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The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon   Me and my wife Neha took a 10-day holiday in Myanmar early this month. Here are our first impressions Burma, now officially known as Myanmar, has an old worldly charm that India’s north eastern states once had: green topography, laidback atmosphere, poor but proud…

Video reports of our 1250 km, bone-rattling journey in Ladakh. http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/ground-report-from-ladakh-s-neglected-border-areas-576629   http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/villages-in-ladakh-along-china-border-yearn-for-development-576977   http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/near-the-border-in-ladakh-soldiers-challenged-by-lack-of-roads-577430   http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/in-ladakh-life-of-a-refugee-bordering-on-misery-578043 All the above reports were based on this journey chronicled below. Day I, 28 July: We leave Leh, Ladakh’s capital exactly at 7. In fact when you travel in the mountains, its always…