Trude with the kids, while parents watch the hullabaloo

Neighborhood Children

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February 4th 2009
Trude and I went for a walk in the evening, just around sunset, when people are cooking dinner and children are hanging out in the street. On one deadend street in a part of the neighborhood that is obviously not very well-off (the walls of the houses are made of woven coconut leaves, with cooking over an open fire inside the house), a sweet girl asked us to take her picture. When we did, a swarm ... 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