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The Little Engine That Could (sort of)

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April 29th 2008
I had an adventure yesterday. And it was epic. Rather like this blog post. On Sunday (27/4) I took my first train in India. It was an overnight sleeper train that took twelve hours to travel from Kolkata to New Jalpaiguri station. And it would have been and kind of was fantastic, were it not for the man in the bunk opposite me whose nasal passages clearly started in his lower intestines. Sti ... 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