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My Travel Guide to a Splendid Sunday in Bangalore

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On a lazy Friday while I was browsing the internet I happened to stumble across a TED talk from an Inspiring girl which gave me the push I need to get ready for a 'Single Female Traveler' #SFT Sorta Journey.  I grabbed my travel guide which I purchased many many months back and took out the Bangalore map and started marking the places to explore. For those of you who want to start exploring Bangalore, There is a guide I'd like to recommend- 'Get to know Bengaluru better'. I think it is published by someone called CitizensMatters.in. I find the book very handy to pull out random pages and get all the information I need to plan my short trips. Here is a quick shot of how the book looks:   OK OK.I admit. Only the top left picture is the actual click of the book. Rest 2 other photos you see above is a result of my creativity combined with boredom.  Getting back to what I was saying, I randomly browsed a few pages of the book to decide on how to spend my S

We are given two hands to hold

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This is the story of a poor man from a small village in India.                                             When he was young he was lucky enough to find himself a wife. Finding a wife is different in this part of the county.Unlike you yourself searching for a partner..your parents find the match for you and you settle with them,who-what-why, no questions asked. With an unknown person beside him for the rest of his life, they ventured on this journey of life. 'POVERTY BEGETS POVERTY' . The poor man found it even more hard to make a living for an extra person in his family whom he now calls wife. With hardly the 10 or 20 rupees he made per day they were able to keep their stomachs full with less food and more water. No food to eat. No clothes to wear.No blankets to keep them warm.The wife never complained because she knew...she made a promise..-for better or for worse. Time passes and oh how fast it passed.When the man was sufficiently confident there was a t