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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes Atop Uttari Betta

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Photograph taken on top of Uttari Betta (Hutridurga) in Karnataka, India.
Photograph taken on top of Uttari Betta (Hutridurga) in Karnataka, India.
Photograph taken on top of Uttari Betta (Hutridurga) in Karnataka, India.

DAILY PHOTO: The Well-worn Path

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Photograph of the well-worn trail up to Netravati Peak in Karnataka, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Log-Loving Creatures of Mysore Zoo

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Photograph of a bear taking rest on a log at Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a leopard on a log at Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a snake in the reptile house of Mysore Zoo.
Photograph of a Chimp with a stick at Mysore Zoo

DAILY PHOTO: Bull

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Photograph of a Brahma Bull taken near Mussoorie in Uttarakhand, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Gates of Lucknow

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Photograph of an old city gate in Lucknow, India.
Photograph of the Bailley Guard Gate at Kaiser Bagh in Lucknow, India.
Photograph of a Gate on Husainabad Trust Road near the Chota Imambada in Lucknow.
Gate on Husainabad Trust Road between the Rumi Darwaza and the Chota Imambada.
Photograph of a gate near Shah Najaf Imambara Sher in Lucknow, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Miniature Taj, Kolkata

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Photograph of the scale-model Taj Mahal at 7 Wonders in the Eco Park of Kolkata, India.

DAILY PHOTO: Agartala Jaganath Mandir

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Photograph of a pink-topped temple in the Shri Jaganath Mandir Temple complex in Agartala, Tripura, India.

PROMPT: Cultural Tradition

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Daily writing prompt
What’s a cultural tradition from another country that you wish existed in yours?
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The Langar Hall (found in Punjab, Haryana, and wherever else Sikhs are found) is an excellent tradition. They are places that serve free communal meals every day. It’s not like a soup kitchen that attracts only poor, nor is it like the many institutions that make meals (implicitly or explicitly) only for one particular ingroup (e.g. members of a particular religion.)

DAILY PHOTO: The Taj Mahal

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Photograph of the Taj Mahal taken in Agra, India.

BOOK: “Venus in India” by Charles Devereaux

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Venus in India or Love Adventures in HindustanVenus in India or Love Adventures in Hindustan by Charles Devereaux
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Available online – Wikisource

This novel is presented as the erotically-charged memoir of a British military officer stationed in India. While separated from his wife by his assignment, he has a couple major (and many minor) dalliances with other women, one with the loose wife of another officer and the other the daughter of his commanding officer — who he is charged with mentoring.

Compared with other Victorian erotica, this book does have more story and character development than other books with which I’m familiar. In other words, what goes on between the sheets (or in the grass or on a table) is not the sum total of the book. Interesting events happen outside the sex and there is at least the pretense of emotional arcs for important characters. This makes the book feel more like a true memoir rather than a collection of “Dear Penthouse” tales.

If you like stories of the historic ex-pat life and / or Victorian erotica, you’ll likely enjoy this book.

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