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October 10th 2008
Both Sunjay and I wanted to see the places we read about in the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. It is also Durga Puja time in Kolkota. Since Maya had a week off for Navaratri, we decided to take a trip to Kolkata, India's second largest city. We left on Saturday Oct 4th and got back on Tuesday Oct 10th. The text will be a bit long in this blog. This is mostly for me. Many of India's great heroes dur ... 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