Street life

From one extreme to another

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February 26th 2006
Greetings from Mumbai!! Here's what's happened since my last update. It's pretty long so perhaps copy and paste it into Word so it looks like you're working, or print it off and read it on the loo. Wed 15/2 - Very easy day. Read a book called Chasing the Monsoon by Alexander Frater who travels up the west coast of India with the monsoon - funnily enough. Thoroughly recommended. Was thinking of ... 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