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Trip to Kerala-- Fort Kochi, the beginning

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October 14th 2008
Sreelatha taught me about Kerala, where the people speak Malayalam and the word for friend is suhruth. Kerala is a promise of friendship on a crowded bus. Kerala is a lake of damned echoes in the tea hills where red dirt roads wind off to nowhere. Kerala is a small girl in plaid kissing a goat on the roadside. Stella surrounded by tea says I am beautiful but on the cliffs above the ocean where ... 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