Entrance to the Mata Temple

Temples, Sexual Harassment, and Public Transport

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May 16th 2008
The day started well with a visit to the Golden Temple, a truly stunning temple situated in a vast man-made lake, plated in gold (a present from, or perhaps to?, the Maharja in the 1600s). It was our first Sikh temple, but we came prepared (well, Jason forgot, and had to buy a rather fetching orange headscarf with "Golden Temple Amritsar" emblazoned on it) with our headscarves and ready to leave o ... 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