A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 shook central and southern Mexico today as people ran into the streets from their extreme panic as windows were breaking and debris falling, there hasn’t been an early report of major damage or any casualties. It was centered northwest of the Pacific resort of Acapulco according to […]
Margao (Goa) Beach- TheTourist Hub
Margao, for instance, is a more 6 km from Goa Colva beach and Benauilm which, legend has it, is the area from which Goa originated. Tourist cottage at Colva today provide facilities for cam style living and do it yourself cooking. The eating places few, small and what one recognizes as typically Goan in food […]
The Dun valley scenery- forest range and lower Himalayan hills
Let us visualize we are traveling from DehraDun to Amritsar. We get down to DehraDun station in time to catch the 1-50 p.m. train. We find seats in a carriage of the waiting train, see our luggage out in, and then settle down for the journey. The guard blows his whistle and waves his green […]
the Bookseller of Kabul
In the fall of 2001, Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad spent six gruelling weeks in the Afghan desert following soldiers of the Northern Alliance–sleeping on stone floors, bumping over pitted roads in the back of trucks, tramping in the heat on foot. After the Taliban fell, she arrived with the soldiers in Kabul, where she found, […]