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Kolkata/Calcutta

October 10th 2008
Oh Calcutta (Kolkata). The people here don't seem to mind what you call it so I'll stick with the old name. Calcutta has a very bad reputation. People don't seem to have a good word to say about it, without ever having actually been there. All I knew about it was the black hole and Mother Theresa so I had images of a squalid filthy place full of beggars. So when we got there we were pleasantly su ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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