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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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Sex and the Shruti

The late comedian Bill Hicks once told of reading a book in some backwater greasy spoon when a wa...

India 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...

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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

Dharamsala, India.

Religion: India's Comfort and Curse

In an exercise in which my Indian students were asked to finish the sentence "I believe that...",...

India Kenneth Champeon

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India Is Like That Only

Review of Bombay-born author Rohinton Mistry's incredible novel A Fine Balance.

India Kenneth Champeon

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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

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

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

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

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Young Indians dance their way to fame and fortune

Dancing, which has always been a part of Bollywood, is taking on a new life of its own...

India AFP/Shail Kumar Singh

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Gandhi's Uncertain Legacy

The idea that if we were all a little more like Mahatma Gandhi the world would be much improved c...

India Kenneth Champeon

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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

Golden Temple, Patan Nepal

What to do in Kathmandu

Nepal Photo Essay

India / Nepal Dianne Sharma-Winter

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Kipling's Ode to Misanthropy

* * * * * Review of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books , Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. * * * * ...

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

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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

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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Ardh Kumbh Mela festival

During Ardh Kumbh Mela festival, the silent new moon and the start of a new lunar month is observ...

India AFP/Tripti Lahiri

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Killing for honour in India

Indian newlyweds take armed protection against villagers who say their marriage has dishonoured t...

India AFP/Elizabeth Roche

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