Umbrellas

In which our hero hunts for Tigers and it's nothing like "Octopussy"

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March 7th 2016
The past two weekends we've had a chance to go on some excursions into the natural world in West Bengal. First we travelled to the Sundarbans. This enormous delta that crowns the Bay of Bengal lies at the terminus of two great rivers draining the mighty Himalayas: the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. We went there to see nature, yes, but mainly for a chance to spot the elusive royal Bengal tiger. Every ... 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