Indian fruit and veg ... looking like jewels

Leaving India

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January 28th 2011
As the saliva continued to pool at the back of my throat, the gag-reflex eventually proved too strong and I gulped and felt my Adam’s apple bump up against the cut-throat razor … ouch! I looked across and saw William slump forward as someone else took a cut-throat to the back of his neck … the noise from the street just outside suddenly seemed a very long way away … What better way of cele ... 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