Same Chai walla - 27 years later!

I kid you not - that in the left hand corner of the shot - on the top of the steps - was the SAME guy serving tea from a mud fireplace that was there back in 1982. He now has grandkids - but still takes his afternoon nap on the ghat when it get\\\'s hot. Seems happy!

Why I love India #5 - Varanasi

May 16th 2010
I first visited Varanasi as a young backpacker in 1980. I returned in 1982 intending to live there for some months and study Indian classical music form on my guitar (cut short by a ‘crisis’ enveloping a Swiss friend who then needed to be shepherded back to Switzerland via a Delhi clinic). I did not get to revisit the city again until 2009, just for two weeks, made all the more enjoyable afte ... 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

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