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The Gateway of India  
   

The Gateway of India

This monument was close to our hotel in Colaba and commemorates one of the British queens coming to Bombay.
Mumbai: A reflection on my first month in India

May 24th 2008
I was expecting absolute chaos coming into Mumbai. Everything I have read about the city made me think I would be getting a sneak peak of the apocalypse. By the numbers, it has a population of approximately 13.6 million people giving it a density of 29,000 people per square kilometer (the largest in the world if defined by the c ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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