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Photos – Hampi

Vita Kala — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:17:22 +0000

The original posts are here and there.

Photos – Aurangabad

Vita Kala — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:43:38 +0000

Here are the original posts :)

Photos – Mumbai

Vita Kala — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:26:07 +0000

I’ve been in Mumbai 3 times: the first day when I arrived to India I went to a National Park, then on my way from Goa to Aurangabad I had a look at a museum and a zoo, and finally at the beginning of January I spent there 10 days during the conference.

Photos – Nasik

Vita Kala — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:30:08 +0000

I’m finally back home (in fact, already in Vienna for another math conference). Here are some photos from Nasik, one of the most sacred cities in India, where I spent four days around the New Year.

Celebrity

Vita Kala — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 06:20:22 +0000

If you have any unfulfilled dreams of being a celebrity, go to a place full of Indian tourists and no foreign ones. For example the Daulatabad fort will do great. I met exactly two other foreigners and thousands of Indians there. They were asking me my name, country, following me around, wanting to take photos with me (sometimes I refused, sometimes not) – no autographs though. The school trips were best, I even got an offer from a (maybe 15 year old) girl to take her home with me!

But mostly (unless the people were too “aggressive”) I didn’t mind this all too much, just found it strangely amusing. And as elsewhere in India, I had a couple of nice conversations, though limited by our knowledge of English and Hindi/Marathi. And no one knows Czech Republic, so I mostly just say Europe as my country. And if they enquire more, Czechoslovakia has a decent chance of success.

The fort itself is amazing and huge, with a special dark curving passageway through which any attackers would have to pass while the defenders would welcome them with burning coal, arrows, and boiling water. Nowadays it’s a great place for bats.