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Kolkata

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June 5th 2013
Kolkata was our last stop in India before we moved on to Nepal. We’d heard and read that this was going to be an intense end to our time in India. However, Kolkata is remarkably unobtrusive: I think that I was hassled by one taxi driver over our two nights there (no tuk-tuk drivers, yay!). In fact, if I had to live in India – and this is a really, really big “if”, like a million-dollar-a-y ... 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