Victoria Memorial

Calcutta

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August 12th 2007
Arriving back in India we realised how much we were going to miss Nepal only minutes after crossing the border. At the Nepal side of the border the immigration officer simply shook his head sympathetically when we told him we were leaving his country and returning to India. Whilst on the Indian side we were met with an empty immigration office and told to wait there for 2 hours until the officer r ... 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