Marriage Ceremony

Discovering Rishakesh

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May 17th 2011
Crossing Over After insisting the driver take me to the agreed destination and stop trying to drop me at his friends' guest houses, we arrived in Laskshman Jhula. He tried to drop me at the edge of town, I didn't know where I was but high up on a hillside I knew I wasn't at the bridge I'd asked for. I refused to leave until he dropped me where we agreed and he begrudgin ... 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