Title: The Ghana Experience (
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Reminiscing about Ghana - 17/Jun/2012 10:48 - 4554 days ago
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Blog is now E-book - 05/Jan/2012 17:15 - 4718 days ago
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Blog Ends! - 05/Jul/2011 10:58 - 4902 days ago
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Coming Back II - 04/Jul/2011 09:49 - 4903 days ago
19 June- 4 July 2011My friends Rahul and Ranjit had come to see me off at the airport. After passing through the customs check a...
Coming Back I - 04/Jul/2011 09:43 - 4903 days ago
22 May- 19 June 2011I have always observed that when something comes to an end, there is always a surge in the activities. Same ...
Not Black Not White - 21/May/2011 21:15 - 4947 days ago
21 May 2010In the country of black people, a person like me, who does not belong to that race, is an attraction. I am some body ...
Story of Big 10 - 21/May/2011 20:48 - 4947 days ago
1-20 May 2010Yesterday, I had gone to Bolgatanga and went to an internet café after finishing all of my work. I frequent this i...
Ghana Wildlife Tour V- Sacred Grove and the Journey Back - 16/May/2011 16:38 - 4952 days ago
30 March 2011We decided that it was going to be the last day of our tour. We had been on the move for more than 8 days. I had a ...
Ghana Wildlife Tour IV- Sacred Monkeys - 15/May/2011 21:21 - 4953 days ago
28- 30 March 2011We had not given proper thought to the next leg of the journey. We were sure about spending some more days tour...
Ghana Wildlife Tour III- Elephants of Mole - 15/May/2011 21:18 - 4953 days ago
25- 27 March 2011After hippos, it was the turn of elephants to give us a sighting, for which we were heading to Mole National Pa...
Ghana Wildlife Tour II- Hippos of Wechiau - 13/May/2011 22:23 - 4955 days ago
24- 25 April 2011In the Upper West Region, we came across a new word for white man. After getting used to being called Obruni (T...
Ghana Wildlife Tour I- Jirapa - 13/May/2011 22:22 - 4955 days ago
21 March -23 April 2011It has been more than a month and I have not written anything on the blog. In spite of the fact that I di...
The Difference A Smile Can Make - 22/Mar/2011 17:19 - 5007 days ago
21 March 2011I was conducting a meeting with a women's co-operative in the Bongo district. The co-operative is engaged in proces...
Moving On - 20/Mar/2011 20:03 - 5009 days ago
20 March 2011Today is the day when my actual stay here is mostly over by 75%. It is also the day, where I realize that many of t...
Beating the Heat - 20/Mar/2011 19:51 - 5009 days ago
4 -19 March 2011It is the peak hot season and today I took a ride on the back of an open truck. It gave me a kind of adrenaline ...
Navrongo and Tongo - 03/Mar/2011 18:17 - 5026 days ago
3 March 2011There are many similarities between this part of Africa and India. One of them is the names of the villages. I found...
Exploring Food (and Drink) IV - 02/Mar/2011 17:08 - 5027 days ago
12 February to 2 March 2011If one is really open to various types of foods, then Ghana offers a wide variety of foods. Many of t...
Girls in Bongo - 16/Feb/2011 09:28 - 5041 days ago
31 January to 11 February 2011----------Before starting to read this post, one has to keep in mind that I am writing about real ...
Your Mummy Wants to Buy Tomatoes - 02/Feb/2011 18:35 - 5055 days ago
26-30 January 2011“Abo!”, I heard the loud call once late in the evening while I was in the kitchen. They use this word to a...
Hunger - 29/Jan/2011 14:20 - 5059 days ago
18-25 January 2010While working in the development sector, one keeps on hearing words such as poverty, livelihoods, food securit...
Guineafowls - 19/Jan/2011 14:50 - 5069 days ago
17 January 2011My work here in Bongo District Assembly involves study of some interventions identified by the district assembly ...
Harmattan - 19/Jan/2011 14:45 - 5069 days ago
15-16 January 2010Harmattan is the characteristic season of the Sahelian West Africa. The season, which starts from late Novembe...
The Unvisited Witches Camp of Gambaga - 15/Jan/2011 12:42 - 5073 days ago
2-14 January 2011It was the second day of the year 2011 and also a day off being the weekend. We decided to spend the day by goi...
Volunteers' Parties - 12/Jan/2011 12:57 - 5076 days ago
28 December 2010- 1 January 2011I had never celebrated Christmas or New Year before in India. I, not being Christian, not follow...
Malaria Me Too - 08/Jan/2011 15:19 - 5080 days ago
19-27 December 2010When I read several blogs of people who had traveled to Africa and also of some of the VSO volunteers working...
Fun with the Titles - 05/Jan/2011 11:49 - 5083 days ago
18 December 2010It was day of Azambene (local fire festival) and I was asking the lady who cleans the office about when the func...
My Cooking in Ghana - 23/Dec/2010 14:31 - 5096 days ago
17 December 2010It started when I arrived in Bongo. I was not very experienced in cooking but liked to try my hand in the kitche...
Indians in Ghana - 18/Dec/2010 17:58 - 5101 days ago
4 -11 December 2010I don't live here in Ghana amongst Indians and have not came here with an intention to do so. Volunteering is...
Azambene - 18/Dec/2010 17:54 - 5101 days ago
12-16 December 2010It is December and it is the month of the festival here. There is a common factor in majority of the traditio...
National Farmers' Day - 18/Dec/2010 17:47 - 5101 days ago
3rdDecember 2010It is a national holiday in Ghana but this is the day on which Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) is suppos...
Accra Again II - 18/Dec/2010 17:40 - 5101 days ago
26thNovember to 2ndDecember 2010Some more interesting things were in store for me during this visit to Accra. One was my visit t...
Accra Again I - 18/Dec/2010 17:35 - 5101 days ago
26thNovember to 2ndDecember 2010Volunteers like me who live in the rural areas in the northern corner of Ghana always like to gr...
NAFAC - 14/Dec/2010 11:11 - 5105 days ago
18-21 November 2010NAFAC means National Festival for Arts and Culture. It is an event organized every year by the Ministry of Ch...
Not Made in Ghana - 26/Nov/2010 10:05 - 5123 days ago
07- 17 November 2010If you go to a bigger grocery shop to find biscuits, one can find those made in Germany, Turkey, Czek Republ...
Colorful Sirigu - 13/Nov/2010 17:32 - 5136 days ago
06 November 2010Sirigu is a small village in a corner of the Upper East Region of Ghana. This corner of Ghana formed by two dist...
Diwali at Bolgatanga - 13/Nov/2010 17:23 - 5136 days ago
05 November 2010Diwali in India means a lot. It is not just a festival of lights. It is the change of season from receding rains...
Paga - 13/Nov/2010 17:13 - 5136 days ago
04 November 2010After seeing plenty of kobs, warthogs and baboons, it was the turn of the scaly crocodiles to give a sighting to...
Mole and around: Part III - 11/Nov/2010 13:50 - 5138 days ago
03 November 2010I was very much impressed by the location of the Mole Motel and access to free wild life it offers. It also has ...
Mole and around: Part II - 11/Nov/2010 13:49 - 5138 days ago
02 November 2010It was neither a good incidence to start the blog post with nor a one to start the day as well. But my start of ...
Mole and Around: Part I - 11/Nov/2010 13:44 - 5138 days ago
01 November 2010Our first destination, as per our northern Ghana tour plan, was Mole National Park. It was our group of four thi...
Tour Planning - 11/Nov/2010 13:41 - 5138 days ago
27-31 October 2010Volunteering in Ghana has provided me with lot of opportunities and opportunity to explore a new country and i...
Exploring Food (and Drink) III - 11/Nov/2010 13:38 - 5138 days ago
26 October 2010Tuo Zafi: In short called as TZ, is a ball of cooked millet flour. The millet can be Sorghum or Nara (similar to ...
Spooky Knocks - 07/Nov/2010 15:50 - 5142 days ago
23-25 October 2010The dates which have been written on the post many times indicate not the period during which the incidences h...
The Changes within Three and Half Months - 23/Oct/2010 15:03 - 5157 days ago
14-22 October 2010There are always periods of high and low in almost every aspect of life. This is true for one's mood, health, ...
Workshop on Inclusion - 23/Oct/2010 15:00 - 5157 days ago
28-30 September 2010This blog post can be better understood by the people who are working in the development sector. The termino...
Bird Market at Zebilla - 16/Oct/2010 10:48 - 5164 days ago
13 October 2010As part of my work on development of local value chain of Guinea fowl, I have been able to see not only various f...
Tamale - 16/Oct/2010 10:36 - 5164 days ago
01-03 September 2010I left Kumasi to reach Tamale. It was my VSO Indian friend Raj who had been after me for visiting his place....
Exploration in and around Kumasi II - 16/Oct/2010 10:36 - 5164 days ago
27 September 2010We had decided to spend our second day by visiting Lake Bosumtwi near Kumasi and if time permitted then visitin...
Exploration in and around Kumasi I - 08/Oct/2010 16:30 - 5172 days ago
27 September 2010It was Sunday and we had decided to roam around the Kumasi city. We had decided to wait for Rahul who was comin...
Reaching Kumasi or Story of Privacy amongst the Strangers - 08/Oct/2010 16:17 - 5172 days ago
24-26 September 2010This blog post has some material which I would like not to be read by people with age less than 15 years. It...
A Visit to Barber - 25/Sep/2010 09:45 - 5185 days ago
20-23 September 2010I thought I should feel like the way I did when I was in school while writing on this subject. They would gi...
Random and Miscellaneous II - 25/Sep/2010 09:35 - 5185 days ago
13-19 September 2010I sometimes stay at the house of my friends Jillian and Jason. They are a nice and hospitable couple. The ro...
Random and Miscellaneous - 19/Sep/2010 09:39 - 5191 days ago
4-12 September 2010When I was writing my first blog post, I was in dilemma whether I should give titles to the posts. Because a ...
Glimpses of Bongo - 11/Sep/2010 20:00 - 5199 days ago
Traditional housing for keeping birds.Inside a typcial rural house compoundThe flowers are beautiful but this is an obnoxious pa...
Exploring Food II - 04/Sep/2010 10:44 - 5206 days ago
Exploring Food II02-03 August 2010Dawadawa- It is used as a flavouring agent in the food. It is a fruitpulp which is dried and u...
No Expectations - 04/Sep/2010 10:40 - 5206 days ago
22 August– 1 September 2010I want to be philosophical while writing this but when I say this I amexpecting something out of me...
More exploration of Kumasi - 27/Aug/2010 16:27 - 5214 days ago
21 August 2010After the end of the volunteer conference we had some more time in the next day as we had booked our return ticket...
Volunteer Conference- Day II&III - 27/Aug/2010 16:26 - 5214 days ago
19-20 August 2010I did the full use of swimming pool while I was in the hotel. Being based at Bongo, opportunites for swimming f...
Volunteer Conference- Day I - 27/Aug/2010 16:25 - 5214 days ago
18 August 2010The plan of volunteer conference included actual conference for one and half day and one and half day of sector me...
Southern Ghana Tour- Day IV - 27/Aug/2010 16:24 - 5214 days ago
17 August 2010The fourth day of our tour was spent moving around the city of Kumasi, ancient capital of Asante Kingdom. It is th...
Southern Ghana Tour- Day III - 27/Aug/2010 16:22 - 5214 days ago
16 August 2010The tour reports are very long because so many things are seen within one day and they are always special being se...
Southern Ghana Tour- Day II - 27/Aug/2010 16:21 - 5214 days ago
15 August 2010The second of the tour was special because this was the occasion for which we had decided to meet. It was the Inde...
Southern Ghana Tour- Day I - 27/Aug/2010 16:19 - 5214 days ago
13-14 August 2010All of us Indian VSO volunteers, there are only 5 of us right now, decided to meet on the occasion of independa...
Cooking Indian - 27/Aug/2010 16:14 - 5214 days ago
12 August 2010Today I got two opportunities in one day.First was related to the work. When my colleague asked for a help for pho...
About Work - 13/Aug/2010 11:16 - 5228 days ago
10 August 2010Many of the friends are interested to know what kind of work I aminvolved in here. I had not written anything abou...
Bongo Rocks - 07/Aug/2010 11:42 - 5234 days ago
7 August 2010We climbed Bongo Rocklast Saturday.It is one of the two hillocks in the Bongo village. As the name suggests it is f...
Missing the Homeland - 07/Aug/2010 11:10 - 5234 days ago
03-05 August 2010I had decided that I shall adjust to the local conditions as fast as I can and start with the routine as early ...
I'll go and come - 07/Aug/2010 10:54 - 5234 days ago
1-2 August 2010Today I'll write something about Ghanaian English which I have heard till date. In India, English is not a na...
Solemiya Zaare!!! - 01/Aug/2010 11:08 - 5240 days ago
28-31 July 2010Since coming to Bongo one word I have been commonly hearing in reference to me is Solemiya. In the local language...
Beating Loneliness - 31/Jul/2010 17:22 - 5241 days ago
27 July 2010I remember the first day when I was dropped in Bongo and Isa thie kindman who drove me from Bolga cautioned me while...
Exploring Food - 31/Jul/2010 17:20 - 5241 days ago
26 July 2010Today I thought I should write some small description of thetraditional Ghanaian foods which I have tasted till date...
Unexpected Indians - 31/Jul/2010 17:18 - 5241 days ago
24-25 July 2010After spending the Saturday cleaning the house I decided to spendSunday by exploring Bolgatanga on my own. Till d...
Silent No No - 31/Jul/2010 17:17 - 5241 days ago
22-23 July 2010These are two of my encounters with people in the last two days whereI had to say no silently.Last Sunday when I ...
No Hurry Please!!! - 22/Jul/2010 10:15 - 5250 days ago
20-21 July 2010Bongo is small place and like most of the places which are small, the pace of life here is slow. People call it a...
Getting the Side Right - 22/Jul/2010 10:14 - 5250 days ago
18-19 July 2010Being a British colony, Ghana used to drive from left side of the road in the past. Ghana got it to the right app...
Experiencing People - 18/Jul/2010 12:11 - 5254 days ago
16-17 July 2010Some of the posts might be boring for the readers as nothing excitinghappens, but these posts are serving as my d...
Trying to settle myself in Bongo - 16/Jul/2010 12:37 - 5256 days ago
13-15 July 2010Not much has happened in these three days.I have been given an accomodation in the staff quarters in thedistrict ...
First Day in Bongo and Bolga - 13/Jul/2010 12:14 - 5259 days ago
12 July 2010With the long journey from Accra to Bolgatanga and getting very lesssleep afterwards resulted in the long sleep whic...
Reaching Bongo - 13/Jul/2010 12:13 - 5259 days ago
10-11 July 2010On 10th we started for Bolgatanga. Cherith, (representative of )volunteer representative from the Upper East Regi...
A round around Accra!!! - 13/Jul/2010 12:10 - 5259 days ago
If you want to catch them all along with the driver take a photograph of the mirror, your camera will also get photographed.The ...
In Country Training and First Experience of Accra - 13/Jul/2010 12:09 - 5259 days ago
6-9 July 2010I am writing about the expereince of in country training which we wentthrough from 5-9 July. After arrival of the v...
In Country Training - 09/Jul/2010 22:30 - 5263 days ago
Relaxing between sessionsPresenting radio jingle on HIV and AIDSSexy energisers ;)Me at the VSO officeOur vibrant group!!!...
Relatively Speaking!!! - 07/Jul/2010 06:59 - 5265 days ago
5 July 2010The entire day went by openly or secretly comparing the conditions between Ghana (and sometimes Africa) with India.To...
Reaching Ghana - 07/Jul/2010 06:23 - 5265 days ago
I started my jouney from home in Mumbai at 23:00 on 3rd July. All ofthe family and my friends Mickey and Sujeet had came to drop...
Blog Starts!!! - 07/Jul/2010 06:22 - 5265 days ago
When I accepted the placement offered to me by Volunteer ServiceOverseas (VSO), there was a flood of questions and concerns dire...
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