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India Thrice: Sublime Varanasi

March 1st 2009
Benares at sunrise I just watched the sunrise over the Ganga from my room in Benares, Varanasi, Kashi, city of light, Shiva’s city - it has many names. My room in the wonderful Hotel Ganges View is on the first floor, only one floor above the street and it is a very special room. It has its own private sitting room or sun room; a circular room with wood-shutters that I can open up to let ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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