First train diversion

Addendum to last post....

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July 3rd 2008
The powers that be somehow have a way of making you eat your own words. In my last blog I asserted that I had become somewhat savvy on traveling via the Indian Railway system......uh huh. Not two hours after posting that blog, all of a sudden, my trip took a major wrong turn....literally. So it's like this: I purchase a confirmed ticket in Chennai headed for Bhubaneswar in the north (which th ... 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