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Mob!

This Adidas store is in Connaught Place, Delhi. On this particular day an Indian cricket player was inside for some reason, and caused the large mob to form outside. Since then we've learned that Indians have a natural curiousity about everything and form a mob over the most trivial of matters, but this was pretty exciting. Security personnel kept coming out of the store to beat back the crowds with sticks, and everyone would run and laugh and then crowd around the doors banging and screaming. Finally he emerged and the crowd cheered while he was escorted to his car and driven away.
Catching Up

March 7th 2007
It's been tough to get adequate internet access in India to post a new blog entry, and I apologize to all our readers who are eager to hear about our new adventures. This entry is old, summing up our time in our first three stops, but it's all I have for now and I've been trying to upload it onto a public terminal for over a week now. The owners of the internet cafes don't allow USB memory keys to ... read more
Asia » India » Rajasthan » Jodhpur

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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