Cricket on the Ganges

Varanasi

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December 3rd 2005
This is the place where people wash their sins away in the Ganges from the Gats on shore. Oh, they also burn their dead and do their washing on the shore amongst other things. Simple. It's also the place where they have a funny tradition of flying kites and all day there are loads of them in the sky. They use abrasive line to fight each other and cut each other down. Needless to say we had to hav ... 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