The Victoria Memorial

Colonial Calcutta

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November 16th 2006
Day 87 (about!) We rocked up in Kolkata from cold, colonial, wealthy and hilly Darjeeling, expecting to hit pretty hard by the heat, indianess, poverty and flat landscape but we couldn't have been more wrong! Kolkata was wealthy compared to Delhi and Varanasi (however we are now in Bangalore, which changes everything), it was a comfortable heat and it was very colonial. It was however pretty ... 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