Creatures in the Rock Garden

It's India, Jase, but not as we know it...

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May 27th 2008
I've only ever been in one other purpose-built city, and I have to say, it was equally as odd. Or rather, Chandigarh seemed to me to be as equally as odd as the first purpose-built city, Canberra. Originally designed by two American architects, and finished (after one of the original architects died in a plane crash) by a Swiss architect, the city has wide open roads, lined, no less, by trees, sit ... 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