Birthday Girl

These are not my people

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December 9th 2007
So I think it is fair to say we have reached a more serious part of the programme. One week into Mysore life, and I am really finding it hard to settle into the whole yoga scene. Mysore itself is quite nice really - the Maharaja's Palace is nice, although the 90,000 lightbulbs that twinkle all over it on a Sunday night make it look like a bad disneyland ride. This is the home of silk and sandalwoo ... 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