Pondicherry Sadhu

A holy man blesses me and my camera in exchange for some baksheesh.


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Indian  Flag 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]
Blog: Temples, Thalis, Tamils and Traffic
Date: January 8th 2010

Before I arrived back in India for the first time in eight years, I was a little apprehensive about just how much this supposedly timeless country might have changed. I mean, the place has been charging into the modern age like a sacred bull in a tiffin shop for a decade or two now, and I wasn't entirely sure if I would find India to be a transformed nation, one of glittering shopping malls ... read more







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