July 7th, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in dispatch, tech
The quick and easy way. Provided you have a Nokia 3G phone, a Mac, and an Airtel prepaid card. Also available on Windows PCs, Hutch, and other phones, but I have no experience with the rest of them.
To make things easier, make photocopies of your passport, Indian visa, and your identity card. (Because the Singapore [...]
July 6th, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in dispatch
A Passage to India
Air India Not So Express
Being cheap as always, I flew Air India Express, Air India’s “budget”, point-to-point subsidiary, to Chennai (Madras). The one way ticket with taxes included cost me just S$267 (US$175), which, if you think about it, isn’t that great but (1) nobody will sell me an affordable one way [...]
July 2nd, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in food and music, travel
Two months long, in fact. I’ve planned my entire sojourn around India and Nepal around food: in my twisted little head the North/South and East/West dichotomies in culture and tourism are really about the variations of regional cuisine I’m expecting. Instead of Chennai and Tamil Nadu, I think idli. Instead of Hyderabad, I can’t help [...]
July 1st, 2007 | by popagandhi | published in tech
Something about this breaks my heart.
