Author: autorickshaw
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Autorickshaw Meter Tour Blog Week 2
Music to read this blog by: Thom Petti Meter by Autorickshaw When we last left off, we were boarding an overnight train from Mumbai to Delhi… December 12 We departed at 11pm from Mumbai and arrived in Delhi at approximately 5pm the next day. Train travel is one of the most civilized modes of…
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Autorickshaw Meter World Tour Blog – Week 1
Week 1: HORN OK PLEASE Song to read this blog by: Horn OK Please Meter by Autorickshaw Dec 4-5 TRAVEL DAY We had an uneventful direct flight to Mumbai from Toronto, arriving 1 hour later than anticipated due to bad weather (a cyclone that came up from south India). In related news, here’s our own personal…
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One Stamp, Two Stamp, Red Stamp, Blue Stamp (a cautionary border-crossing tale)
How did we end up in this mess? A quick refresher… We were originally booked on a Spicejet flight from Kathmandu to Bagdogra (Nepal to India) on our way to Kalimpong, but Spicejet was going under (no one would sell them fuel at the time), and cancelled the flight, so we hastily booked a flight…
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India Tour Blog Chapter 4: Nepal
Chapter 4: Nepal Picture Kathmandu, and all sorts of exotic images probably come to mind: majestic mountains, Buddhist temples, and ancient history. You’d be partly right, and you’d see them all eventually… once the smog clears. Kathmandu is one of the world’s most polluted cities: the usual developing-nation issue of dirty engines and energy, multiplied…
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India Tour Blog Chapter 3: Delhi to Kathmandu
Dec 7 Days 9-10 Delhi The capital of India, and the seat of so much of India’s history. Yet, we still don’t really know the place at all. Suba’s last visit was when she was eight. Ed breezed through a couple of years ago, but never really got a feel for the place.…
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India Tour Blog Chapter 2: Bhopal
Click Here for Chapter One. For pictures only, check out Ed’s Photo Gallery. Or, have them both open for a multimedia experience! Dec 2 Day 4: Bhopal Ed was 14 years old when the Bhopal Disaster happened. He was affected deeply by the news coverage at the time, and it never left him:…
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Three new tour videos!
Seasonal Greetings from Kolkata! We haven’t posted much of late, simply because we’ve been so busy, compounded by internet connectivity problems in a couple places. There are detailed blog posts coming, but here are three videos from our recent time in Kalimpong, India, where we were working with the kids at the Gandhi Ashram School.…
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New album charting in Canada
Our new album, The Humours of Autorickshaw, is charting on Canadian independent radio:
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Autorickshaw in WholeNote Magazine
Andrew Timar and The WholeNote Magazine are doing an ongoing series on our India/Nepal tour, and here are the first two articles: Click below for .pdf files: TheWholeNote_2004_FINAL 24 TheWholeNote_2004_FINAL 23 We also appeared in a Bhopal newspaper after our performance on Dec 3rd, the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, premiering our song…
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India Tour Blog Chapter 1: Mumbai
Nov 28-30. Day 1-ish – Travel It was about 27 hours of travel… nearly 39 including the time change. We left a mild-winter, -1 degree Toronto on Friday, Nov 28, and arrived in humid, 27 degree Mumbai in the wee hours of Nov 30. People talk about “time change” when travelling, but it’s really more…