The Communal bath underneath the Howrah bridge

A Change of plan

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March 20th 2009
So having ticked off a lifetime ambition (See Mt Everest) from the plane I landed at Siliguri at the foothills of Darjeeling with intention of travelling up the mountains on the little steam trains, 8 hrs but it does climb 8500ft! However a major problem, the politics of the region got in the way and there was a national strike, nobody was going anywhere by bus, train, taxi; the hills were closed ... 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