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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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Back to basics: rural tourism in India

India's city dwellers are eager to swap their desk jobs and the stresses of metropolitan living f...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood
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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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India's Iron Lady to hit the big screen

India's most loved and despised leader, Indira Gandhi, is making her way onto the silver screen w...

India AFP/Jay Deshmukh
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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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India Hits the Gym

India's pot-bellied males hit gym for Bollywood buff look...

India AFP/Rupam Jain Nair
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New Delhi without street food?

There are 300,000 hawkers selling deep-fried samosas, kebabs, spiced vegetables and hot breads on...

India AFP/Elizabeth Roche
A rainstorm in southern Thailand seen from behind the wheel.

Monsoon

I was first introduced to the melancholy charm of the monsoons by an Indian-American friend, who ...

India / Thailand Kenneth Champeon
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Kashmir's Srinagar-Muzaffarnagar bus

ISLAMABAD, April 3, 2005 - Watertight security will surround the launch of the first buses for ne...

India AFP/Danny Kemp
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A Bible of Buddhism, Science of the Soul

A review of Paul Carus' The Teachings of Buddha, a kind of ad hoc Buddhist Bible.

India / China Kenneth Champeon
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Indian fashion

India dresses up for its first couture week

India AFP
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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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India's youth caught between tradition and temptation

How India's youth is coping in a country that still squirms at public displays of affection and w...

India AFP/Yasmeen Mohiuddin
Shrimp in a Spicy Tomato Sauce from Laura Kelley's Cookbook The Silk Road Gourmet

Recipe: Shrimp in a Spicy Tomato Sauce

This spicy dish has complex layers of flavor created by toasted whole fennel and mustard seeds, c...

India Celeste Heiter
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I Am Food!: A Preface to Hinduism

Sanskrit is the seminal language of India, and it is to Hinduism what Latin is (or was) to the Ro...

India Kenneth Champeon
New Year's feasting begins on New Year's eve. In northern China, families gather at kitchen tables to stuff and steam dumplings. Families in the south like to eat "nian gao", a sweet, sticky rice cake. Platters of delicious, steamy food blanket the table. A fish is served whole to show the family has been given more than enough. Steamed chickens, with their heads, tails and feet still attached, symbolize togetherness. And long noodles are eaten to show hope for a long, long life.

Photo of the Day Archive for February 2006

Photo of the Day Archive for February 2006

India Albert Wen
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The John Bull Brahmin

Review of Paul Theroux's Sir Vidia's Shadow, his memoir of VS Naipaul.

India Kenneth Champeon

Soul, Searching

Review of Pico Iyer's The Global Soul, describing Hong Kong and Japan among other Asian locales.

India / Japan / China Kenneth Champeon
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Indian cyclists fighting for pedal power revolution

Critical Mass comes to India...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood
Chicken Masala

Recipe: Chicken Masala

This recipe is but one of the many styles of chicken masala. This version is marinated in a yogu...

India Celeste Heiter

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