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Oh, Calcutta!

April 1st 2010
Happy April Fools Day! Maybe the joke’s on us, or just maybe WE are the joke. Calcutta is all it is reputed to be. It’s a city of 13 million people, nearly all of whom seem to live in hopeless squalor. It’s hot, it’s muggy, and it’s loud. We thought that Saigon had lots of horn honking going on. There, it is a peaceful afternoon compared with Calcutta. In Saigon, we said the motto seem ... read more
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Indian Flag 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
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