Shimla

The view from my room at the Hotel Kapil (with the Radisson Hotel in the foreground).

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Off to join the Raj in their summer capital

March 9th 2013
We'd spent yesterday amid the clamour and cacophony of Delhi's characterful monuments and charismatic markets (see A capital with a capital 'C'). At five o'clock this morning, a more different view could hardly be imagined. There was only the merest hint of daylight. There was a chill in the air. There were no buzzing tuk-tuks, no honking horns, not even a background hum of traffic. ... 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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