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The Lawspeaker
03-20-2020, 08:56 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zy1IowqaDE

The journey of Faxian is one of the most incredible in human history. By foot, he traveled from his home in central China to the far away land of India - where he encountered a surprisingly tolerant society, some truly ancient ruins and the first recorded hospital.

Kamal900
03-21-2020, 03:39 AM
Which is indeed a far cry for what the country had become after the British left in the late 1940's and so on, especially after Modi won the election twice in his career as a Hindu nationalist.

The Lawspeaker
03-21-2020, 12:23 PM
^ It was already a mess well before the British arrived. Hinduism is just plain barbarism. Buddhists may also be heathens but they far more decent.