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Ten days in McLeod Ganj

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April 5th 2011
"The streets are filled with idiots: CEAT tires." As this commercial brought the 2011 World Cup Cricket final to a close, the rooftop bar was rocked by a firework that hit our building. In the square below were hundreds of men, some in turbans, some without shirts, some with epic beards, all grinding provocatively on one another. A ball of fire rocked the street as a box of firecrackers explode ... 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