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Asian Films Play "I've Got a Secret" at San Jose'sCinequest 2009

Each year, ThingsAsian features reviews of all the Asian and Asia-related films entered for compe...

India / Indonesia / Japan Celeste Heiter

Street child in Delhi

The Street Children of Delhi

Looking for a unique eye opening tour in Delhi? A guide from the Salaam Baalak Trust will take yo...

India MaryLou Driedger

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War-weary Asian nations offer new treats for tourists

War-weary Asian countries are planning new treats for travellers in a bid to cash in on a "peace ...

India / Cambodia / Indonesia AFP/Mel Gunasekera

Some of the old carved statues in Anuradhapura.

A Glimpse Into the Ruins of Sri Lanka

According to recorded history, in the fifth century before Christ, Sri Lanka was already a land o...

India / Sri Lanka Heng Wah

We went on a tiger safari on a very cold morning.

Seeing A Tiger in India Isn't Easy

My husband had his heart set on seeing a wild tiger on our visit to India, so we carefully planne...

India MaryLou Driedger

Yeti Airlines, on the airstrip in Simikot (9,400'), Nepal.

Kailash Pilgrimage Journal - Day 4

1st pass, after Simikot We flew from sea level to Simikot at 9,500 feet, and started walking -- u...

India / Afghanistan / China Jeff Greenwald

A blind man begs for money in New Delhi

Beggars Everywhere

The faces of the beggars in India continue to haunt me.

India MaryLou Driedger

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Where to Shop in Kolkata

1) Charnock City Charnock City in Kolkata's satellite township of Salt Lake is an air-conditioned...

India Nabanita Dutt

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The Himalayan Yeti -- Believe what you will

1913: A Chinese hunting party captured an apelike creature that their Tibetan loaders identified ...

India / Afghanistan / China Nabanita Dutt

Indian Kashmiri salesmen unroll fabric adorned with traditional Kashmiri embroidery to show to a customer at a shop in Srinagar.

Kashmiri handicrafts

SRINAGAR, India, Feb 17, 2004 - Tourists hesitate to come to embattled Kashmir, but when Zafar Mi...

India AFP/Izhar Wani

Rajasthani folk dancer at the 'Jaipur Heritage International Festival 2004' on Rajpath in Jaipur, the capital of the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Rajasthan's forts and palaces battle urbanisation

JAIPUR, India, Jan 20, 2004 - The home of India's most famous maharajahs, their forts and their p...

India AFP/Biman Mukherji

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Ajanta Cave murals -- unmatched expressions of Middle Age art

The Taj Mahal has spoilt it somewhat for other heritage sites in India. The marble wonder has cre...

India Nabanita Dutt

To North India With Love

Avirook Sen Discovers His Mother's Bengali Cuisine in Delhi

Like millions of other men, born and raised in the East Indian state of Bengal, I believed that n...

India To North India With Love

Recipe: Double Ka Meetha - Bread Pudding

Serves 6 to 8 5 slices regular bread, each slice cut into 4 pieces, then fried golden brown 2 tab...

India Habeeb Salloum

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Curry without chillies and hot spices?

As lightly-spiced Western dishes gain favour in India, a newly affluent generation in India is ma...

India AFP/Jay Shankar

Film Review: The Man Who Would Be King

He wants to know if you are gods? "Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing." Free will and kis...

India Celeste Heiter

Making for the Hills

I remember exclaiming with awe when I woke up in Simla (or Shimla, as it is often spelled and pro...

India / Myanmar / Indonesia Kenneth Champeon

Recipe: Hyderabadi Bagare Baigan - Eggplant Curry

Serves about 6 1 eggplant, about 1 1/2 pounds, peeled and cut into 8 to 12 slices 1 1/2 teaspoons...

India Habeeb Salloum

An Indian Kashmiri artesan makes a basket to contain a Kanger, a small clay pot suspended in a basket for carrying burning charcoal underneath overcoats during the winter months.

Kashmir's traditional heating pot loses out to modern gadgets

SRINAGAR, India, Dec 18, 2003 - The traditional pot used for centuries by people in Kashmir to ke...

India / Pakistan AFP/Izhar Wani

Cannonball garden, at the old Portuguese Fort. Diu Island, Gujarat, India.

Diu Island: Portugal, via Mumbai

Some 5000 years ago, it was described as “Dev Bhadra”, or “fortress of the gods” in the e...

India Graham Simmons

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