lovely colonial style bookshop at the train station in Ooty

they had some pretty amazing english speaking books which we bought

Surrealistic Ooty, a toy train ride and a sleeper train: from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu and back to Kerala

January 29th 2014
It is a long time ago I (Nina) was reading a book about an english lady who lived in the Nilgiris when the english settled into India. I do not remember the title of the book (it was actually not the best book I have ever read), but what I do remember is the beauty of the landscape that was described. Somehow I had the idea of going to Ooty despite a lot of people telling us, that it is a really d ... 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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