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Mumbai

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March 20th 2009
Mumbai is a city of contrasts - skyscrapers and shacks within spitting distance of each other. It would still be very easy to arrive, stay in the tourist areas, visit the sights and find Mumbai to be a very prosperous city. When we flew over Mumbai a few weeks early we had crossed over acres of shacks built from corrugated sheets and on our journey out to the airport enroute to Beijing we drove th ... 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