Taste evolves. Time for another compare and contrast.
01: Bonobo – Black Sands
02: Four Tet – There is Love in You
03: Caribou – Swim
04: Sigur Ros – Takk
05: The Album Leaf – In a Safe Place
06: Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
07: Fat Freddy’s Drop – Dr Boondigga and the Big BW
08: RJD2 – The Colossus
09: Cyne [...]
This post serves to tie together all the media for this trip in one easy reference for family members.
Blog posts:
Ahmedabad
Gir
Our Guides
The Last Free Market
Transliteration
Photos:
Ahmedabad
Somnath and Gir
Family
Videos (on YouTube)
The Gujarati alphabet is purely phonetic. If you can pronounce a word correctly, you can spell it correctly. The rules are fairly simple. Unique letters exist for consonant sounds, and are accented in several ways (or not accented at all) depending on the vowel sound that follows. Hybrid consonant sounds are formed by literally mashing [...]
Defenders of a free market would do well to visit India. While technically actions in the country are subject to regulation, lax enforcement and a thriving black market allow one to observe a much closer approximation to a free market than anywhere else.
If I had to pick one word to describe the pace and flow [...]
Undoubtedly the best way to see Ahmedabad is with a personal driver and tour guide, which will run you no more than $100 for a single day. I strongly recommend getting in touch with the following people.
Tour Guide: Mr. Jamshed Turner
Jamshed gives guided tours in English and French for visitors to Ahmedabad. There is no [...]