Kumbakonam Host Family

This is my wonderful host family who made the amazing breakfast feast (described in my attached blog) and fortunately kidnapped me long enough to eat it. They are standing in their garden in front of a collum-art created with chalk dust on sidewalks and entryways for holidays, celebrations and to welcome special guests--like me!

Mixed Blessings & Bathroom Blog

January 21st 2006
Good Evening, All! It is Saturday morning on your side of the world, but I'm writing you from a brisk evening at a vacation "hill station." It is wonderful here! It is like a European village...I can hardly believe I'm in India...it isn't like the India I've seen anywhere else...wait til you see the pics! Anyway, we don't want to leave, but we have tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night, and the ... 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

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