View from the window

Day One

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February 16th 2008
After a thankfully uneventful flight from Newark to Delhi, I have arrived at my hotel in Gurgaon, India. The first thing that hits you as you step out of the airplane onto the jetway is the prevailing smell of something burning. Though I know it's not, I choose to believe it's the smell of wood burning in the fireplace of some fabulous Indian ski lodge. (It's actually the smell of burning trash ... 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