Basilica of San Thome

Chennai or as it used to be known Madras

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February 10th 2010
Arrived in Chennai yesterday after a 2 hour flight from Kolkata. It is certainly hotter with the temperature in the upper 20s and very little cloud in the clear blue sky. Madras was the start of it all for the Brits in India with the East India Company setting up its first trading post in 1640 in the form of a fort known as Fort St. George. The fort is now used as a government complex and it is di ... 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