Meeting with ragpickers association

Pune

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January 19th 2008
After a long drive back to Chennai Airport we caught a flight to Pune. Airport security is very haphazard- I brought on all the liquids I wanted and a security guard tried to ink stamp Anne's leather purse! We arrived in an even smoggier city, Pune. Very dry and hot- it kind of reminded me of Berkeley with the weather, large student population and lots of veg restaurants. 😊 We met with so ... 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