Happy New Year!!

Mom, Mysore and Madikeri! Plus a train for good measure.

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January 5th 2012
Namaste! This time, from me AND my Mom! Christmas and the following few days passed with me getting some last-minute swimming and playing on the beach in, and saying goodbye to Gokarna and Kudle beach was, as always, bittersweet, because I was saying goodbye to people and a place that came to mean a lot to me – not forever of course, because I fully plan on bringing my mom there at the end ... 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