trinket vendor in pushkar

The Bus Ride from Hell

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April 23rd 2008
Things are going along quite nicely here in Jaipur. Yesterday marked our two month anniversary of being at this practicum. Yesterday we also got back from a 5 day field visit to the remote district of Shahabad. It’s in Rajasthan near the border of Madhya Pradesh and it was about a 12 hour bus ride. That’s pretty long considering that the distance was just over 400 kilometer ... 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