'Incredible India' - and some!

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January 22nd 2014
Kolkata, India: Air Asia deposited me at Kolkata Airport just after midnight Indian time, 3am my body time! I was welcomed by Vikram and 'Uncle Kumar' and they transported me away through an eerily quiet city. We stayed the night at the Nirmala Hostel, the home of the nuns of the Mother Teresa order. Clean and simple, it was a welcome brief stop over. Vikram is the oldest son of my penf ... 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