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Westerners head to Asia to feed their souls...

India AFP/Beatrice Le Bohec

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Hesse and the Asian Dream

Lord Macaulay once famously declared that "a single shelf of a good European library was worth th...

India / China / Thailand Kenneth Champeon

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Indian director plans film on Persian poet Rumi

Bombay, Aug 14, 2003 - Veteran Indian director Muzzafar Ali is making a comeback to filmmaking af...

India AFP

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India's Children: Some Vignettes

If I had stayed in India it would have been for my students, even though in certain respects they...

India Kenneth Champeon

Just Hanging Out. Bombay, India.

A Paean to India

The saving of all people waits in thy hand. - from the Indian National Anthem The students of sch...

India Kenneth Champeon

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Tourist boom brings threat to Leh's Tibetan architecture

Leh is the capital of India's Buddhist Ladakh region. It's Old Town has just been put on the Worl...

India AFP/Tripti Lahiri

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Suspense, the flavour of the season in Indian film industry

BOMBAY, Feb 11, 2003 - Hit by mounting losses from popular candy floss romances and social drama ...

India AFP/Anamika Singh

A uniformed platform attendant speaks on his walkie-talkie as a decorated train carrying guests and VIPs prepares to leave the Seelampur station of the Delhi Metro.

Long-delayed metro all the rage in New Delhi

More than two weeks after it was launched, the New Delhi metro is by far the most popular attract...

India AFP/Aurelie Chatelard

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India's Poor: Some Episodes

An article about the kind of poverty one should expect while travelling in India.

India Kenneth Champeon

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General The Man in Seat 61 . Train travel and schedules for most countries of Asia (and the world...

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The first time I read the Bhagavad Gita was for me an experience similar, I suspect, to taking a ...

India Kenneth Champeon

Golden Temple, Patan Nepal

What to do in Kathmandu

Nepal Photo Essay

India / Nepal Dianne Sharma-Winter

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Fighting the noise in India's 'Maximum City'

Mumbai is one noisy city...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

A New History of India

India Upward and Apart

Review of Stanley Wolpert's "A New History of India", Oxford University Press, 2000.

India Kenneth Champeon

Bombay: Turmoil and a Heart-Shaped Balloon

Far from Bombay is the hill station of Dalhousie, located in Himachal Pradesh. Dalhousie is peace...

India Kenneth Champeon

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As I prepared to leave India for the first time, one of my colleagues said, "You will miss India....

India Kenneth Champeon

Chicken Masala

'A Passage to India' Bihari Menu

My 'Passage to India' menu features a rich and unusual collection of Bihari-style dishes, includi...

India Celeste Heiter

Fresh Tomato-Mint Salad

'Shakespeare Wallah' & 'The Namesake' Recipes & Photos

A collection of light, yet spicy Indian fare, featuring Spicy Chicken Tidbits, Fresh Tomato-Mint ...

India Celeste Heiter

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Rebuilding India's Nalanda University

An ancient Buddhist Indian university destroyed by foreign invaders more than 800 years ago is to...

India AFP/Rupam Jain Nair

swirling turban, Pushkar Rasjathan

Turban Swirling

Pic of the week

India Dianne Sharma-Winter

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