Minaret vu de plus près

Delhi on our minds

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August 10th 2007
ANGLICHE Delhi: It's old and it's new. The new is broad boulevards, Britisher buildings and monuments and guarded gates; the old is tightly packed bazaars, paan stalls, paan stains and makeshift shelters by the roadside. But there's more, much more even if you only have a few days. Independence day in Delhi meant not only that most everything (save Pizza Hut and the government empor ... 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