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I was travelling to Madras (Chennai) last week via the Shatabdi, when my blackberry beeped. There was a mail in my inbox from a journalist from Midday, Sowmya who happened to find backpacker , the blog interesting and wanted to know if the person behind the blog was interesting enough to be featured in her [...]

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Tranquebar or Tarangambadi as its called today was once a Danish colony , nestled in the Coromandel coast of India. Walking around the old fort, I could see the view of the beautiful beach from the windows. The fishermen had just finished their early morning catch and their boats bordered the shore.. To see more [...]

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My tryst with Singapore has always been filled with tourist attractions. But this time, I was lured to Singapore by a sporting event . Sitting in the stadium and listening to the cheers that reverberated through the stands, it was amazing to experience the energy out here. The opening ceremony of the Youth Olympic Games [...]

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The settlement called Madras is very young as it celebrates its 371st birthday today. This settlement slowly grew over the 300 odd years adding villages , older than itself to its boundaries, growing into the metropolis that we know today. Nestled in South India and often dubbed conservative by those who are yet to experience [...]

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Photo © Nicky Loh-All Rights Reserved Nicky Loh is a photographer with Reuters working in Taiwan, whose specialty is news, sports and feature photography, who’s interested in documenting traditional art forms such as Chinese opera. On his employer’s blog, he writes of having had an assignment to cover the 2010 Taiwan International Tattoo Convention in [...]

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One of my favorite online news provider is Global Post, not only for its cutting edge news reporting and analysis, but also for its frequent “off-the-beaten-path” features such as the one of Turkish transsexual brothels by Nicholas Dynan. It also periodically publishes Full Frame which features photo essays and conversations with photographers in the field [...]

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Photo © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedPhoto © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedPhoto © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedPhoto © Tewfic El-Sawy-All Rights ReservedA few days before the start of the Bali: Island of Odalan Photo~Expedition ™ , I drove to the eastern shores of the island to photograph the traditional salt making in Kusamba. I spent a [...]

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Photo © Tyler Hicks/NY Times-All Rights ReservedThe catastrophic flooding of the Indus is considered as Pakistan’s worst natural calamity, which has ruined almost every infrastructural aspect that connects the country together — roads, bridges, schools, health clinics, electricity and communications. The destruction is also estimated to set Pakistan back decades, will weaken its feeble civilian [...]

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The Tiziano Project presents the journalistic efforts and personal accounts of Iraqi citizens living in the Kurdish north, along with stories produced by their professional multimedia journalism mentors. An extremely well-made multimedia project, it includes stories such as those on the Yazidis, nomadic mountain-dwelling Kurds, a pigeon keeper, a muezzin, a klash maker, and many [...]

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