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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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Travel: Ross Island, Andamans

Where time stands still Ross Island is a jaw-dropping walk down the Raj lane.  The Andaman group of islands has a lot to offer the visitor, from the Cellular Jail, where sadness seeps from the stones like something out of a Marquez novel, and coves and beaches where you find shells of rare and luminous…

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