Banganga

Banganga

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January 22nd 2008
According to my old friend Wikipedia, Banganga or Banganga Tank is an ancient water tank which is part of the Walkeshwar Temple Complex in the Malabar Hill area of Mumbai. We wandered around the “water” (more like cesspool) for a while last night with our friend Preeti from NYU. Legend has it that the tank sprang up when the Hindu god Ram, the exiled hero of the epic Ramayana, stopped at t ... 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