Flower market

volunteering and Kolkata

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March 19th 2007
I arrived in Kolkata on Holi. The colour festival of India where people have massive water flights and paint each other brilliant reds, greens and yellows. Too add to the spectical of brightly coloured people I was also welcomed on trhe train by a transvestite singing and dancing. She came down the carrage clapping and singing as loud as she could and asked for a donation, I didnt have much change ... 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