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Old Church in Pondicherry  
   

Old Church in Pondicherry

This one has been destroyed and rebuilt so many times by the different colonial powers that Paul and I didn't even understand its history while we were there.
Welcome to French India!

January 16th 2008
Where’s The Bloody Zoo? While I was on the train heading across the Indian continent, Piscine Molitor Patel was telling me a thousand wonderful facts about the Pondicherry Zoo. Stories of exotic animals living happily in their synthetic enclosures while the young Indian boy ran amok around the area trying to collect as many religions as he possibly could were rolling around my mind as ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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