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Kolkata

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January 16th 2009
Our trip to Kolkata from Varanasi was just mammoth, after the trains departure being delayed by five hours (glad we weren't in the second class waiting room, check out the photo) we spent a further 24 hrs on the train itself. So you can forgive us if we didn't think much of Kolkata when we arrived. At the train station in Kolkata we were greeted with hundreds of people sleeping on the platforms. O ... 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