Footsteps

On Religion, etc.

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September 6th 2005
Tomorrow is Ganesha's birthday. Ganesha is a very popular god here, the first one that people pray to. So if there's a big temple, there will usually be a shrine for Ganesha before the other shrines. Religion here is inseparable from everyday life and, like everything else in India, is full of colour and life. It's amazing to see how stereotypes of the old collide with ideas of the new here ... 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