Plastic garbage at Pathankot.

Mountain air

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April 26th 2008
Leaving Amritsar I had no difficulty for once finding my way out of the city. Perhaps a sign: no trouble leaving a place I don’t like. But I’m probably being unfair and my opinion is coloured by having been sick. Road to Pathankot quite good, then construction work turned it to shit. As soon as I left Punjab and entered Himachal Pradesh the geography changed from flat to hilly and the road ... 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