Hayuman's tomb

First Impressions

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May 31st 2007
India from the air is so neatly segregated into squares that it looks like a mosaic made in brown and...brown, cut into segments by ribbons of road-railway-river, stretching away as far as the eye can see. Delhi is a huge sprawling city - in some places the houses form regimented grids, in some they just spread out and round, right the way up to riverbanks and forest edges. It is a long drive fr ... 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