7poY/s1600/080323_081030.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span>Rooms
facing the hills are better, those facing the road cheaper &
noisy. If your memory is not razor sharp, in 5 min. you will think your
hotel’s name is Hungry Horse – many do. Better ask for & carry
the hotel’s card, lest you get lost. The restaurant at the ground floor
offers good food, if you are stuck in rain or if you want European
dishes only. Otherwise, take breakfast but eat out. Bang opposite the
narrow road are several restaurants offering everything from South
Indian to Bengali food.</span></span></span></span></div>
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17673 is a jovial man, who takes great enthusiasm in planning &
arranging your site seeing trips, preferably before nightfall,
thereafter it is better to let him enjoy his own time. The hotel is a
little distant<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[vi]</span></a> from the city centre in a quiet surrounding, up a short flight of stairs from street level. We stayed in the 3<sup>rd</sup> floor roadside room. At </span><span lang="EN-GB">Rs600
+ 10% tax / double bed, it was a large room with a very large bathroom
and a view to Kanchenjungha. There is a large, well furnished empty
dining room downstairs. The sound of a <i>jhora</i>, kept soothing company at night. Take breakfast, but eat out.</span></span></span></span></div>
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all Sikkim hotels and even many modest lodges accept booking from
different cities. Payment of an advance amount through your local branch
of their designated banks seals the deal.</span></span></span></span></div>
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First stop, preferably for lunch : </span><span lang="EN-GB">Taste of Tibet</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> 98620 74326, a 2<sup>nd</sup> floor</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_edn7" name="_ednref7" style="color: black;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[vii]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">
restaurant at the other end of the plaza from the Tourist Office. If
you are lucky, you get window seats. Two of you can order 1 plate (8
pieces, Rs30) of steamed pork <i>momo</i> (like dumplings) & a cup of <i>Thhukpa</i> (comes with momo) and 1 bowl (Rs45) of <i>Gyathuk</i>
(like mixed chow mien in soup) split for 2. If you are still hungry,
there are other delicacies like chow mien of different mixtures. By this
time, watching other customers, you will be able to guess, how much
each dish contains. Based on your experience in other Indian
restaurants, you will not rightly guess the generous quantities just by
looking at the prices in the menu. If you want to buy Chinese 'White
Rabbit' toffees, better buy in Gangtok, as they cost more everywhere
else. Price varies widely from shop to shop. Those near the Kanchenjonga
Supermarket charge the lowest price. The bigger the packet, the more
economic is it.</span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red; font-family: "; font-size: 10;"> </span></div>
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are not yet so common around Sikkim. In Gangtok there are several. Axis
Bank has a good presence, there are 2 ATMs at this end of M G Marg, 1
more at the other end, near the Tourist Office. You can replenish, if
funds are low. On the same footpath as you come out of </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;">Taste of Tibet</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: small;">,
slightly to the right is a hall, where a large number of tailors busily
ply their treadle machines. We have never seen such concentration of
tailors. A similar shed for cobblers is </span></span></span><br />
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in front of Kanchenjungha Super Market, a short walk away. Opposite
the tailors hall is a series of shops, where you should try to prevent
the ladies & girls from entering. Usually you will not succeed.
Eventually you will come out with an armful of junk, including some,
which you bought, telling yourself, that these are for gifts back home.
One shop has good collection and it is the only one that accepts credit
card – naturally the prices are touristy. They also have a high altitude
ATM (Axis was then called UTI) at the cantonment on the way to Nathu La
/ Baba Mandir.</span></span></span><br />
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though a little aged. A Rs200 taxi ride will take you to the zoo. It is
nowhere close to the Singapore Zoo or the Hagenbeck Tierpark of
Hamburg, but you find a few novelties like the red panda or the rare
snow leopard (<i>panthera uncia</i>), though a little aged. The zookeepers love their wards and are loved back in return. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Raja</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">, the Himalayan bear comes ambling out of the bush on hearing his keepers voice. On his command </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">Raja</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;"> stands up and twitches his lips to the delight of visiting kids.</span></span></span></span><br />
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go to Nathu La, you have to hire a car or get into a shared car. Many
tour & travel parties, mostly crowded around M G Marg will be
happy to arrange your trip. To get a permit, you need to submit original
of a proof with address & photo (like passport or voter id
card). The tour party will arrange photocopy, permit etc., but it
usually takes a day's time. The road goes via Tsomgo (Changu / ছাঙ্গু)
Lake, divides after the army cantonment, one branch leads down to Baba
Mandir, the other goes up to Nathu La ( La = pass). Even if the road is
open, enquire first, if there is anything worth seeing in Nathu La, as
the border trading post has lost its popularity. A Bangladeshi Facebook
friend informed in 2013, that Sikkim does not allow their entry. I don't
know, if that rule is still valid. If you are Indian, but have any
foreigner accompanying you, better check before the journey.</span></span></span></span></div>
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Visit, only if you are particularly religious. Be prepared for a crowd.
Since it is in a valley, the smell of stale urine from innumerable
visitors is quite penetrating. If you are religious, leave a sealed
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back. The Baba was an Indian soldier, who valiantly fought flood
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<span style="color: red;"><b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande;">P</span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: lucida grande;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">admasambhava</span> at Samdrupste</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">
trip in the general direction of Namchi is a must. A 41M tall statue of
Vajra Guru Thangdrup - Rinpoche Padmasambhava, sits upon a </span></span></span></span></b></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Lotu</span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;"><span style="margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #cc66cc;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">s throne</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: red;"><span style="margin-top: 0px;"><b><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #cc66cc;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;">on 2.15kM high hill at Samdrupste (= wish fulfilling hill in Bhutia), 8 k</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">M from Namchi. The seat is shaped like a huge </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim#5268757153085153090" target="_blank">copper coloured lotus</a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. Deeply religious<b> </b></span></span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sikkimeseare seen performing ritual <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim#5268757145604673298" target="_blank">peramb</a></span></span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim#5268757145604673298" target="_blank">ulation</a> around the statue. The <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim#5268757132767636818" target="_blank">foundation stone</a> gives the details of the statue.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 10;"><span style="font-size: 0; margin-top: 0px;"><b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">R</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">eturning from Samdrupste, you drive on that slippery <i>Pippali Gir</i>
road. If you are sitting on the gorge side of the car, don’t look down.
The entry fee to the nearly empty “Namchi Rock Garden” is Rs5 per head.
It lets you into a long, </span></span></span></span></b></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">lily</span></span></span></span><b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> lined, steep, zigzagging path leading far downhill to the rock garden. The path is </span></span></span></span></b></b><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/108822637254580012196/Sikkim?noredirect=1#5268756537266480498" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">pretty</span></span></span></span></a><b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "; font-size: 24;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> enough, but you soon loose nerve, thinking of the time & effort to climb back. In North Cal accented Bengali <i>Namchi</i> / নামছি means “I am descending”. We wondered, if this was the reason, why this place is called Namchi.</span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: lucida grande; font-size: 180%;">R</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">umtek
Monastry is the largest in Sikkim. There is a very large number of
Lamas of different age groups, the youngest ones running around merrily.
It was the teenage Lamas’ time of prayer. It is as deep, melodious and
reverential as any. We were allowed to enter & attend the
prayer. We stood with folded hands at one side. Obviously our behavior
is quite proper. A grown up, English speaking Lama camse forward and
gives us a guided tour about the premises.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">R</span></b></span></span><span lang="EN-GB">avongla has also undergone a very pleasant change in the last 2 years. At </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">R</span></b></span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">eturning
from a holiday is sad. Sadder still is returning from Sikkim. In a
pensive mood you enter the large Mahanada Wildlife Reserve, but where is
the wildlife? There they are – several domestic cows & dogs
loitering around near cottages in large paddy fields. There are sporadic
& loose stands of trees with substantial undergrowth. In dry
seasons, there is controlled burning of the undergrowth to prevent large
forest fires.. You find locals coming out of the woods carrying large
logs on their shoulders. The excellent furniture business of Siliguri
thrives on stolen wood. There is a huge military cantonment and then you
slam into the noise heat and dust of the plains at Siliguri.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: ";">I</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">t is difficult to stop visiting Sikkim. Try my blog <a href="http://lokenrc.blogspot.in/2008/08/sikkim-second-time_1345.html" target="_blank">Sikkim, second time</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> covering a visit to North Sikkim (Lake Gurudongmar, Yumthang via Chumthang, Lachung, Lachen) & West Sikkim (Kaluk, Rinchenpong & 2nd time Ravongla)</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">In Bhutia</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">Cho = lake, e.g.
Gurudongmar Cho</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">Chu = river, e.g. Rangpo
Chu</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Chung</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> = nice</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">La = mountain pass,
e.g. Nathu La</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">Phukki = cave</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tashi Delek / </span><span lang="BN" style="color: black; font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">তাশি দেলেক</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: BN;"> =<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: BN;">all encompassing
greeting : welcome, how are you, best wishes, greetings etc.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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like the Indian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">namaskar</i> / </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: BN;">ননস্কার</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Thang
= place (</span><span lang="BN" style="color: black; font-family: "Shonar Bangla","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-language: BN;">বাংলায় ঠাকুরের থান যেমন?</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">),
e.g. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Chunthang
(<i>chung</i> = nice, <i>thang </i>= place)</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="EN-GB">Wadhah = water fall</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><i><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Vrinda; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt; mso-bidi-language: BN;">In Nepalese</span></i></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Jhora = minor water
fall</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB">Same place,
different spellings,</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Keozing / Sosing /
Kewzing</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">Rabong / Rabangla /
Ravongla / Ravangla</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB">This blog is based
on our trips in October 2006 and March 2008. Rates, hotels, telephone nos. etc.
need recheck, if indeed they are valid. To give an idea, here is the analysis
of the costs for 2 adults that we incurred during our visit in 2006.</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Date</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Details</span></b></div>
</td>
<td colspan="4" nowrap="nowrap" style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 136.45pt;" width="182"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rs</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 14.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Travel</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hotel</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Food</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 14.25pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Others</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">9.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">New Orchid, Gangtok 5-8
Oct</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,640</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">377</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,100</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NaamSaaling Res, 11-14
Oct</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,640</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">164</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">11.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ravongla Star, 9-10 Oct</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,320</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">390</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">4.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Train : Sealdah to NJP
2nd A/c</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,698</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">12.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Simvo Tour & Travels</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,400</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Train : NJP to Sealdah
3rd A/c</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,228</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tea, cheese</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,100</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Cook's Inn</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">681</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">23.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Print films</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">600</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Pelling to Siliguri 3
seats</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">500</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">19.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Print films</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">400</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">5.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sikkim Nationalised
Transport</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">260</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Gangtok Zoo</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">200</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">45</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">11.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ravongla to Pelling</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">220</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taste of Tibet</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">150</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">7.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tibetan chanting CD</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">150</span></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Orthodox, 2nd flr</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">150</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.10.06</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bread, cheese, passion
flower juice</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">130</span></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Local trips at Siliguri</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">120</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">4.10.06</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taxi to Sealdah</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">8.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Damodar Ropeways</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">15.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Taxi to residence</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Passion flower juice</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">60</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">5.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rickshaw NJP to Siliguri</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">50</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">10.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rock Garden, near Namchi</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">30</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 13.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">6.10.06</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Arial Narrow","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Flower Exihibition Cetre,
Whitehall</span></div>
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<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 13.5pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">10</span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><br /></td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Total</span></i></b></div>
</td>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">13,996</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">5,876</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">3,960</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 35.35pt;" width="47"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2,825</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 33.0pt;" width="44"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">1,335</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height: 12.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 30; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 39.55pt;" width="53"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: center; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">%</span></b></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 132.0pt;" width="176"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">100</span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 36.3pt;" width="48"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">41.98</span></i></div>
</td>
<td nowrap="nowrap" style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 12.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 31.8pt;" width="42"><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: auto; mso-vertical-align-alt: auto; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: right; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric ideograph-other; text-indent: 0in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">28.29</span></i></div>
</td>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">20.18</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">9.54</span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">For preparation, refer to <a href="http://sikkimtourism.gov.in/Webforms/General/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Official Website of Sikkim Tourism</a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[i]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> India has 6 seasons, each about 2 months long : <i>grishshwa</i> = summer (starts mid April), <i>borsha</i> = monsoon (mid June), <i>sharat</i> = 1<sup>st</sup> autumn (mid Aug), <i>hemanta</i> = 2<sup>nd</sup> autumn (mid Oct), <i>sheet</i> = winter (mid Dec) & <i>basanta</i> = spring (mid Feb). The intensity and duration varies from place to place and year to year.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4698165598431559421&postID=7352421686092001071#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[ii]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> Unit of local self government.</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""></a></b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[i]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> All rates are those we paid in October 2006 and March 2008.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[ii]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> SNT bus @ Rs110 / head Siliguri to Gangtok. Try to get seats in front like nos. 1, 2 etc.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref3" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[iii]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">
Siliguri to Ravongla by share taxi run by Ravangla Motor Transport
Driver’s Union @ Rs110 / head. Information at Ravangla end by Jeetu, the
bubbly lad, who sometimes mans the ticket counter. He is at </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB">
97330 21887 until he gets a better cellphone service provider. While at
Ravongla, if you find the ticket booking counter empty, spread words
amongst the passers-by and nearby shopkeepers, that you are waiting for
him. Shouted calls will be relayed to him. Meanwhile try Ugen driver, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Wingdings;">phone</span><span lang="EN-GB">
98325 11830, who usually runs a share taxi in this route these days.
Advance booking possible both ways. Sitting : 2 with driver, 4 in middle
row, 4 in back row. If you think it is too cramped, 3 of you can
reserve the middle seat by paying for 4 and so on.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref4" name="_edn4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[iv]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">
This travelogue is a mixture of 2 visits, 4–16 Oct 2006 & 14–26
Mar 2008. Climate varied widely with different seasons. Both were
slightly off peak tourist season. As veteran tourists, we hate crowds.
The bird flu was raging in 2008.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref5" name="_edn5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[v]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> <i>Erythrina variegata</i> or <i>E. indica Lam.</i>, <i>E. variegata var. orientalis</i>,
Tiger's Claw, Indian Coral Tree, Sunshine Tree. "We saw and heard old
people saying that continuous crying of dogs and turning of leaves of
Mandar tree upside down bring flood." - <a href="http://www.benfieldhrc.org/disaster_studies/working_papers/pdfs/workingpaper6.pdf">Indegeneuos Early Warning</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref6" name="_edn6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[vi]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> After roaming around in city centre or after getting down from a long distant bus / taxi, if you are too tired to walk to </span><span lang="EN-GB">New Orchid Hotel</span><span lang="EN-GB">,
you can take a taxi. All taxi rides within city limits in Gangtok,
irrespective of distance costs Rs50. Similar rate applies for other
towns, Rs40 or 30 depending on the size of the town. Unlike unmetered
taxis in “cow belt” Indian towns, Sikkim taxi drivers normally do not
overcharge tourists.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref7" name="_edn7" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[vii]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB">
To keep the place from degenerating like Goa or becoming a filthy slum
like Darjeeling, Sikkim Govt. does not allow lifts, to discourage too
tall builds.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref8" name="_edn8" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[viii]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> India has 6 seasons, each about 2 months long : <i>grishshwa</i> = summer (starts mid April), <i>borsha</i> = monsoon (mid June), <i>sharat</i> = 1<sup>st</sup> autumn (mid Aug), <i>hemanta</i> = 2<sup>nd</sup> autumn (mid Oct), <i>sheet</i> = winter (mid Dec) & <i>basanta</i> = spring (mid Feb). The intensity and duration varies from place to place and year to year.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.do#_ednref9" name="_edn9" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span lang="EN-GB">[ix]</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> Unit of local self government.</span></div>
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<b>(<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #993399; font-family: times new roman; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">to be continued, when I have time</span></span>)</b></div>
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Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com0Sikkim, India27.430289738862594 88.50585937525.629388238862596 85.924072375 29.231191238862593 91.087646375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-6424309585764628832001-10-30T11:22:00.002+05:302010-04-26T21:21:09.807+05:30Mukutmanipur<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-aPBklCvWIrSHGH4H53zVM8Vzw0KSq43ulxiZXpKq_ySnksGpbUK34z7QFIXCAlr4XEqNhC5TkRPHczLTstcGStZaHTv9HqZ7ljWsvSmZeSsL3bhQT88ab6bqrORaWA2MJ9AIR0cYDz7/s1600/Mukut.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 241px; height: 52px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9-aPBklCvWIrSHGH4H53zVM8Vzw0KSq43ulxiZXpKq_ySnksGpbUK34z7QFIXCAlr4XEqNhC5TkRPHczLTstcGStZaHTv9HqZ7ljWsvSmZeSsL3bhQT88ab6bqrORaWA2MJ9AIR0cYDz7/s320/Mukut.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464474204295597602" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWg9mc00F1rMTp2arSC_nwoMR_RPN_itwtEJDVQEiDRMEk6dQbgSd_P7lwzwcxDj1BAe_PC66BeAPVBbYtDhMo_1yiOSlO39AnPTuViBjfnkGvASKM2Wor0oTOq8skB2n6FMvUOyif-vQ4/s1600/Manasar+Chali.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 154px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWg9mc00F1rMTp2arSC_nwoMR_RPN_itwtEJDVQEiDRMEk6dQbgSd_P7lwzwcxDj1BAe_PC66BeAPVBbYtDhMo_1yiOSlO39AnPTuViBjfnkGvASKM2Wor0oTOq8skB2n6FMvUOyif-vQ4/s200/Manasar+Chali.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459505161928973618" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Destination</span></span> : Peerless Resort, Mukutmanipur, Bankura, West Bengal<br />Departure : Howrah on Saturday 27.10.2001, 0605 hrs by train ‘Ruposi Bangla’ to Bankura at 1040 hrs<br />Return: Bankura on Tuesday 29.10.2001, 1700 hrs by same train to Howrah at 30.10.01, 0030 hrs<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Participants</span></span> : The usual BECA gang<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The journey</span></span> : Bleary eyed, the dawn after the immersion ceremony of Durga Puja, we reached Howrah station. Buro, our great organizer, had arranged a novel “on-the-wheels” packed breakfast, comprising of “Chicken Tikka in Croissant”, a Franco-Iranian dish and cakes, washed down with milk tea followed by lemon tea. Jiban & family joined the next morning by the same train. In the train we evicted the usurpers of our reserved seats and made ourselves comfortable. The South Eastern Railway train ran smoothly on well maintained tracks. The eyesore jumble of bricks, concrete and rusting tin roofs of Howrah melted away to the soothing greenery of Medinipur, as the train made its first halt at the enormous Kharagpur station. Here, the compartments were detached from the composite train. The front part moved away as Dhauli Express. The tail part as Ruposhi Bangla Express branched off towards Adra, Purulia with a different electric engine. By and by, the commercial flowerbeds and the swamps of ‘hogla’ & lotus of Medinipur gave way to the red, rough soil of Bankura district. Presently, we reached the railway station of Bankura town, a mere 10 min. behind schedule.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxsjZC6CgOKiZ-E1o9mpANvo68hMrx1QsZ_FuKah9Eg0QNB-yjyJVSrCbjXWmqKgT7J5t3e27ZKp5mJfKqBpcx3DhlmCVwy259wdZWeX7JHQz12rgAYRIbEv4ETkemheP7MlxK345fx2T/s1600/Mukutmanipur.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxsjZC6CgOKiZ-E1o9mpANvo68hMrx1QsZ_FuKah9Eg0QNB-yjyJVSrCbjXWmqKgT7J5t3e27ZKp5mJfKqBpcx3DhlmCVwy259wdZWeX7JHQz12rgAYRIbEv4ETkemheP7MlxK345fx2T/s320/Mukutmanipur.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459503510370380034" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The place</span></span> : About 240 kM by road from Calcutta, at the western edge of Bankura district lies a large reservoir formed by diverting and damming the rivers Kangsabati (or Kñasai) and Kumari, which now join at a new confluence upstream of the reservoir. This is one of the longest earth dams in the world. Three Ambassador taxis took us to Peerless Resort, Mukutmanipur, Police station Ranibñadh. The driver of one of the taxis could do well with training in politeness and courtesy to passengers. The 56 kM, 1½ hour drive took us through towns, villages and market places with such quaint names like Bheduasol, Hatirampur, Boyramari, Dangarampur, Kuabagan, Shunukpahari, Dhaldangmor, Supur, Indpur, Batra, etc. We drove on a Sanghati Setu (Union Bridge) over River Shilabadti. The resort is on a hump, right on the edge of the Kangsabati reservoir and with a commanding view of the water body and distant banks and hills.<br />Young men ran thriving extortion rackets in the highways. We found them holding up goods vehicles at 3 or 4 places, soliciting “subscription”, at some pretext or the other. We were however, held up only once during our taxi journey from Bankura railway station to Mukutmanipur. The “subscription requested” by 7/8 boys and young men (some of whom were sitting on the highway blocking traffic) was on account of worship at some nearby, albeit invisible pir’s mazhar (= Muslim saint’s grave). The taxi driver dodged the issue, by requesting deferred payment. The “subscription collectors” let us go, warning the driver, that they were on duty only upto noon, by which time he should come and pay. They even gave him some ‘blessing’ in advance. I wondered what the local Mollah would have to say for performing puja and distributing prasad at a pir’s mazhar, especially if he is like Mollah Mohammad Omar of the Afghan Talibans or Syed Ahmed Bukhari, Imam of Delhi Jumma Masjid. Anyway, the money for the pir’s mazhar in question will probably spent in the nearest country liquor shop.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvPu9zYcxCLJLm7o7i-vrs3Alga8UVGFJTS5Zf2jErW3_iVrbwzq_Z8SmGL9flqsKzz2f9ySWvEK9vO9PMiCvm0rPiZR8sOgdQYVOXOMHUpj2XFSell4wqtvkuFrNXggbsbqyyeaDhvy3/s1600/M3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 103px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvPu9zYcxCLJLm7o7i-vrs3Alga8UVGFJTS5Zf2jErW3_iVrbwzq_Z8SmGL9flqsKzz2f9ySWvEK9vO9PMiCvm0rPiZR8sOgdQYVOXOMHUpj2XFSell4wqtvkuFrNXggbsbqyyeaDhvy3/s320/M3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459505420380087682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Landscape</span></span> : The Bankura district was predominantly dry and unproductive, until it was vastly improved, when Dr B C Roy, the visionary late Chief Minister of Bengal, caused the Kangasabati dam and extensive canals to be built. Now, all the areas we passed through were pleasantly green with small plots of ripening paddy dotted with date palms and ‘Tal’ trees, crowned with shimmering green fan-like leaves. None of the tal trees showed the typical notches for toddy tapping, though the locals obviously know the technology, as proved by toddy tappers’ notches in some date palms. Particularly lush paddy fields formed green carpets in the rich soil of the original riverbed of the River Kñasai river.<br />Excursions : After lunch on the day of arrival, we visited the Kangsabati Barrage. The water was low. We climbed the Louha pahar (= iron hill), where the stones appear to be rich iron ore. There were a few stone images of Lord Shiva’s bull and a few other deities at varying degrees of erosion, which were recovered from the old riverbed and brought to this high ground. A metre high, cracked image, lying on its back, seemed to have once been best carved. The heavily eroded image could belong to Jains, declared Chitrita. An emblem of Lord Shib and a trident along with the supine deity accepted all pujas. A brilliant and well-photographed sunset closed the day. After sundown, we drove to a tourist area near Bonpukuia Mrigadab. It was quite dark. In the wooded area no deer was visible. Two pottery shops made good business, selling many burnt clay tiles, figurines, gods and goddesses to our group. There was a decaying Youth Hostel in the vicinity, which is sad, considering the tourism potential of beautiful Mukutmanipur. Onward we went to Ambika temple in Ambikanagar, at the original confluence of Kñasai and Kumari rivers. The deity is obviously very old. A marble plaque said, that the temple was extensively renovated in 1302 (Bengali calendar). A new Manasa temple stood by the side, with Manasa riding a conch shell shaped chariot, pulled by a donkey and adorned by 3 snakes. On one side knelt Ram with bow and arrow in front of Durga, about to offer his eye in lieu of a blue lotus. On the other side stood Behula and Lakhinder, garlanding each other. A good potter seemed to be the maker of all these images.<br />On 28th, a dilapidated Jeep took Buro, Ratna, Giri, Loken and Kamal to Bankura and Bishnupur. Every 10 kM, there was a halt, while the Jeep’s radiator took in water from any nearby pond and Buro gave some out in the bush. At Bankura railway station, Jiban, Karabi and Tinti joined and we drove off to Bishnupur. Buro and Ratna went to market to buy 12 silk saris, including 2 on order from Giri. The rest drove on for sight seeing, with the reluctant presence of Jiban, Karabi and Tinti, who had already seen Bishnupur and were looking forward to some rejuvenating rest after the strain of leaving bed at 4 am and a 5½ hours train journey. They were voted down and on we went.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYNTxXyQrnnNUL03gsIJPyGW_-_N7x3PW3VufcM6VbYBWDwll6dKK-vWUXnrc807m9Om6G8C_HxpBlJo-x_QZBrIUoyqbkyvT7VKi29_j08_jJsf4S2tAlMfxVxwQQ3mpFXgdTAf7EZ8o5/s1600/Unique.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 86px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYNTxXyQrnnNUL03gsIJPyGW_-_N7x3PW3VufcM6VbYBWDwll6dKK-vWUXnrc807m9Om6G8C_HxpBlJo-x_QZBrIUoyqbkyvT7VKi29_j08_jJsf4S2tAlMfxVxwQQ3mpFXgdTAf7EZ8o5/s200/Unique.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459506130484587490" border="0" /></a> In all the temples of the Malla kings, this terracotta bas-relief, showing an open lotus, appears in important places, such as above the keystones of archways.<br /> Typical Terracotta tile on temple walls<br /><br />The unique architecture and stunningly beautiful terracotta surface embellishments of the Bishnupur temples will make the jaws of the most jaded visitor drop in awe. A few of the temples have been taken over by the Archeological Survey of India, who has blocked close access. On inquiry, it was found, that this is to save these heavenly terracotta tiles from vandals, who carve their names on these priceless objects, thereby destroying them forever. So the adimiration of their beauty has to be limited by views at the outer walls only. In spite of the ravages of weather and vandals, neither pictures nor thousands of words can do justice to these extraordinary pieces of art. One can merely list them :<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eJHl2ANx8DJfsUhC54OJlEu8DIwUnWrEG8zBmTDbljK20-FMehAHZpH0vq38_NHDdXcuitHBc9kCeNE8cQy4Bh_Etaf0RexIAGs9Vwy292eOQEg2k7VhYSkpa9KGlWnPBlJyELhgcRPB/s1600/Rashmancha.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eJHl2ANx8DJfsUhC54OJlEu8DIwUnWrEG8zBmTDbljK20-FMehAHZpH0vq38_NHDdXcuitHBc9kCeNE8cQy4Bh_Etaf0RexIAGs9Vwy292eOQEg2k7VhYSkpa9KGlWnPBlJyELhgcRPB/s320/Rashmancha.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459507191107048098" border="0" /></a><br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rashmancha</span> built by the Malla King Birhambeer in 1587 AD. It is a square stage, built on a high laterite square plinth with pillared passageways and domed roof. Used for general congregation on the occasion of the Rash festival, when all other images of Radha & Krishna were brought here from neighbouring temples.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shyamray</span> Temple built by Malla King Raghunath Singha so…p in 1643 AD. It is a square temple on a square plinth, topped by 5 pinacles of which the outer 4 are square and the middle and largest one 8 cornered, sitting just over the sanctum sanctorium.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS19ImnbY7F_-vI0Mw66vpmO_hHi95S1owPPEWMvY6QKtoVMiksuglRHyIzmhWSa2mtddQ51aEq_1KFva8WAUEkFYPsKxYiBUZLpdyzYFzgMQqymM02av7Nh7vVT6gVGWV5CqpoZv4Df95/s1600/Jorbangla.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS19ImnbY7F_-vI0Mw66vpmO_hHi95S1owPPEWMvY6QKtoVMiksuglRHyIzmhWSa2mtddQ51aEq_1KFva8WAUEkFYPsKxYiBUZLpdyzYFzgMQqymM02av7Nh7vVT6gVGWV5CqpoZv4Df95/s400/Jorbangla.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459507762889268898" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jorbangla</span> (Krishna Roy) temple built by Mallaraj Raghunath Singha the second in 1655 AD. It looks like a pair of back-to-back double sloped thatched roof huts topped with a 4-cornered crown. The terracotta tiles on its walls are reputed to be the best of Bengal.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Radhanath</span> Temple inaugurated in 1737 AD by Churamani Dewi, eldest daughter-in-law of Mallaraj Gopal Singha.<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Radheshyam</span> Temple built by Mallaraj Chaitanya Singha in 1758 AD. It has a square plinth and domed roof. There are residual traces of superfine a plastering technology now lost with carvings on the smooth surface.<br /> A wrought iron canon named <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dolmadal</span> (or Domardan), 3.8M long, muzzle bore 29.2 cm manufactured by welding together 63 rings, which are quite visible from the surface. It is said, that in 1782 AD, to save Mallaraj Gopal Singha, the royal family’s primary god Lord Madanmohan himself came out of his temple and fired this canon to repulse attack by raiding Borgi (Maratha) robbers lead by Maratha Chief Bhashkar Rao.<br /> All the above-mentioned temples have been taken over by the Archeological Survey of India and are beautifully maintained as relics. Only in Madanmohan Temple regular worship continues. We missed it due to lack of time. For this omission, we suffered the displeasure of Lord Madanmohan.<br /><br />During the return journey, after collecting Buro, Ratna and a bagful of saris, we visited Mashak Hill. A brilliant sunset coloured a partially cloudy sky. After photographing the sunset, Buro and Tinti climbed to the top to visit the hilltop temple and a bat infested cave standing next to it, complete with a sadhu.<br />Thanks to the jerking jalopy jeep, we were convinced, that the human body did indeed contain 206 bones as claimed, since we could feel the pain individually in each bone.<br />The balance ladies gang, accompanied by Dip and Gautam went on a shorter local excursion to the barrage, Mashak hills and Sutan forest. There was a watchtower in Sutan forest. While climbing it, Dip fell (literally) in love with the beauty of the forest.<br /><br />On 29th morning, a small ladies troop ventured out to bathe in the reservoir. After testing the water and finding the bottom very muddy and slippery, with the risk of the slope dipping sharply into deep waters, they lost interest and returned after a cursory bath. A few accompanied Dip to Ambika temple, where he offered puja in the name of BECA.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br />Boarding & Lodging</span></span> : The lodging comprised of two 7-bedded dormitories, with a bathroom and a toilette each. The womenfolk occupied one room and the menfolk the other. The pitch and volume of noise in each room reflected the gender of the occupants. A long nylon rope supplied by the ever thoughtful Buro provided a community drying line for towels and saris, strung between a tree and a railing, giving our temporary abode the appearance of an encampment of rescued flood victims. There was a pair of swings in the foreground for those who were young in body or in heart. The main attraction of the Peerless Resort was the huge dining room, a hexagonal hall with 2 rows of pillars and sloped roof, but with no walls, except on the kitchen side. Through profusely flowering hibiscus, roses and elegantly trimmed ferns in a well-maintained lawn, there was unrestricted 270° view of the lake shimmering like a silver sheet in the bright sunlight. The soft tap water was nice to drink and good to shower in. The night temperature was soothingly cool. The food was simple and not too spicy. So overall, it was a comfortable and relaxing stay.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Cultural</span></span> : Our famed singers Mishti, Tultuli and Ratna enlivened the night of our arrival. Singing commenced again next night, when we lost Mishti to a cold and sore throat, but gained Karabi. Tultuli and Ratna obliged on both nights. Loken was criticised for snoring occasionally during the singing, in spite of his protestations of relaxation and enjoyment. On the style side, Giri went around in a ‘fatua’ (= vest), on which Binu had done a glamorous fabric paint of Durga, her armaments and ornaments.<br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Disaster at Bishnupur</span></span> : In the return journey on 29th, when the train just rolled out of the Bishnupur railway station and it was clear, that we are really going to leave without visiting the temple of Lord Madanmohan, the Lord gave expression to his displeasure. The train suddenly decelerated and stopped. Newshounds brought back the news, that the vacuum hose has ruptured in the first compartment next to the engine, in which we were relaxing in our reserved seats, while a standing crowd looked on in envy. No replacement spare was available. Information was sent back to Bishnupur, while the train waited. In due course came the advice, that the train will have to be rolled back to Bishnupur, where spares and expert help may become available, failing which, our compartment will be detached to allow the rest of the train to move on. The surplus passengers hurriedly departed to seek space in other compartments, leaving us to regret our lack of religious fervour and the consequent prospect of standing in some unreserved compartment for the rest of the journey. Eventually Lord Madanmohan relented. After rolling the train slowly back to Bishnupur and with better tools, the engine driver himself managed to repair the damage and on we went in the same train, same compartment, only 2 hours later. We actually reached Howrah on the next day, 0030 am of 30.10.01. The extortion by the taxiwallahs was also no worse than expected : Hail Lord Madanmohan.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Memories of Mukutmanipur</span></span> :<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpc8SBPfG_rFrgxX9zyfZUd4CQ29rSatfzryIzSgFPjW85t29jbyCa7IOVYMvERY6_5WUQt3_AYjwNRFknwLZeuSsMrhn8hEQWB-zDdMOcj-fVTjCUMbfoxIJSTYo6KoVJAI08_fHJATzi/s1600/Memory.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 123px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpc8SBPfG_rFrgxX9zyfZUd4CQ29rSatfzryIzSgFPjW85t29jbyCa7IOVYMvERY6_5WUQt3_AYjwNRFknwLZeuSsMrhn8hEQWB-zDdMOcj-fVTjCUMbfoxIJSTYo6KoVJAI08_fHJATzi/s400/Memory.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459507769298901058" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >Repeat visit</span></span> : The overcrowding of Puri and Digha, the deterioration of Darjeeling to a filthy slum leave people of Bengal few choices for a quick, short getaway. For those wishing a calm and beautiful couple of days, the following information may come handy : Reservation at Peerless Inn, 12, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Calcutta 700013, 228 0301 (7 lines), email peerinn@giascl01.vsnl.net.in or Peerless Resort, Mukutmanipur, Khatra, Bankura STD (03243) 53 214-5 or local call from Calcutta 953243 53214-5. Nearest to the boundary wall on the reservoir side stands room # 11, with 2 beds, but the best is room # 14, with 4 beds. The going rate in season is Rs 500 and Rs 1,100 per day respectively. Off-season rates apply in summer and monsoon.Lokenrchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07875560589366529345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4698165598431559421.post-84726742181164883162000-06-04T00:17:00.006+05:302011-06-22T01:09:08.762+05:30Bakkhali Trip<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Vrinda;font-size:180%;color:teal;" lang="EN-GB" >বকখালি</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:";font-size:180%;color:teal;" lang="EN-GB" > </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Vrinda;font-size:180%;color:teal;" lang="EN-GB" >যাত্রা</span><br /></div> <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >D</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >estination :</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > Bakkhali Tourist Lodge wooden Cottages<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Departure from Calcutta :<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Saturday 3.6.2000 by </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" " lang="EN-GB">ভূতল</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="Joydurga Bengali"" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" " lang="EN-GB">পরিবহন</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">bus<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Return to Calcutta :<span style="mso-tab-count:2"> </span>Sunday 4.6.2000 by contract bus</span> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;"> </span> <span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" ><br /><br />P</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:arial;font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >articipants :</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Jiban Kr, Karabi & Dwaipayan (Tinti) Chaudhury</span><div style="font-family: arial;"> </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Dip Kr, Protima (Kanchan) & Swagata (Tultuli) Das</span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"> </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Kalipada, Tanushree & Tirthhankar (Tirthha) Das</span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"> </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Tapan Kr (Nara), Gargi, Arpita (Mou) & Arnab (Tulai) Das</span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"> </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Adwitia (Rupa) Das (Gargi's niece), Dibyojyoti (Dwijo) Choudhury (Tulai's friend)</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />Sukamal (Lumu) & Shubra (Baby) Kundu</span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br />Alok (Buro), Ratna & Abhishek (Dibyo) Mitra</span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"> </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Girishankar, Indrani & Mahashweta (Misti) Mukherjee</span><div style="text-align: left; font-family: arial;"> </div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;">Lokendra Nath & Chitrita Roychoudhury</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >T</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >he preparation :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> There is only one bus per day, which leaves Calcutta and ends at Bakkhali. It is run by West Bengal Surface Transport Corpn. To obtain assured seats in this bus, one has to put all ones ingenuity and resources to overcome the hindrances the WB bureaucrats could think up. Of 39 seats, 19 can be reserved in advance from Esplanade and 20 seats are for spot booking from Karunamoyee, Salt Lake. The bus departs from Karunamoyee at 0630 am and Esplanade at 0700 am. What do you do, if your team comprises 24 adults and children converging from all points of Calcutta? Ha, ha!!! That is your problem. Thanks to the persuasive powers of Lumu, the <i>babu</i> sitting at the Karunamoyee end ensured the necessary number of extra seats.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Buro, our great organiser, had arranged a very sumptuous in-the-bus packed breakfast, mainly for the benefit of Lumu, who becomes hungry within a few minutes of commencement of any journey. To avoid lugging around such a big bag of breakfast packets, Buro's original plan was to arrange an unscheduled halt at Chowrasta, Behala. All our efforts to dissuade him from such illegal act fell to deaf ears. Nobody questioned the practicality of his idea though. With its quota of daily murders and mayhem, you simply needed to wave a flag of any political party at Behala to ensure a "</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB">রাস্তা রোকো</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">”, so that Buro could climb in, with family and food. Eventually civic sense prevailed and Buro took the extra trouble of joining the group at Esplanade. The breakfast comprised of several very large sweets. Few could successfully finish eating within the extended breakfast time.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"></span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >T</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >he place :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> It is so near Calcutta and yet so very different from the bustling metropolis. Bakkhali is only 132 km from Calcutta. We travelled from Calcutta to Namkhana by bus (105 km), took a short ferry ride across the Hatania Doania River and then another hour and a half bus journey to Bakkhali. En route, there is Diamond Harbour (48 km from Calcutta).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">As Namkhana approached, one could notice a clear difference in the environment. Outside all the hardware shops, there were large quantities of iron anchors - not big like the ship's ones, as we normally see in the cinemas, but small ones for fishing boats. Some shops sold fishing nets and white plastic balls as floats for the nets. Temporary godowns with woven bamboo walls stocked huge amounts of jackfruits while more were being unloaded from big trucks. Every potter's shop had several half finished clay figures of </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">গঙ্গা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> on her mount <span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">মকর</b></span></span><span style="Joydurga Bengali"" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In the backyard of every other house, wooden boats were being manufactured or repaired. These boats are called </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">ভটভটি</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">, as that is the sound their diesel engines make. Presently, we reached the left bank of River Hatania Doania. Our bus followed a truck and a car and boarded the ferry. Many of our gang had never crossed a river in a motor vehicle, which boards a ship. It was all very exiting for them. Tanushree was as thrilled as a teenage girl on meeting a Bombay filmstar.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">From the right bank of River Hatania Doania upto Bakkhali, the road was like a ploughed field, although repairs were in progress. The pitch and yaw of the bus was just like a boat journey in a turbulent sea. However,<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>such was the attraction of the surrounding fields, that we hardly noticed the discomfort. The searing heat of the high summer had dried up most of the smaller vegetation, but still the beauty of the villages stole our hearts.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">The Tourist Lodge was found to be at a short distance from the bus terminus. We piled all our luggage and Lumu on a Bakkhali Taxi (flatbed "cycle van") and the rest walked to the Lodge.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">During our afternoon perambulation, we discovered many hotels and lodges, large and small, lining the narrow and overcrowded main street. Bakkhali was fast losing its charm. Still, the Tourist Lodge was the best place to stay.</span></p> <p class="H2" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" lang="EN-GB" >F</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"; font-weight:normalfont-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >lora :</span><span style="mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;layout-grid-mode:both;font-weight:normalfont-size:100%;" > Dense casuarina groves drape the beach. Bakkhali, a part of the larger Sunderban ecosystem, was once the gift of the mangroves, which slowly pushed into the sea, building up land behind, by trapping silt in their intricate root system. The mangrove can withstand all but the most violent cyclone and tidal waves. Thanks to encroaching human habitation, they are now all gone. The WB Govt had tried to build up a casuarina forest on the beach in a vain attempt to hold back the power of the Bay of Bengal. The sea has the last laugh and is recovering its lost ground fast. Locals say, that in the recent past, the sea has gobbled up about 5kM of the beach. The dead skeletal stumps of a large number of casuarina trees line the shores and the shallow waters. They get exposed at low tide. During high tide, these tree stumps get submerged and are a risk to bathers' limbs. The beach is partly of clay, partly of sand.</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style="mso-bidi-Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;layout-grid-mode:both;font-weight:normalfont-size:100%;" >A small patch of mangrove stands well inland, a defeated lone surviving soldier from a large valiant brigade, now all dead.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>The Tourist Lodge had a well maintained garden with springy grass, a guava tree, many coconut trees, eucalyptus trees, hibiscus and other flowering plants. The guava tree, though quite short, was lush and laden with baby guavas. All the hibiscus plants were so full of brightly coloured flowers, that it was difficult to take ones eyes off them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Cactus grew wild all over Bakkhali having leaves like green plates with sharp spikes. In several plants the flower buds had just started to form. Only in one plant a single flower bloomed in its yellow glory. It was plucked and presented to Kanchan.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >F</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >auna :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Red crabs scurried around on the beach. In the night, the crabs are scarcely visible, only 2 ghostly spots glow in the dark - their eyes. Several song birds could be seen, including some </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">দোয়েল</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">বুলবুলি</span></b></span><span style="Joydurga Bengali"" lang="EN-GB"> |</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Unseen in the trees, cuckoos loudly and melodiously proclaimed their territorial rights. 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Buro, Jiban and Loken were sitting on a bench, watching with alarm, the ladies and the children gorging on </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">তেলেভাজা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> across the street. Presently, a gentlemanly native dog approached, introduced himself and shyly offered his right front paw for a handshake. In a most ungentle manner, the normally gentle Buro vehemently refused to shake hands with the gentle dog. To maintain decorum, Loken shook hands with the dog several times. Probably assuming that this large crowd could be Boy Scouts (aren't we so young looking after all?) the dog then offered to shake the left hand as well, although without the Boy Scout salute. Again Loken had to do the courtesy, as Buro refused to be polite to a native. Jiban maintained a diplomatic distance, but later insisted that Loken must wash his hands with soap before touching anything or anybody. This is probably the manner in which the colonial British behaved with the native Indians in the last two centuries.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Along the seashore, fishermen were casting nets. Some of them made shallow depressions in the sand, lined them with polythene sheets and were storing small shrimps, probably for sale to shrimp farms. They were rather evasive as to the reason of storing these shrimps. Shrimp farms are ecologically very destructive and are now banned. This could be their reason for evasiveness. One local man confirmed this ecological disaster and said that some time back, there were some shrimp farms in the vicinity. The seashore was surprisingly devoid of any kind of seashells. There were a few scattered skeletal remains of small squids in the flotsam. A couple of skulls of cattle were thrown up by the sea, cleaned and bleached, complete with horns, like the deer's heads rich people used to mount on their walls. Buro opined, Kanchan would be fond of collecting such novelties. Consequently, the most attractive piece was picked up and brought back to the Tourist Lodge, duly concealed in a polythene bag, so as not to excite the local population. The skull was anonymously placed in the Ladies Dormitory. Initially, nobody knew wherefrom this attractive gift came. Chitrita immediately pointed out, that such a collection and delivery could only be done by Loken. It did not receive the welcome as anticipated. Instead of Kanchan going gaga over this gift, everybody shouted, "Go! Go!" So regrettably, the magnificent skull had to be jettisoned.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >F</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >un & frolic :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> On the evening of our arrival, after a very sumptuous lunch and a siesta, the gang was ready to roam. By this time it was dusk and nobody wanted to brave the 2 kM walk to Frasergunj in the darkness. So we started walking down the "Champs Elysees" of Bakkhali - all 1 kM of it and 5M at the widest. Presently, a </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">তেলেভাজা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> shop was discovered and immediately most of the ladies became very hungry indeed. Nara commandeered the filthy shop and supervised frying of a large quantity of </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">তেলেভাজা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> in a dirty liquid, claimed to be cooking oil. The women and some of the children ate to their fill. This did not prevent anybody from having a hefty dinner later on. Surprisingly, no one later fell sick - this goes to prove the Power of Indian Women.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Inspite of being so close to the sea, there was hardly any breeze. The heat and humidity was very high. Just before dinner, Nara suddenly started a Kabadi match in the lawn. He ran and high kicked like a Can Can dancer. Presently, he was evicted and it became a game of Kabadi and Khokho for the women and children. In course of the games, Baby had a comfortable and restful roll in the grass, which was only partly due to her losing balance. Karabi ran around as if she was still a schoolgirl, only to wobble around painfully next day. There was the usual singing and dancing in the evening. Although we are already aware of the cultural talent in our midst, one cannot but still marvel at the quality and excellence at each performance. One wonders, why the Calcutta stations of Doordarshan and All India Radio cannot find talents half as good as in our team. This just reinstates the general public belief, that only the </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">শালা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> and the </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">শালী</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> of the Station Directors are given any chance to perform.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>New moon was on 2.6.2000. Under its late influence, in the morning of 4<sup>th</sup>, the bore tide came in. The sea, which was so placid in ebb tide on the night of our arrival, roared, reared, seethed and frothed. An enormous spherical buoy, which the sea had torn from the mooring and tossed ashore like a playful boy's ball, highlights the power of the sea. The buoy now lay helplessly on its side in shallow waters. When the high tide rolls in, it gently rolls to and fro in the waves, like a bathing elephant. After breakfast, the participants scattered like ants. Nobody knew who had gone where. A very alarmed pair of fathers, Nara and Jiban mounted a search and arrest party, to limit the effervescence of their absconding sons Tulai and Tinti respectively, suspected of leading the children's gang into the turbulent sea. As it turned out, it was their mothers, who were more in need of restraint. Almost everybody had a gala time. Karabi and Baby took the opportunity of rolling with the waves in the sand, like heroines in Hindi films.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>During the return bus journey, the exhausted Buro fell asleep. Gargi and Baby, sitting within earshot, started a hilarious and highly uncomplimentary critique of his countenance. Even if poor Buro was awake, he did not find it judicious to open his eyes.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >E</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >xcursions :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> There was a </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB">বিশালাক্ষী</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> temple in the vicinity. On the night of our arrival, some locals pointed at an indeterminable path, in a grove of dark drooping trees, a path showing all signs of leading to a </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">ডাকাতে কালী বাড়ি</span></b></span><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span><span lang="EN-GB">We kept the adventure pending for the daybreak. Next morning, the path had lost its ominous looks and was in fact quite pleasant. The temple was a quaint looking mud hut with tiled roof. It had an aged look. The founding date was proclaimed in large letters - "1406". Buro reverently thought it to be 1406 AD, which makes the temple 594 years old. Loken irreverently declared it as the Bengali year, which makes the temple one year old. As it turned out, it was a year old structure. The gods and goddesses inside were very much relevant to the local lifestyle - Bishnu (the God of Sustenance), Bishalakkhi with 4 arms riding on her tiger, Ganga on her mount </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">মকর</span></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >, </span><span style="mso-bidi-" lang="EN-GB">B</span><span lang="EN-GB">onbibi (the Lady of the Forest) with 2 arms riding on her tiger, </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" ;" lang="EN-GB">দক্ষিন রায়</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (The Lord of the Tigers), </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">মনসা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (The Goddess of the Snakes) etc. Missing were </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="EN-GB">ওলাইচন্ডী</span></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" > </span><span lang="EN-GB">(The Lady of Cholera or </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">ওলাউঠা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB">) and </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">শীতলা</span></b></span><span lang="EN-GB"> (The Lady of Smallpox), which goes to show, that healthcare in remote villages have improved. Although sea fishing is a big industry, there was no popular gods responsible for fishing or for the sea, like the Christians' St Peter or St Nicholas. Buro had forgotten to take his camera to the temple. So he went back to the Tourist Lodge and took the camera and the very religious Ratna for another visit. After the pictures are circulated, we shall know what role Ratna had to play at the temple or with the camera.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >B</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-Imprint MT Shadow"font-size:10.0pt;" lang="EN-GB" >oarding & Lodging :</span><span lang="EN-GB"> The lodging comprised of wooden dormitories built over wooden stilts, all painted green outside and white walls inside. We had 3 rooms, one each for the men, the women and the children. This comfortable arrangement was liked by all, especially the children, who could avoid the constant unwelcome attention of their parents. The ladies held lively discussions amongst themselves - mostly unparliamentary. It could not have been very interesting for the children, as Tultuli was found to leave the room in boredom, after trying to relax in her mother's bed for some time. In the men's dormitory, cricket and relaxation was the main subject, with beer to beat the heat. Dip particularly stressed the relaxation part, by setting a glorious example at horizontal position. So did Giri in a slightly lesser scale.</span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-indent: 36pt; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span lang="EN-GB">A short flight of stairs led down to the garden. There were three swings in front of the Dining Room - one of them marked specifically for grown ups. A plastic boat floated in a well maintained pond, for boating purpose. A large extension of the Tourist Lodge has taken place, comprising some small bungalows and a row of rooms built on stilts like the dormitories. All new construction was of concrete instead of wood.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>It was convenient that Kalibabu's bed was by the window. A hand came in through the window and tenderly shook him awake at the crack of dawn. Kalibabu was sound asleep, but she was insistent. An anonymous witness, who claimed to have closed his eyes on commencement of a romantic interlude, reported this. Hence we also claim not to know anything more about it. One hint : there was no extra-marital affair here.</span></p> <p style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" class="MsoBodyText"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>By a strange coincidence, all our meals were conducted during power failure. Considering this being a West Bengal Govt Tourist Lodge, the food was very good. To the disappointment of Lumu, there was no </span><span style="Joydurga Bengali"" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB">উচ্ছেভাজা</span></b></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>|</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Due to the presence of so many eminent electrical engineers, the wiring in the Dining Room had burnt out. So dinner was by candle light, but hardly romantic, due to the stifling heat. 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