Trying to capture the Mumbai chaos

Arrival and Mumbai

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March 8th 2006
Well, I'm here, and safe, and it's bloody hot. And humid. Sitting upstairs in an internet cafe in Fort Cochin in Kerala, having just wandered up and down the beach front looking at all the fish that have just been landed with the famous chinese fishing nets. Nice to be out in Cochin, where it's a bit less hectic than Mumbai. Arriving was something else. Wall of heat, a million security guards ... 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