Hi there! I’ve got some horrifying news for you all. I read the newspaper of India this morning, and guess what has happened!? A train that ran from Kolkata to Mumbai have traced off its track and collided into another train during this night. So far, as many as 90 human beings have been found killed as a result of the crash, and this number is expected to rise after the seeking through of the two last chariots of the train is done. According to the civil defender of the province, Srikumar Mukherjee, still 70 people are missing after the collision, and these are probably dead.
The worst part of it all is that the domestic minister asserts that the tracing off the track not was an accident. In his opinion this was a plan of sabotage done by maoistic rebels. The Indian government claims that the tracks have been destroyed by a placed bomb. As a result of the fact that the maoistic rebels have done such things before and that the collision happened in a maoistic territory, they are the main suspects in this case.
I think this is some horrible news. 160 people are likely dead, and the maoistic rebels are charged as responsible of the collision. What if it actually was an accident and the maoistic “rebels” didn’t do anything? And on the other side, what about the poor families to the killed ones? Oh, I hate this kind of news! It only makes me feel sad and useless. All the time it happen so much bad things in this world, and we who are lucky enough to live in Norway, which is so safe and rich, never have to experience that side of life. We simply can’t imagine how lucky we are!
I’m heading back to my beloved country this evening. My dear family is waiting for me at the airport. I can’t wait to catch my eyes on them and tell them about every little thing I have experienced during my stay here in India. Hopefully this isn’t my last visit in this huge, colorful, tasty and exotic country, but until next time; take care! I’ll miss you all.
torsdag 28. oktober 2010
tirsdag 19. oktober 2010
My travel blog, POST 2
Today I’ve been walking around in this beautiful city. There are so many different shops out there! I almost went crazy. Grocer men trying to get you as his customer while offering an offer after another offer eagerly. They hang out of cars, windows and even backyards. To sum up; they were everywhere! Pretty cute, though. And I have to admit that I felt very special out there, and especially popular among those crazy bananas. The fact that Indian women dress all covered up with their costumes, which in my opinion can be compared to a rolled up curtain, doesn’t make me feel normal at all down here. The people I passed during my little shopping looked at me like I was nude. It’s not normal for a woman to walk in the streets of India wearing a t-shirt and knee-short shorts for the inhabitants. The Indian culture is a bit fascinating, though. They listen to Hindustani, which is a type of music that contains of spiritual inspiration, cultural expression and pure entertainment. I could hear that funny sound in every shop I visited, by the way. Moreover, there are lots of different cultures in India, and each one of them has their own traditions. In spite of this, the food is pretty much the same all over the country. Spicy, tasteful and exotic describes the food pretty good, I think.
When you travel abroad, those people you leave at home expect you to bring them something back when you return. So I went on an Indian local shop to buy some real Indian presents for my beloved, pampered folks back home. The grocer man showed me a sculpture made of tree. It looked like Mahatma Gandhi, India’s biggest pride. Gandhi is known as the Father Of Nations. He was a stellar role in India’s freedom struggle. The grocer man told me that his real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and that he was born the 2. of October in 1869. I also learned that one of his most famous phrase is “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes”. What an informative day! And of course I had to buy that sculpture. See you later!
When you travel abroad, those people you leave at home expect you to bring them something back when you return. So I went on an Indian local shop to buy some real Indian presents for my beloved, pampered folks back home. The grocer man showed me a sculpture made of tree. It looked like Mahatma Gandhi, India’s biggest pride. Gandhi is known as the Father Of Nations. He was a stellar role in India’s freedom struggle. The grocer man told me that his real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and that he was born the 2. of October in 1869. I also learned that one of his most famous phrase is “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes”. What an informative day! And of course I had to buy that sculpture. See you later!
mandag 11. oktober 2010
My travel blog, POST 1
Finally my journey to great India started off. The whole trip towards this gigantic country, with a flag painted in orange, white, green and blue, was wonderful. My plane was in time, strange enough, and my hotel room is like a paradise. There is incense everywhere, and the pillows in my bed are so soft. I’m in a real Indian mood, and I really enjoy being here already!
This country is so much larger in real life than on the television. India is one of the biggest countries in the world. Geographically it can be divided into three different types of landscapes; the Himalayas in the northern part, the Indian-northern plain-landscape and the plateau-landscape in the southern-part. During my little journey I am going to stay in New Delhi, the capital of India, and it is situated in the plain-landscape area. The climate over here is quite hot, as well. India lies in the temperate- and tropic climate zone, and that pretty much explains the heat! I almost couldn’t believe my own eyes and feelings when I arrived here! It was so hot, and there were colors everywhere; red, blue, yellow, green, and even orange. And the houses in this city are so large! Skyscrapers tall as mountains, houses wide as football grounds, and streets long as rivers – it isn’t for nothing that this country is famous for its distinctive stamps. Moreover, the famous river Ganges runs through the country. This river is the most secret thing for the Hindus living all over the world. A Hindu’s biggest wish is to visit Ganges once during his/her life. That’s a pretty amazing thought! I hopefully am going to visit it myself during this stay. See you tomorrow. Now it’s bedtime!
This country is so much larger in real life than on the television. India is one of the biggest countries in the world. Geographically it can be divided into three different types of landscapes; the Himalayas in the northern part, the Indian-northern plain-landscape and the plateau-landscape in the southern-part. During my little journey I am going to stay in New Delhi, the capital of India, and it is situated in the plain-landscape area. The climate over here is quite hot, as well. India lies in the temperate- and tropic climate zone, and that pretty much explains the heat! I almost couldn’t believe my own eyes and feelings when I arrived here! It was so hot, and there were colors everywhere; red, blue, yellow, green, and even orange. And the houses in this city are so large! Skyscrapers tall as mountains, houses wide as football grounds, and streets long as rivers – it isn’t for nothing that this country is famous for its distinctive stamps. Moreover, the famous river Ganges runs through the country. This river is the most secret thing for the Hindus living all over the world. A Hindu’s biggest wish is to visit Ganges once during his/her life. That’s a pretty amazing thought! I hopefully am going to visit it myself during this stay. See you tomorrow. Now it’s bedtime!
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