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The Path Untaken
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An Indian student living in the Netherlands after my Master's in Canada. My stories across the 3 continents...
- Added on: Jun 4th, 2009
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Author: Thamarai
- Listed in: Travel Europe
- Tags: student Eindhoven Netherlands indian expat woman univeristy life
Recent Posts
Snoozing Out!
I really can't believe its been almost a month since I posted anything. My new office has me sitting right in the middle of everybody in the room. Even if somebody doesn't intend to, they would end up watching what is on my computer screen. Plus, I d...
Molen van Kinderdijk (Mills of Kinderdijk)
Wind mills are one of the first things that would come to your mind when I say Holland. After, 10 months of living here, I finally went to visit these rotating beauties ( well, technically not rotating any more). Kinderdijk is a small village in the ...
Dutchiness part 1: Nederlandse taal (Dutch language)
I wish to start a series called the Dutchiness to explain the Dutch as I see and experience, their culture, food, people, places and various other oddities that come to my mind. A series somehow I thought would give me more motivation to post freq...
So what the heck is \'arranged marriage\'?
Arranged marriage is one phenomenon which seems to be the norm in some cultures, while it is totally inconceivable in others. Arranged marriage is still widely followed in south Asia and the middle east. Generations after generations, parents take it...
A visit to Antwerp, the diamond city
The plan was not to visit Antwerp on Diwali, but it just so happened that a friend of mine from India, who now lives in the US came to attend a conference in France! phew! So I met her half way through in Belgium. Lying in the north east of Belgium, ...
The Lighted Route in Eindhoven (Lichtjesroute)
Eindhoven was liberated on September 18th, 1944 by the Allies in World War II. The soldiers were welcomed with lamps outside their homes. Since then, every year, the citizens placed lamps along the route that the Allies took in Eindhoven to celebrate...
