The Red Fort market

Delhi - day two

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April 13th 2006
I've never found a city that is quite as nonchalant about the history that surrounds it. It makes for stunning contrasts. Right next to the most hectic market - or, to be accurate, series of markets, one bleeding into the other - is a huge, six hundred year old fort that is big enough to be called a town in less laid-back countries. In fact, for a country as in-your-face as India, it has a dam ... 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