buying lunch

My English friend Gilly took this picture of me buying giant tiger prawns (they were huge! definitely not shrimp!) on the beach at Fort Cochin. They take them to a nearby shack and grill them in front of you and you eat at tables set up under the trees.

back in Delhi

January 17th 2006
I am writing this from my "home" computer in Ajay's house in south Delhi, on the evening of January 18. I flew back from Kerala yesterday morning, stopping very briefly in Mumbai (Bombay) -- but we weren't allowed off the plane, so I still have only seen India's most bustling city (which features Asia's biggest slum) from the air. It was a very tiring road trip, but I really love Kerala. Lush, ... 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

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