Madurai - street

Madurai

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January 11th 2007
After Kanyakumari, I took a bus up to Madurai, entertained by a medical student called Felice, who studies in Madurai but lives in Delhi and whose father is an advisor in the government. Rather nice getting the indian upper-middle class view on things. Anyway, Madurai is dirty dirty dirty. Really squalid in the centre of town. But for all its grime, the complex of temples is amazing with a re ... 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