Hanuman's Tomb, New Delhi

What Has Paris Got To Do With India?

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November 19th 2006
Within 3-days of arriving in India, I was ready to fly right back out. It was not so much a particular moment that overcame me, as it was a general uneasiness that became unbearably overwhelming. When psychologists began to regularly encounter traumatised Japanese returning from their “dream” holiday in France, their distressed condition was apparently caused by the gulf between their romantic ... 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