Boy with his squash-like vegetable

In Devaraja Market

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December 2nd 2008
On Monday, we headed to downtown Mysore to replenish our book supply at a 3-story bookstore, eat a South Indian Thali (set vegetarian all-you-can-eat meal) at our favorite local place (Das Prakash Hotel) ($.90), and wonder around Devaraja Market, an everything market -- veggies, fruit, flowers, cane sugar, pots and pans, plastic-ware, incense, essential oils, wood carvings, everything everything e ... 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