Links about India
The City of Chennai
http://india.wikia.com/wiki/ChennaiMajor Languages and Scripts of India at:
http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/scripts.htmlIndia - Street Sweepers
Several items of interest can be found on this site, but you will be bombarded with the "tourism ads." Be discerning about what is here.
From "India: Fifty Years of Independence," May 1997, National Geographic journalist, Geoffrey C. Ward, writes, "... 950 million people - one-sixth of the world's population - who live in a country one-third the size of the U.S., who speak more than a thousand languages and dialects, and who support more than 20 political parties in the world's biggest and perhaps boldest experiment in democracy. Five decades after gaining its independence from Britain, India still struggles to balance its political ideals with a populace that pulls this union in profoundly different directions."
India English-language newspapersHarappa:
The Indus Valley and the Raj in India and Pakistan Sounds, Indus Valley, Bazaar. Glimpses of South Asia before 1947.
http://www.harappa.com/Indian Recipes may be found at:
http://www.indiatastes.com/More Indian Recipes at:
http://www.indiaexpress.com/cooking/south_india_index.html
As you can see, the new middle class in India is causing a great increase in vehicle ownership. The rapid increase in numbers of cars and vans is beginning to pose a problem. Second only to the number of cars, is the number of motor bikes and mopeds. Traffic-related deaths are increasing daily.
