Front Yard
This is Prasanna and Santhana's front yard, it's more like a patio area to those of us who live in the US. This shows the front entrance to their home. Often shoes are left on the steps or just inside the door, as street shoes are not worn inside. The side steps lead up to the office (for their business) which is on the second floor of their home. I found those steps a convenient place to sit and watch the world go by (largely un-noticed, which is not easy when you are a white person in India.)
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 
