Cow, Palolem

Goa - A long way from India

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October 27th 2010
It's probably deeply uncool now to say that you like Goa. But I don't care. After all, where else in India can you get a Death by Bongo cocktail for about a pound? Palolem, a beach in the far south of the state, was rebuilding itself for a new season last weekend, and there were lots of tarpaulins (aka 'Mumbai Blue') draped over shacks painted in tourist-brochure colours. I don't know whether 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