Typical India

Bringing Christmas to the slums

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January 10th 2010
How quickly the rest of the trip has passed....I come home in 1 week!! Before this blog turns into another short novel, I want to tell you about a unique experience I was fortunate enough to have in Mumbai. It started one innocent night in Nepal, having dinner with Juka, a fellow traveler. She told me she made a contact with an NGO in Mumbai, called CORP, that helps the poorest people living in ... 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