The Caste System

These four men are cousins and work as marble engravers. They are direct descendants of the marble engravers who worked on the Taj Mahal!

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The People of India

March 17th 2012
Our guide keeps telling that the biggest problem in India isn’t political and it isn’t poverty: it is illiteracy.<span> 40% of their population—that’s half a billion people are illiterate.<span> It is why he tells us not to give money to street children—it only encourages them to stay out of school.<span> Government schools are free, but the goal of many is to send t ... 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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