Trichy, a temple masquerading as a building site, and the strange world of the Chettinad
February 20th 2015 The Sriraganatha temple at Trichy (all these Tamil towns beginning with the letter T gets a little confusing) is supposedly the largest Hindu temple in the world. It is also part town and part temple, there are seven rings of walls with of 28 gopurams. You enter the temple proper at the fourth ring – shoes off and your feet are immediately scorched on the baking hot stone flagging. People everyw
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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 
