Dianne Sharma-Winter is a New Zealand whose passion is India, and she spends much of her time there. She lives there, organises tours, gives advice, promotes fair trade and Ethical Travel along the way - here she writes about what all that means.... … [Read more...]
VOLUNTEERING IN INDIA – Look to your motives!
Dianne Sharma-Winter runs Women Travel India and here she writes about voluteering in India: Hot on the heels of a recent article I wrote about why India doesn't need you to volunteer, I was lured into doing the very thing I advised against! For the next three months I have committed my time and energy to volunteering at Sambhali Women and Girl Empowerment Centre in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and am currently living with 15 rambunctious girls in a … [Read more...]
Honesty box – a way of life in New Zealand
Dianne Sharma-Winter reflects on a NZ icon. Before gourmet food stores, restaurants and magazines (and we have some great ones), there was the honesty box by the side of the road - and its still there! … [Read more...]
Broome: Pearls, Blackbirding and Sorry Business
Dianne Sharma-Winter writes about her stay in Broome, Western Australia I haven't really had much of an exploration of town and around Broome since I arrived here. I have seen the iconic sunsets and the camel trains along Cable Beach, I have witnessed the high speed jaw snapping tail whipping woman eating crocodiles from a safe distance and generally pondered the seemingly infinity of red earth space between here and anywhere else. Last year in … [Read more...]
Slow Travel on the River of Life in India
Dianne Sharma-Winter writes: One of the many names for the river Ganga (or Ganges) translates to “Roaming around delighting in Apple Tree Island” Anyone who has plotted the course of this river knows that this is exactly what the Ganga likes to do. Her riverbanks have changed many miles over the course of time and then there is the monsoon where she breaks her banks exuberantly. Slow travel is a bit like that. I have had the luck to roam around … [Read more...]
