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Travel: Bhimbetka Caves, Madhya Pradesh

        Rock stars Sheila Kumar and her intrepid aunt Uma  take off to view the Bhimbetka rock shelters near Bhopal    “Why not Khajuraho? Or the Orchcha temples? The stupa at Sanchi? We could have chilled out at Panchmarhi, or gone tiger-spotting in Bandavgarh.”   The person shooting off these questions is me….

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Travel: Andaman Islands

  Paradise islands More than a year after the tsunami, the Andaman and  Nicobar islands are seeing a new rush of visitors. Sheila Kumar is among them The tsunami of December 2004 savaged the Nicobar Islands, and did not spare the Andamans either. A series of unrelenting tremblers inflicted damage on roads and buildings, submerged lighthouses and…

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