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The Snake and the Stick

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February 15th 2010
Walking through the lush green hills outside of Munnar I kept having distracting thoughts about snakes. I had traveled up into Indian hill country and was walking through tea plantations that dotted the rolling hillside. One time I even thought I saw something move out of the corner of my eye, but it turned out just to be a stick. A second time it wasn't a snake, but a large lizard that caught my ... 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