New town, Udaipur

Street Hustlers in Udaipur

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March 15th 2007
I jokingly said to a friend that it is impossible to feel lonely in India. It seems like you have all of a sudden a few hundred million friends. Contrast to Paris, especially if travel alone, you feel that you are in a social void. Social boundaries have a completely different definition in India. Here, you don't sense a lot of the excessive politeness or chilly formality you encounter in most of ... read more

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The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more