Even the local monks despair at the state of the Indian roads, not clever

North India

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July 30th 2007
So, after two weeks of R & R in Glasgow and London it was time to get back to the 'real world' of global travel and become reacquainted with smelly Delhi. I was last here nearly 10 years ago, but very little has changed in Pahar Ganj - the de facto traveller ghetto - although the begging lepers have moved to another colony (something to do with police and big sticks me thinks) and there are sligh ... 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