Harriet and Sammy settle down in their bunks on the sleeper train to Delhi

One, two, three!

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April 8th 2008
At the movies! We could hardly have gone on a tour called From Buddha to Bollywood without going to see a Bollywood movie and Varansi, with its new multiplex cinema, was the place we decided to go. The cinema is in a brand new shopping mall just like the malls we have at home and seeming very out of place in Varansi. The few shops that had opened so far were highly expensive clothes ... 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