Puri shanty town

Indian Easter and a Motorcycle Adventure

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April 10th 2007
Marc and I left Varanasi, heading East towards Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal. I've always associated Calcutta with an overwhelming sense of poverty, an Orwellian layout of broken down buildings and ghettos filled with rubbish and wailing children begging for food. While I didn't find Calcutta overwhelmingly beautiful, I certainly didn't expect a booming Metropolis with a pretty chi-chi are ... 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