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It may strike the reader as rather singular and far-fetched; but he may feel assured that it was by no means far-fetched, and that the circumstances were such that it would have been impossible to give him any other name... --Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat (1842)

Film Review: The Namesake

Mira Nair has outdone herself yet again with this gem of a film, based on the 2004 novel by Pulit...

India Celeste Heiter

Provoked

Film Review: Provoked

Based on actual events, Provoked tells the story of Kiranjit, an Indian woman whose marriage to a...

India Celeste Heiter

A Passage to India

Film Review: A Passage to India

Social, cultural, and political tensions are thecenterpiece of this epic, in which Miss Adela Que...

India Celeste Heiter

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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SHAMANIC RITUALS IN THE VALLEY OF THE GODS

The way is marked by red flags fluttering along the two kilometre walk. In the early light of eve...

India Dianne Sharma-Winter

Cachori, street food in Delhi

That Old Delhi Magic

This is the every day experience of village life that I have been missing and that I had come to ...

India Dianne Sharma-Winter

Film Review: Lagaan - Once Upon a Time in India

The year is 1893 in the fictional village of Champaner in the Central Indian province of Madhya P...

India Celeste Heiter

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Mass marriages in Indian hill state counter evils of dowry system

SHIMLA, India, Nov 7, 2002 - With winter in the air, the northern Indian hill state of Himachal P...

India AFP/Baldev S Chauhan

Guwahati, Assam, India: The wide Brahmaputra River provides a great setting for Guwahati.

In Search of the World’s Hottest Chilli: in the Land of Blood

The Naga Jolokia, grown in north-eastern India is considered by many as the hottest chilli in the...

India Graham Simmons

To North India With Love

Partha De Sarkar Treks to Roopkund's Mysterious Skeleton

I stopped for a long minute, looking across at the lake in the distance, trying to imprint this f...

India To North India With Love

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World's Largest School

The City Montessori School (CMS) in the Indian city of Lucknow holds the Guinnes title of World's...

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Kipling's Indian Stories

A boy born in Bombay is raised by two loving parents and an ayah , an Indian live-in baby-sitter....

India Kenneth Champeon

The intrepid Mr. Singh

The Intrepid Mr. Singh

We placed our lives in the hands of an expert as we traveled through northern India.

India MaryLou Driedger

Umrao Jaan

Film Review: Umrao Jaan

Based upon the 1899 Urdu novel Umrao Jan Ada by Pakistani author Mirza Hadi Ruswa, the 2006 remak...

India Celeste Heiter

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Tagore's Total Vision - II

Tagore was poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, songster, translator, musician, painte...

India Kenneth Champeon

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Jhollywood, India

Los Angeles has Hollywood, Mumbai has Bollywood -- and then there's Jhollywood, a tiny but enthus...

India AFP/Ammu Kannampilly

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Queuing for liquor in Srinagar

As calm slowly returns to Indian Kashmir, people are returning more openly to old lifestyles, suc...

India / China AFP/Izhar Wani

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Kipling's India

V.S. Naipaul has suggested that "nobody has written as accurately about Indians" as Rudyard Kipli...

India Kenneth Champeon

Where are the cows?

Where Have All The Cows Gone?

Change is good -- 25 years later, a return visit to India.

India Raheema Hemraj

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Bengalis -- the pride of Bengal. What makes them tick?

I had the misfortune once of having to visit a government office in Calcutta to get some papers s...

India Nabanita Dutt

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