Quibla in my hotel room

City of Divine Nectar

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September 18th 2009
We set off for Madurai early in the morning, maybe even before ten o'clock. We drove through unremarkable country at first and I started to occasionally nod off. There was level ground on either side, largely bare with a few trees. As we drove on I started to see odd eructations of rock like giant pimples dotting the landscape. They were on our left side as we drove and formed a chain grad ... 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