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Delhi: a city of extremes

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January 29th 2007
To a great degree, I am at a loss as to how to put Delhi into words. Delhi is everything I imagined it would be, but at the same time so much more intensely real and complex than I imagined. Jeff and I stepped out of the airport at 7 in the morning the day of our arrival--having not slept at all--into a crowd of honking taxis and sputtering rickshaws, climbed into a rickety taxi van, and took of ... 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