A glow in the East

The Taj Mahal etcetera

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March 5th 2008
Six o' clock!Oh my god! Nadeem is waiting outside, bleary-eyed and sleepy, but in a much better mood than I. I'm firmly of the opinion that the Taj can wait til lunchtime, when I've had my sleep. Nadeem drops us as close to the Taj as he can, and we walk down an alley. The chai stalls are already firing up their cookers for the earlybird tourists. After being deprived of 700r each (!) at the g ... 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