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December 3rd 2008
Responding to your suggestions: more photos, less words. Here's a piece of interest from The Hindu (daily national newspaper, from the local Mysore edition): A Restaurant with a Difference It is a restaurant with a difference; an effort to bring people from the mainstream face to face with sex workers and help mitigate the stigma attached to them. It also aims to provide an opport ... 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