December 16, 2017 / Silk River
India Day 10 – Part One: Kidderpore
“Heritage isn’t only about buildings” says Rishika Mukhopadhyay who has joined us for today’s walk, “it’s about the intangible too, culture and memories, the things we can’t see.”
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December 16, 2017 / News Coverage
December 15, 2017 / India Blog, Silk River
India Day 10 – Topsy Turvy
There is something going on with the geography of Calcutta that I don’t understand. It ought to be simple.
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December 15, 2017 / India Blog, Silk River
India Day 9 – Knots
Ask any British person where in the world they would like to go, at least once in their life, and I’ll bet that a visit to India would be at the top of the list. And if there was one experience that such potential visitors would specify, it would be a journey on Indian railways.
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December 13, 2017 / News Coverage
December 13, 2017 / India Blog, Silk River
India Day 8 – Trades
It’s our last day on the river today. We leave at seven in a fast-running tide that’s carrying rafts of water hyacinth along, some of them inhabited by pond herons.
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December 12, 2017 / India Blog, Silk River
India Day 7 – Doors
After breakfast we take a bus through Barrackpore and get down near the river a few kilometres upstream from where we are staying. Then we walk down a small lane with walls on both sides.
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December 11, 2017 / Silk River
Photos – Silk River India so far!
The photos from the Silk River journey so far by Mike Johnston.
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December 11, 2017 / India Blog, Silk River
India Day 6 – Precision
Dawn eases the world into view from the boat. We are anchored off Chandannagar where today there will be a parade. It’s the best yet. We walk down The Strand with drummers and a team of acrobats on stilts wearing peacock feather headdresses.
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December 11, 2017 / News Coverage, Silk River
News from Nadia
Walk To Rebuild Cultural Bond Between Hooghly And Thames. The news coverage of the Silk River walk keeps coming! This article appeared on the News from Nadia website on 9th December.
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