Hippo in the Murky Water

Nehru Zoological Park

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March 23rd 2006
Recently I went with some friends to Hyderabad’s Zoo, called ‘Nehru Zoo Park”. The Zoo is the closest well-known landmark to where I stay in Hyderabad—often we just tell the auto rickshaw driver to take us to ‘Zoo Park’ when they haven’t heard of our far-away part of town. My trip to the Zoo was another exercise in comparing India to home, because going to the Zoo was such a not ... 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