Nagaland Raw and Awesome
A team of Anthropologists from a German NGO based in Munich was scheduled to visit the Northeastern state of Nagaland. They were on the lookout for a German-speaking guide and made a request to a Calcutta travel management company with whom I was working.
In the Rhino country
Assam, the land of t h e Rhinos is a fascin a t i n g destination in the North East of India. It is also the largest and most easily accessible of all the Northeastern states. The undulating hills, lush evergreen forests, shimmering rivers and rivulets as well as a wealth of wildlife makes Assam one of the dream destinations in the whole of North East India.
Ahmedabad at Crossroads
Ahmedabad, the land of t h e Rhinos is a fascin a t i n g destination in the North East of India. It is also the largest and most easily accessible of all the Northeastern states. The undulating hills, lush evergreen forests, shimmering rivers and rivulets as well as a wealth of wildlife makes Assam one of the dream destinations in the whole of North East India.
KALI BHARAT YATRA: PASSAGE TO INDIA IN A PACKAGE
In the busy and lucrative travel industry package tours are dime a dozen. The concoction is simple. Popular places, good food, comfortable travel, cozy stay, promise of fun and excitement, etc, wrapped up always at an ‘unbelievable price.’
Air India has done well in US market; DEEPAK BRARA
The economic slowdown and the high fuel prices have affected almost all the sectors of economic activity in every country around the world. Industrial production has shrunk, inflation is up, and unemployment rates are high, affecting travel and tourism. Most airlines have laid off thousands of employees and reduced services.
Taming The Bulls In India
A sea of humans swells and ebbs in Thammampatti, a small town near Salem in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. There are people everywhere, easily tens of thousands; they flood the roads filling the narrow alleys, their eager faces gaze down from rooftops, they are perched precariously on bamboo scaffoldings to get a better look. And then comes the juggernaut, the bull.
Festooned with gulal [colored powder], ribbons and garlands and moving its head agitatedly showing off the razor-sharp horns it tears past the mass of humans. A hush engulfs the crowd and the excitement is palpable. The not-so-brave scamper to shelter themselves from the onslaught; the barricades are no match to the brute force of the beast. The alley, which looked jam-packed just one moment back, miraculously gives way.
The Roar of the Tiger
This is where things stood in 1994, when a Time magazine cover shouted that the Tiger was "Doomed", and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbit warned – " There may not be another chance to save Tigers". This new crisis galvanized the conservation community. It became clear that saving the tiger was not a battle to be won once and forever, but a continual process of holding old threats in check and preventing new ones from emerging as conditions change.
India addressed this crisis with the 1994 formation of the Global Tiger Forum, an attempt to engage the international community in Tiger conservation. The U.S. Congress passed "The Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994" to assist conservation programs in nations with Rhino and Tiger populations. Conservation organizations, such as the World Wildlife Fund and the Wildlife Conservation Society, launched new programs and re-energized existing efforts devoted to Tigers, and new conservation organizations emerged, here and in Tiger range states, to help. Perhaps most important, in the last few years all of these various players have recognized the need for co-operation among themselves.
