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Les Trois Voyageurs Special Edition – The Singapore Comic Con 2011

22nd
Aug. × ’11
By Rindo

…and we’re back! Much remains to be said about the legendary journey of Man, Woman and Machine that I never got around to recording on this blog. Udaipur, Jaipur, Agra and Manali bore witness to some absurd antics by these three, from getting herded out by security for trying to smuggle a “potential weapon hazard” [...]

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Dark of the Moon: The Day I Saw “Transformers” Before Everybody Else

13th
Jul. × ’11
By Rindo

Say what you will about unhealthy periods of online activity and the lack of social life it implies. Trawling the Internet 18 hours a day does have its merits. So there I was, one fine day, digging up obscure memes, Kegel exercises for the terminally lazy, and various other matters of pressing importance, when I [...]

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Les Trois Voyageurs: Day 3, No Horn OK Please

28th
May. × ’11
By Rindo

Marie loved Laburnum Road.   If the bus ride from Colaba along scenic Marine Drive on an idle Monday morning (while everyone else was rushing to work, heh heh) wasn’t it, or the delicious mutton kheema golata at the Cafe New York, it was most definitely this sign: This is a Silent Zone: Do Not [...]

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Les Trois Voyageurs: Day 2, In and Around Mumbai

11th
May. × ’11
By Rindo

Optimus Prime, it turns out, is an excellent ice-breaker. At the Leopold Cafe, while I was taking pictures of Optimus Prime with the bullet-ridden marble panel in the background, the waiters got all excited and asked me if the figure could actually transform. A question, folks, I was dying to hear. In the course of [...]

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Zen, and the Art of Travelling Shotgun – Day 1, Mumbai

9th
May. × ’11
By Rindo

Tourists come in all shapes and sizes: there are the curious ones, the frantic picture-clicking ones, the adventurous ones, the meditative, the kooky. Sometimes they throng the popular vacation spots, and sometimes they choose isolated no man’s lands, where they have a sporting chance of being lost or shot, and yet strangely find peace too. [...]

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