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Musical stone pillars.  
   

Musical stone pillars.

These are musical stone pillars. Crafted to perfection the musician would bang each with a wood stick and each makes a perfect note that resonates throughout the temple. Clever cookies.
Chugging through Karnataka to Delhi

May 14th 2007
With a train late evening, and needing to make our way across the channel to the station, we left Fort Cochin mid afternoon. An ordinarily straight forward route was transformed into a rather ardous one with the house on our back, the short walk - ferry - long hot sweaty walk to the station pulled the corners of San's mouth down further down south, further than any part of her body would every tra ... read more
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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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