Places to visit in India

It's been over five years since my husband and I last visited India. I'm anxious to reconnect with family and friends.

Here's a video that I created in Google Earth Pro.



This is the list of places where I'd like to visit:

city	state
Delhi	DL
Kolkata	WB
Bankura	WB
Bardhman	WB
Bengaluru	KA
Kozhikode	KL
Aldona	GA
Mumbai	MH
Vadodara	GJ

Cultural heritage or natural heritage first?

Protection of India's heritage, both cultural and natural, is one of the themes that the Bahu of Bengal covers on this blog.

Here is a story where development pits cultural heritage against natural heritage, titled Flamingos lost forever:

Flamingos at the Sewri mudflats near Mumbai

Source: lh5.ggpht.com via Bahu of Bengal on Pinterest

Construction work on the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link will damage the habitat for flamingos and migratory birds at Sewri, near Mumbai.  An alternative route would be near Elephanta Caves, a heritage site where construction is limited.

Mumbai: Islamist Terror's New Modus Operandi

From the Middle East Times, an excellent article about the change in MO of Islamic terrorists.

One item stands out in particular:
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One of the main reasons for the terrorists switching tactics was to grab the world's attention. In fact as of last week before Mumbai, how many people knew that after Iraq India was the second country in the world most afflicted by terrorism? I would suspect not many. Nonetheless from January 2004 to today, over 4,100 people have died as a result of terrorist attacks in India.
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Indeed, I was angry at the media's indifference to bomb blasts in India. Bomb blasts had become commonplace. Even people in India had become indifferent. I had fallen down on the job. I had tracked the bomb blasts on Tagzania, but so many bomb blasts had happened, that I didn't keep up.