Comments on: What India Taught Me: A Taxi Nightmare and Where Lost Baggage Goes to Die https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/ Travel That Cares for Our Planet and Its People Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:37:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-1463404 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 22:10:20 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-1463404 In reply to Pawan Sehrawat.

Thanks, Pawan! Glad you enjoyed it and laughed out loud. That was my intent. Your comment has me laughing now, especially thinking back to those taxi drivers. I’m glad to hear that the situation has improved, but in this odd way I’m glad to have had the experience I did. Thank you for your compliment, for taking the time to comment and for sharing your perspective from a village near Delhi.

]]> By: Pawan Sehrawat https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-1463382 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 10:25:04 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-1463382 Hi………chanced on your above post today and laughed out loud for almost 15 minutes while reading it. The way you described your experience is very interesting and involving. Further, I was viewing / reading your post as a character from the other side of the fence, that is, being a local of Delhi. The Delhi airport has been constructed near my ancestral village and I spent my childhood playing in the fields near the airport. A lot of taxis at the airport were from our vicinity and I knew a few of taxi drivers who used to fleece foreigners with one trick or the other. They often boasted how they fooled tourists and your deduction is correct in saying they meant no physical harm.
Situation has improved vastly in last 20 years which includes the taxis and hotels.
I read your articles on your visit across other places and was very impressed. Thanks for the info and keep up the goods work.

]]> By: Sunaina S https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-356292 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:14:03 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-356292 Interesting post! I think u should visit India one more time.. 🙂 😉

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-153997 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:15:27 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-153997 @Madhu: Yes, India is a unique place. One that we enjoy. Glad you like the 360 panorama of the ghat in Udaipur. The software we use for spherical panoramas is Autopano Giga and Tour.

And we are glad that you found our website. More on India soon (I know I’ve been promising the next in the series of this piece forever.) We literally just finished our India photos (from our visit 2 years ago). Like a good tea, India experiences take time to steep.

]]> By: Madhu Nair https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-149335 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:19:23 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-149335 Hi guys,
Lovely read …

What s/w are you using for the 360deg view of the Ghat?
It is fabulous.

India can drive a sane person up the wall … 🙂

Anyways … I am glad I found your website … Lots of info …

Cheers!

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-88286 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 06:26:41 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-88286 @marylouise: Namaste! There was a promise. Then there was a case of multiple failed hard drives that took a few well-intentioned drafts with it. Thus the grueling delay.

I’m going to go out on a limb and do something that my mother told me never to do: make a promise. Part II of this series will come later this month. A delayed holiday gift to our readers…and myself.

@Adam: Great to see you here and thank you for your comment. I’m not sure I’d characterize India as backward — particularly these days. For sure, its ways are unique. Maybe I’d use the word circuitous. But I get what you are saying. The place is perplexing…in a vaguely addictive sort of way.

Your experience of buying bus tickets in Jodhpur reminds me of buying train tickets in India 13 years ago, a process that was a far cry from today’s ease of purchasing train tickets online. There was never any clarity, even once the tickets were purchased and money exchanged hands.

In any event, things do have a way of working in India, in their own way.

]]> By: Adam https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-84388 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:56:23 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-84388 Great recap of the craziness and chaos and seeming backwardness that is India. We were there for the first time a little over a year ago, and the story of trying to retrieve your bag sounds earily similar to our attempt to buy bus tickets in Jodhpur. It seemed as though we were getting a massive run-around that made no sense at all, but eventually, it just worked, much like everything in India. I don’t know how it works, but it just does. I can’t even imagine dealing with India 13 years ago with the lack of technology that is there today, much less on a first big trip.

India is just a place you really have to experience yourself to truly understand it, but you do a fantastic job of describing it. I look forward to more!

]]> By: marylouise sillman https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-81107 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:21:10 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-81107 Namaste! I return to your India site from time to time with the hope of additional marvelous stories on your India adventures………seems as though there was a promise of 2 or 3 more to be written????

]]> By: Daniel Noll https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-15833 Tue, 04 May 2010 08:00:53 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-15833 @Chris: Excellent points. Even in May, places like Varanasi and Calcutta were 100-105+ degrees F (~40 C). Although we have not yet been to Ladakh, a summer trip there sounds like an excellent idea to us.

]]> By: Chris Haskett https://uncorneredmarket.com/what-india-taught-me-part-1-a-taxi-nightmare-and-where-lost-baggage-goes-to-die/#comment-15814 Tue, 04 May 2010 04:40:34 +0000 http://uncorneredmarket.com/?p=2009#comment-15814 @promise: if it has to be July, you should know that it will be very hot and very rainy in virtually all of India. The obvious exception is Ladakh, in the northernmost part of the country. That will cover old very nicely, but will not be very ‘India,’ and definitely not be very ‘city.’ Lots of old Buddhist monasteries and some very traditional farming villages, plus very very friendly people, and mountain-climbing type adventures if youre looking for that.

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