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Ankur with Diwali bowls  
   

Ankur with Diwali bowls

The Festival of Lights, Diwali, centers on fireworks, lights and burning candles. Ankur is placing small clay bowls full of ghee (clarified butter) around his parents home in Roorkee.
Diwali, Delhi and along the Ganges

November 1st 2006
India has made us realize that we will need a minimum of another 4 or 5 trips back here to see at least most of what we want to see in this amazing country. We arrived in Delhi from Jodhpur and explored Delhi with new found confidence from our experience in Rajasthan. Delhi was still very smoky and hazy but it helped having a little experience of bargaining with auto rickshaw drivers. Delhi allow ... read more
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Indian Flag 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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