Prinsep Ghat, Kolkatha, West Bengal
How Dileep Learned English : His days of struggle and Growth !!!
Dileep D Anand web link:- http://www.honkokplease.com/ Monday, January 19, 2009 How Dileep Anand Learned English As I walked the 100 yards from the public bus terminal to the ferry station in Alleppey, in the southwestern state of Kerala, a horde of vendors and tour operators closed in for their mark. Alleppey is the primary point of entry to Kerala’s famous Backwaters, a 650 square mile area of man-made islands that were built by hand over the past 3,000 years and are now home to over two and half million people, most of whom live on the riverbanks and grow rice in paddies in the interior of the islands. Alleppey is the launching point for the booming Backwaters houseboat industry, which provides a deluxe, all-accommodations overnight boating tour through the rivers and canals. I had a destination, a home-stay in a rural village, and I was taking a public ferry, so I politely declined all entreaties. Growing impatient at the persistence of the tourism agents, I the...
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