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Salt and show-offs

We were standing on this mound of salt waiting to be bagged and trucked away when four boys ran up carrying slingshots and machetes. Their families were salt workers; I think they were gathering firewood.
The wild ass of Gujurat

December 9th 2010
On the way home from Udaipur I decided to take a detour and spend two nights at Camp Zainabad (aka Desert Coursers) on the edge of the Little Rann of Kutch. 'Rann' means desert, 'Kutch' is the area, and at nearly 5000sq km it is 'little' only in comparison to the 'great' rann located further towards Pakistan. The area is the last habitat of the Asiatic Wild Ass, but I was more interested in ... read more
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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
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