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It's all over bar the flights.

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July 14th 2006
"Blood Donors Galore" - That was one of the headlines in the New India Express the day after the Mumbai bombings. I was watching the news pretty much incessantly when it broke. I noticed how different the reporting of this atrocity was from the reporting of 7/7 just over a year ago. At first it was fairly similar - confused reports about blasts, uncertaintly of the timings, steadily escalating ... 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