India, Darjeeling - Andrew & Peter cycling down through the Makaibari Tea Estate
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling town - A few of town from the other side of the hill
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling town - Up on top at sunset
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Niu niu in the foothills
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Going back down to the flatlands, we stopped at a tea estate which happened to be in the clouds at the time.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Makaibari Tea Estate, just above the lowlands
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Women pick tea in India's famous Darjeeling Himalayan foothills region
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Women pick tea in India's famous Darjeeling Himalayan foothills region
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Self-portrait in a pine forest up in the Himalayan foothills
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Self-portrait in a pine forest up in the Himalayan foothills
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Darjeeling town, a hill station just south of the snow-capped Himalayas and the special region, Sikkim.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling - Protesting by the Gurkha people, who are descendants of Nepali people who are continuing to demand independe
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling town - a crescent moon through Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling town - Tibetan Buddhist prayer flags
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, Darjeeling town - Indian dogs can sleep ANYWHERE!
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Kids walking along a traintrack
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Andrew addressing another Indian crowd in the countryside(always only men in India, the women are usually h
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim with another Indian crowd in the countryside(always only men in India, the women are usually hidden awa
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A small market town clogs the narrow county road
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Kids working in a rice field
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A few locals trail Drew and the Bandwagon on a beautiful back county road
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A rice field sunset
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Curious locals following and gathering around us as we stop to ask a Catholic Mission if its possible for u
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim helping farmer by "threshing" their wheat they've placed on the road for that purpose.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Kids working in the rice fields.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Kids working in the rice fields
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - On a back county road, Indian mass transit
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A flatbed tricycle built for heavy loads, common in India and China
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Father and Son plow field with cattle pairs, the typical method in West Bengal.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Bicycle in field
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim passing through a small market on an Indian county road
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim and Drew (with Bandwagon) making their way on a small back road
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim eating lunch. In India, most people eat with their hands. With rice and dal, it certainly is a bit wet
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A unique tree in lush rice fields
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A crowd (of men, always men in India) gathers around Jim and Drew while I take the photo of the unique tree
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Chanchal town - Drew walking out of our cheap guesthouse with a typical Ambassador Classic car parked in fro
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A back county road with typical rural Indian "mass-transit"
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - a tricycle flatbed, meant for hauling heavy loads. A very common vehicle in rural India.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Village houses constructed out of mud and thatched roofing with the occasional corrugated metal roof.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A common breath freshener given after meals in India, a licorice-tasting seed with big sugar crystals.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Carrying out the wheat harvest by hand
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - [Hear chaotic and deafening truck air horns that quickly change pitch back and forth] Indian Traffic! Back
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Camping without crowds of people staring IS possible in India. There are plenty of open fields. If we don't
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A typical West Bengali lunch served on environmentally-friendly leaf plates. Rice, spiced potato slices, po
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - (Drew eating lunch) A crowd gathers in the rural restaurant where we are eating, curious about us and our f
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Heading north away from Katna village on nice, smaller back county roads. Busy, but few trucks.
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - A monkey in the crowd gathered around us!
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal - Farmers laying wheat on the county road to be threshed under the wheels of passing vehicles, quite a unique
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Additions to the back of the Band Wagon
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Drew journaling in Brian Heilman's Katna village apartment
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Primary school students at Jagriti ["awakening"] Public School, with founderess, S
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village, Jagriti Primary School - Drew and Jim giving musical tutorials in one of many classes FBR vis
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village, Jagriti Primary School - Brian Heilman (SJU), our Katna host, teaching computers
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village, Jagriti Primary School - Students at the Jagriti school
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village, Jagriti Primary School - The center courtyard of the beautifully designed and built Jagriti s
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village, Jagriti Primary School - An eager student
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village, Jagriti Primary School - Maria (USA), one of Brian Heilman's co-workers with Street Survivors
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Brian plays guitar too! Jamming with Brian Heilman in his and Maria's kitchen
Date: 06/11/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Maria & Jim cooking in Brian & Maria's kitchen - such a nice change from rice and da
Date: 06/11/2008
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Our Common Ground: The Golden Rule The Ramakrishna Movement and
Date: 04/13/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - After the concert
Date: 03/30/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Our instruments on stage after the concert
Date: 03/30/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - At the concert Shabnam organized for us. Brian opened.
Date: 03/30/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Shabnam and Brian. Shabnam is the founder of Jagriti school and other projects around her h
Date: 03/30/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Brian Heilman SJU '05, who hosted us here in his accomodations with his NGO. THANKS BRIAN!
Date: 03/30/2008
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India, West Bengal, Katna village - Moti, Brian Heilman's good friend and Bengali teacher at Jagriti school. He, like many Benga
Date: 03/29/2008
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India, West Bengal - listening to Jim
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Indians listening to Jim
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal -
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - A cook making chapati (wheat tortila)
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - The kitchen of our lunch stop, in a earthen building.
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - A bus in a small intersection town
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Local TV and Newspapers have again taken interest in us in rural India, reminding us of China. SE Asia appa
Date: 03/27/2008
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India Kolcatta - Ricksaw driver
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim and Drew with another curious Indian crowd
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Market town busy and narrow street, typical of most towns we've visited in India so far.
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Typical Indian "Cycle"
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Laborers move dirt at a construction site. Like China, labor is cheaper than machinery.
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Laborers move dirt at a construction site. Like China, labor is cheaper than machinery.
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Entering a mid-sized market town by its bus station = busy traffic!
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal -
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Indians often ride on the tops of overcrowded buses
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Indians often ride on the tops of overcrowded buses as these young men are. Fresh air and space often make
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - The farmer in his field
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - A farmer's strong old-style India-Chinese bike, left while he works in his rice field.
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Mostly other bicycle and tricylce traffic on this county road - AWESOME.
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - palm trees amist the rice
Date: 03/27/2008
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India, West Bengal - Kids on the same curve
Date: 03/26/2008
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India, West Bengal - Drew and Jim take a curve on a beautiful Indian county road through rice fileds of central West Bengal.
Date: 03/26/2008
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India, West Bengal - Kids on a bike trying to keep up with us
Date: 03/26/2008
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India, West Bengal - Height difference! Yup.
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - Jim talking to one of many crowds that, like China, seem to gather around us when ever we stop. The people
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - on the county roads
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - on the county roads
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - India's mass agriculture, like China, is still largely done by hand by the majority rural poor.
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - One of 3 men along a county road who stopped me and asked me to take their photo. It seems to be custom for
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - One of 3 men along a county road who stopped me and asked me to take their photo.
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, West Bengal - One of 3 men along a county road who stopped me and asked me to take their photo.
Date: 03/25/2008
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India - On the road, and luckily, by day 2 out of Kolcatta, we found nice back county roads with little truck traffic. A very pl
Date: 03/25/2008
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India - An Indian Breakfast - Chapati, egg, and potato mix
Date: 03/25/2008
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India - Our first night out of Calcutta we were able to find a camp site - an abandoned house's yard.
Date: 03/25/2008
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India, Kolcatta - Nakia and Drew waiting for breakfast on the street
Date: 03/24/2008
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India, Kolcatta - Kolcatta and most of India has plenty of street food. Chai, or milk/sugar tea, is an extremely popular drink.
Date: 03/24/2008
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India, Kolcatta - Nakia's room at the Salvation Army Guesthouse
Date: 03/24/2008
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India, Kolcatta - Our dorm room's bathroom at Kolcatt'a Salvation Army Guest House, a long time stop for backpackers.
Date: 03/24/2008
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India, Kolcatta - In Kolcatta, its common to see groups of men using free water from spounts on the street to bathe, but never w
Date: 03/21/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/21/2008
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India, Kolcatta - Kolcatta also still has a working street car system, something I fully endorse as being far superior to buses
Date: 03/21/2008
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India, Kolcatta - India uses similar old style bikes as China, a very strong but heavy design that has proved itself under both
Date: 03/19/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/19/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/19/2008
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India, Kolcatta - India uses "Ambassador Classic" Taxis, giving a feeling of time warp.
Date: 03/19/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/19/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/19/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - Crowded, people live their lives in the street in Calcutta.
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta -
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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India, Kolcatta - The last of the world's real ricksaws
Date: 03/17/2008
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