Tibetan Review
Vistet left a comment on my journal article blog post and gave me a link to a very interesting article on travel guides on Tibet. I guess it would be interesting to read a travel guide about a place where you have lived all your life. All those mistakes, the cultural misunderstandings that can creep in, would make an interesting read. Here is a short quote from the article.
Sample humour ranges from the awful pun "The Daily Lama" (a proposed newspaper) , to unintended Sinic typographic error "All loads lead to Lhasa ..."
posted by Mridula at 10:29 PM
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I'll have to read the article! but I don't have time this morning.
Hi
I am Tarun here, I am planning a Blogcamp in India (Pune), if possible try to make it to it, if not then do try to participate through internet, using Youtube, Slideshare etc.
I have found few other guys who are also very enthusiastic about having a Blogcamp. We are already in process of contacting some good bloggers like you and others on Blogosphere.
The venue will be SCIT Pune (Symbiosis Center for IT). We are already talking to a few people to sponsor food, tshirts and goodies. But all these things are secondary. Success of a Blogcamp is dependent upon it's participants and that is where we are focusing right now.
Do share you thoughts on it.
You can visit our wiki (http://barcamp.org/BlogCampPune).
We also have our blog ( www.blogcamppune.blogspot.com)
Regards,
Tarun Chandel
http://tarunchandel.blogspot.com
PS: I know this is not the right place to put this invitation, but I was not able to find your email id.
Teri, no problem.
Tarun, thanks for letting me know.
Last summer, after a [url=http://www.somnaom.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=255]short jaunt [/url] in mmy home mountains , I met some ..well , angrezis with the Lonely Planet guide to Scandinavia. No way , I thought as I saw the cover shot of my favorite waffle joint , Swedens highest, baked with snow and ice and with the Northern lights above. Been there , done that, in winter storms as well , so yes it´s real , but still .. it´s .. [i]..home[/i], you can´t put that in a guide book.
Sat a while on the train reading on my old hometown etc. - strange feeling.
In some ways we both long and dread hearing about how others perceive us. Like the end point of the British dealing with their loss of power : the vaguely infuriating comment [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy]"mostlly harmless"[/url]
The other part is that the questions and attention from others change our own perceptions of ourself. "The land of the midnight sun " tag is something I would be affected by in meeting others even if I like the majority of Swedes didn´t live anywhere near the Arctic Circle.
Indians will have to deal with the angrezi obsession with cows, Tibetans will have to deal with a similar fascination with yaks, the same way I´ve met reactions to reindeer from tourists. Sometimes this kind of attention leads to rediscovery : come to think of it, reindeers are pretty cool. One reason that I could rediscover this was when I started to take some photographs to share with indiamike. In a working relation you get a chance to see yourself from another perspective. Then again , tourist-local is all to often a dysfunctional relation : start taking too many photographs with me & reindeer and I´ll get sick of both the animal and human involved..
Vistet, thanks for the lovely comment, you are alomst spoiling me. I looked at all the pictures from the first link and they are beautiful. I wonder if I will ever get to visit Sweden. Long time back knew someone from there who was a visiting faculty here in India. And your comments make me almost feel out of depth, thanks for sharing your observations. I will have to chew more on them.
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