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Renovation work may prove Indian emperor built Nepal monastery

KATHMANDU, Feb 10, 2003 - Ancient artefacts unearthed during renovation work on Nepal's second-ol...

Sri Lanka / Nepal / India AFP/Shusham Shrestha

Tales of A Female Nomad

Title: Tales of A Female Nomad . Living at Large in the World. Author: Rita Golden Gelman. Publis...

Indonesia / Malaysia / Brunei ThingsAsian Booklist

3 Things You Must Know Before Visiting India

In recent years India has quickly become a traveller’s paradise. It’s a huge country ...

India Rebecca Carey

Shaken... Not Stir Fried: 007 Does Asia

You Only Live Twice: Bond prevents SPECTRE from starting a war between the U.S. and Russia... Oct...

Japan / China / Korea, N Will Raus

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The Indian Iliad to the Nth Degree

A brief essay on RK Narayan's prose version of the Mahabharata.

India Kenneth Champeon

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Sometime around 250 A.D., a man called Vatsayana wrote Kamasutra , a crafty little compilation of...

India Nabanita Dutt

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Paradhis Of India - A Tribe Of Hereditary Criminals

33-year-old Mayla Kale was laying out a simple dinner of leavened bread and lentil soup for her k...

India Nabanita Dutt

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Portrait of an Anti-hero

Review of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , Broadway Books, 1999.

Vietnam / Myanmar / Laos Kenneth Champeon

'Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India' Recipes and Photos

This tempting Indian menu features a rich palette of ingredients, flavors, textures and preparati...

India Celeste Heiter

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Exiles of the World Unite: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.

Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies is a fictio...

India Kenneth Champeon

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New Delhi's New Art District

Lado Sarai, a warren of bylanes and haphazardly constructed buildings in New Delhi's hinterland, ...

India AFP/Penny MacRae

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The Enigmas of India

According to the newspapers, India is a place of bizarre religious rituals and constant communal ...

India Kenneth Champeon

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A Primer of Modern India

In the days preceding Indian Independence Day, hordes of street children sell small paper tricolo...

India Kenneth Champeon

To North India With Love

Naomi Naam Encounters Delhi's King of All Kebabs

It's difficult to explain the taste of a kakori kebab to someone who has never tried one. It is m...

India To North India With Love

A woman goes for a walk in downtown Delhi

A Sensory Assault

Delhi assaults the senses. Take an early morning stroll through down town Delhi and be prepared t...

India MaryLou Driedger

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A Graphic Novel from India

NEW DELHI, May 10, 2004 - India's first graphic novel is played out in the urban jungle among the...

India AFP/Uttara Choudhury

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Asian Libraries - India

Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad India Nirma Institute of Technology is a self-financed te...

India Christina Gosnell

Sick pigeons rest inside a cage at Delhi's Charity Birds Hospital.

Indian hospital where birds learn to fly again

New Delhi, April 15, 2003 - Birds can eat too many worms, paper kites can cripple them and even c...

India AFP/Amal Jayasinghe

Photo of a rare 7th century Buddha Sakyamuni statue which has been acquired jointly by the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Buddha Sakyamuni

London, March 26, 2004 - A rare 7th-century Buddha statue went on display in Britain on Friday, t...

India AFP

Buddha giving his first sermon. Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

The Case for Forbearance: Buddhism and Nonviolence

In the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, there have arisen fresh...

Thailand / China / India Kenneth Champeon

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