The Spice Market

Tales of Train Travel

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November 26th 2009
After a 24-hour long train ride from Varanasi to Bhubaneswar, I feel inclined to write about a few of the hilarities and bizarre occurrences of the trains and train stations here in India! For starters, just a little description of the train system. First, booking a ticket is really a cloudy process. There are “travel agents” on pretty much every corner, but after using one of these a few t ... 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