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A snake-charmer

There is a popular notion made familiar during India’s colonial period that India is a land of barely clad sadhus and snake charmers. Yes, it is still true to a great extent. But, India offers much more than many such exotic sights. On a practical plain, India has many more unknown dimensions, which a domestic or an international tourist may experience and enjoy. India is much more than merely sight seeing and capturing in digital cameras the images of historical structures and archeological remains; and watching the varied character, activities and cultural and ethnic diversities of more than a billion people spread over in a vast landmass of Asia. India is more than all these experiences. You would surely like to share the best of India as perceived and experienced by you. Some of them may include the following:

The Loo Museum[]

Ever heard of a Museum dedicated to Loos. Lo and behold! There is one Toilet Museum in Delhi. In this part of the world, the Indus Valley Civilization had thrived about 4,000 years ago. The Indus Valley Civilization is famed for a refined town planning including a developed sewage system and toilets attached to living quarters of the citizens of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. 4,000 years have passed, and in the same country a movement named Sulabh International to provide respectable toilet facilities to the masses was launched by Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak. The Sulabh International Toilet Museum [1], perhaps the second of its kind in the world, is located in the close vicinity of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi. The Museum traces the history of toilets from the time of Pharaoh’s Egypt to the modern time. It includes various models of toilets including the imperial potties similar to the one on which the French Monarch Louis XIII sat and conducted the affairs of the state to flush and burn chemical toilets used by the astronauts and the cosmonauts

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