Gateway of India

Escape from Mumbai

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March 14th 2010
When I met my friend Caroline at the Mumbai airport she was bombarded with all the usual sounds, sights and smells associated with arriving in India. The cab from the airport weaved through traffic at near suicidial speeds. Fires burned on the streets where people slept. And the air was filled with the sounds of car horns, the smells of smoke, oil and incense. Everything went as was to be expected ... 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