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US East Coast Travelogue 4 - Philadelphia, the City of Declaration of Independence of America!

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US East Coast Travelogue 4 - Philadelphia, A city of Declaration of Independence of America, its where it all started! It was end of May month, days were getting longer, giving ample opportunity for tourists to roam around east coast of United states. After spending 2 days in New York, we had stopped on outskirts of Edison City in New Jersey. City is named after famous electricity bulb inventor ‘Thomas Edison’. From today onwards we were going to start the journey covering 7 states and 4 major cities Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Niagara in New York State and Boston in Massachusetts. As they say, its journey that should be enjoyable and not only the destinations, schedule was jam packed, everyone on the bus was asked to follow strict timelines. Departure to Philadelphia was scheduled at around 6.15AM in morning, no time for lazy mornings, get ready, pack your bags and board the bus was the order. I opened window sliders around 5AM to check Sun rise and to my su...
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2017 Doklam Plateau - China and India military stand-off for Bhutanese border

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2017 Doklam Plateau - China and India military stand-off for Bhutanese border Lot has been said these days in Indian media about Chinese aggression in Doklam Plateau and Indian response to it. Media’s from both countries have been critical of each other, raising war cries. Chinese are more harsher than Indians, reminding loss of 1962 and brutal implications this time. So, can India and China really go to war? Will Chinese be able to defeat India? What will be the role of International community in this grand stage? Does India even has power to push back Chinese accession? Below is my analysis after doing little research on the topic and reading a dozen of articles. Current situation - Chinese soldiers tried to enter Bhutanese territory in Doklam Plateau to construct road inside disputed area claimed by both China and Bhutan. This area even if disputed, is under Bhutanese control. Since Bhutan does not have direct diplomatic relations with Beijing, it communicates through New D...
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US East Coast Travelogue 3 - New York, Iconic and beautiful city!!

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US East Coast Travelogue 3 - New York, Iconic and beautiful city!! In Continuation of Travelogue 2... We started our day with Empire state building, going up on 86 th  floor to watch over the NY City, after airport like check up and long queue.. clear sky and Manhattan on plate for breakfast, believe me you won't have seen such a view before. You can see whole Manhattan from up there, standing tall among them is newly constructed $2B One World Trade Center. 'Amazing' would be the perfect word to describe it!! There was 104th floor view as well but we didn't take that because of time constraints. Then we passed by Wall Street and New York Stock Exchange building, taking a stop near bull statue on Wall Street to get the feel of wealthiest street in the world. If you have seen these bulls next to stock exchanges, then you would know those are raging bulls… indicating the confidence in stock market and eventually in the economy of country.. bu...
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Know Your Sports Star | Leander Paes | India At Olympics

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Know Your Sports Star | Leander Paes | India At Olympics Lets Start with some quick facts - He has won Bronze medal for India in 1996 Olympics 54 Men's Doubles titles in his career and 8 out of those are Grand Slam titles 10 Mixed doubles Grand Slam titles  Partnered with more than 125 tennis players in doubles and mixed doubles category World no 1 junior champion in Mens' singles His name is Leander Paes, living legend of Indian Tennis. Leander is Calcuttan, born to Dr Vace Paes  - the hockey player from Bronze medal winning Indian Hockey Team. He completed his training in Chennai and rose to fame as No 1 tennis player in singles junior category in 1990 after winning Wimbledon title. Leander has played in singles in his early career but received less success in the format. Few highlights of his achievements from singles category are winning the only ATP title of his life and a win against all time greats Pete Sampras by 6-3, 6-4. ...
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