Vanishing Peak, Eternal Spring in Inexpensive Rainbow Country

Vanishing Peak, Eternal Spring in Inexpensive Rainbow Country

by A. Datta
Vanishing Peak, Eternal Spring in Inexpensive Rainbow Country

Vanishing Peak, Eternal Spring in Inexpensive Rainbow Country

by A. Datta

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"When I was a kid dad told me that Ootacamund a.k.a. Ooty is the land of eternal spring in India. But when I opened the Lonely Planet India Travel Guide, I found that water freezes in Ooty in winter. Surely Ooty couldn't be the land of eternal spring! However not very far from Ootacamund there is a place in Tamil Nadu named Yercaud where the temperature sticks to the 13 to 30 degrees Celsius range forever! This combined with the fact that Yercaud has no proper rainy season makes it possible to visit Yercaud all year round. This is advantageous as it evenly distributes the tourist rush. I decided to take dad to Yercaud and this is the story of our tour. Yercaud turned out to be the most beautiful place we had ever seen!"


Product Details

BN ID: 2940011126925
Publisher: A. Datta
Publication date: 11/04/2010
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

I went to the following schools. 1) English Major 2) Diploma in RDBMS 3) Post Graduate Diploma in … [that's my secret] 4) Certificate in Computer Servicing 5) Microsoft Certified Solution Developer I brought up over a dozen house cats in my 20s. As a kid and as a teenager I was never a good amateur cricketer, not even average. But I insisted on letting everyone bowl and keep wicket whenever I was made captain. I also started the batting order with the guys who were the least likely to get a chance to bat with practically any of the other captains. Winning a casual open-to-everyone game was much less important to me than giving everyone a fair chance. Since the dominant guys wanted to hog all the action and were more vocal it would seem that I was a very unpopular captain. But I doubt it. I'm proud to be an Indian and a world citizen. However, I always hated the most popular traditional attire worn by Indian women. The "sari" is a trap! I always thought it a better idea to drive one's own four-wheeler than hire a chauffer -- something that was quite uncommon in India when I was a toddler. Most of the eBooks to which I am contributor are my translations of works by Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. I am also a loss-making webmaster. I created http://aucklandwhich.org which is a specialized search engine for geoconfusables and I have a lightning-fast tester for Dansguardian parental control software at http://d.yourfilter.info.tm If you read my translations of Rabindranath Tagore's works you will surely treasure them for generations …

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