silks and light

maharajas and meanderings

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January 21st 2008
Dlehi is a much more weldcoming city than Bombay. Wide open avenues installed by the British make it much easier to get around. Old Delhi is all mosqeus and souks entwined with hanging electric cables like broken spiders webs, which make you wonder how any city birds avoid electrocution. What I did see for the first time was the overt begging. Parents refuse to have their leper childrne cured so ... read more

Asia » India » Rajasthan

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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