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The Great South Indian Sojourn

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March 1st 2011
A potted history of the trip on Gladys (Royal Enfield) with Carolina (Spanish) to Tamil Nadu and Kerala - Jan and Feb 2011. January 14th: I left Bhubaneswar at 5.30am on Gladys (Enfield 350cc) and headed south for Chennai. I was hellbent on just getting there. Hm…. Maybe this was something to do with the anticipations around meeting Carolina, my new friend of three months. We had been Skyping ... 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