Dawn over the Ganges

Joe Blogs - Dawn on the Ganges

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January 22nd 2012
Well, considering that Varanasi is India's holiest city, there's an awful lot of guns here. A bit disconcerting last night with a couple of people wandering around the hotel lobby carrying machine guns. I dunno, perhaps they're holy machine guns ?! They are police (or army, or both), but sometimes they're dressed so casually it's hard to tell. Also a bit wierd that to get in ... 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