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Pondicherry

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November 27th 2007
Loving it here: or I was until a buffalo peed all over me in the market this morning, I was following it too closely..... Last night, I WOULD have slept well, if the women street cleaners hadn't had cheerful conversations with each other as they worked away a street or so apart, if the stray dogs, 9 of them, hadn't had a fight to end all fights lower down the street (i.e. too far away to pour w ... 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