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A Treasure House of Heritage

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The festive mood was still in the air! The Pongal pot boiled over and folks in Tamil Nadu went glee with “Pongal-O- Pongal!” renting the air. The fun had not ceased for people in PRSI. Families set out on 15th January to continue with their joy an
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Mother of all Mela’s – The Surajkund Mela

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White herons wait patiently for a catch in the serene Surajkund lake, surrounded by dense trees and foliage. Peacocks carelessly meander the place. Groups of monkeys keep busy with their pranks. Come 1st February every year, the hamlet in Haryana wo
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Almaty – The Apple City

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Alma-Aty in Kazhak means ‘Apple City’. “Raj Kapoor…film…we love it” they would exclaim. The local drivers and shop owners hum RK’s old numbers and its tune at the very drop of a hat! (Their traditional hat is known as Chalma). Jawahar Lal Nehru a
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A Chartered Train Trip to Goa

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The ECC Recreation Club (comprising the staff members of L&T – ECC, the Construction arm of Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai) chartered a special train for its 700 picnic-frenzy members, to undertake a 5-day outing at Goa. V S Ramana recount their c
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Revisiting Varakur - Varakur Srinivasan Ramana

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TRUE PERSONAL STORY - What do you attribute to, when one connects back with an ancestral village that for generations, one has had no links at all - leave alone the knowledge of its place or location.
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The Great Libyan Jamahiriya - Ghadaffi’s own Libya

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The Great Libyan Jamahiriya has been shut in for many decades, and is now opening doors to the world. It stands as the crown of Africa. To the Libyans, the resultant change will be a new chapter in their life. A large coastline – about 2500 kms of t
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Bhutan - A Kingdom in the sky

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That is was it truly means – Bhu – Uttan…meaning ‘The Highland’. Located along the eastern bed of the Himalayan range, also known as ‘the mountain kingdom’ Bhutan lies at an altitude of nearly 7600 feet above sea level. Druk Yul, the thunder dragons
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The Buddha Trail - 6 days to a good Sri Lanka Trip

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For the 23-member team from Public Relations Society of India (Chennai Chapter) , it was a moment of reckoning
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Revisiting Rangoon and Yangon – It is a matter of 63 years travel, back in time!

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The writer, V S Ramana – is a PR professional who undertook a unique journey, while participating in a ‘Made in India Show’ at Myanmar during February 2004. As the first in his family to revisit Rangoon and the small colony, ‘Bhak Htaw’, where hi
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Leptis Magna - ‘Rome’s Barn’ in Tripolitania

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This complete Roman city in the heartland of Libya is a Heritage City, uncovered first in 1920. It dates back to the 6th Century B.C. but yet modern in many ways – with a harbour, market, royal bath, the Doric Temple, Jupiter and Liber Pater Temples
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