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Thursday, May 22, 2008 11:16 AM

Day 37: Why Vikram Vij should move back to India PHOTOS

( Photo: #35 in line at Vij's ) Everywhere we went in Vancouver his name shadowed us. On the first night in the city we hit a bar with a friend. "Vij's is just down this road," he said. "You must go." At our favourite food...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 7:51 PM

Day 36: Long walks, warm days PHOTOS!

The last three days were the warmest we've experienced since we left Mumbai: 26-28 deg C. It was wonderful to feel the sun warm upon our skins and watch Vancouver -- a languid melting pot of a city, of endless sea coasts -- come alive. People were...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:53 AM

Day 35: Checkmated on Vancouver's streets, PHOTOS!

There's a chess champion in this photo. The portly man on the right is David Strauss, known and feared on Vancouver's vibrant street chess scene. He plays upto 100 opponents at the same time. This is his modus operandi: David sets up his table...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 10:40 AM

Day 34: So this is what you call public art in Vancouver? PHOTO!

We spotted these chairs fitted into the sand on Vancouver's sea wall. Art, my brother-in-law Gyan said. So what's wrong with Bombay's Jitesh Kallat then? PS: As you can see, we've finally figured out the photos (shot mostly by me, I might...
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Friday, May 16, 2008 10:14 PM

Day 33: Where life is too short for boring food

If, like us, you love chillies, don't miss the "Wall of Fire" at Granville Island, 10 minutes from downtown Vancouver. It's located in the Granville Island Public Market, a fiery wall of shelves stocked with chilly sauces from all over...
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Friday, May 16, 2008 6:23 PM

Day 33: Why am I walking on Carter Road when I could be running in Stanley Park?

It's 1000 acres in the heart of Vancouver. It has the sea, beaches, a lost lagoon, glorious old cedar trees, wild and manicured picnic spots, forest paths, waterways, ducks, zillions of flowers, so many colours of rhodendrons, black squirrels, ducks...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:51 AM

Day 31: How Indians used to travel

So we're sitting in Vancouver looking up scanned copies of Sherwoodian, the magazine of the school our fathers went to. There's a hilarious essay about Indians and travelling abroad. It was a senior prizewinning essay in 1959...alas I can't...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:34 AM

Day 31: The Jana Gana Mana revolution on YouTube

Today I discovered there are zillions of kiddie versions of the Indan National Anthem on YouTube. All NRIs who have to stay connected to their desh I guess. I know my brother Gyan, who's our host in Vancouver, is one of them. All his children can...
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