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Two Kashmiri brothers and their twin sisters sit on a rock looking at rides inside Kashmir's first amusement park in Pahalgam.

First Kashmir amusement park

Kashmiris looking for respite from war can now enjoy the province's first amusement park, but the...

India / China AFP/Izhar Wani

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...

India / Japan / China Will Raus
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Portrait of an Anti-hero

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

India / Vietnam / Myanmar Kenneth Champeon
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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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The Enigmas of India

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

India Kenneth Champeon

'Ajanta: Regional Feasts of India' Recipes and Photos

This collection of recipes is a six-course feast from the Indian province of Bengal. Recipes incl...

India Celeste Heiter
Darjeeling Town

Darjeeling Tea

An elderly Indian lady, who introduced herself as Kessum, took a fistful of tea leaves and put he...

India Heng Wah

Recipe: Hyderabadi Mirch Ka Salan - Fried Peppers

Serves about 6 6 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 medium onions, finely chopped 6 large sweet green pe...

India Habeeb Salloum
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Tagore's Total Vision - I

An essay on Asian Nobellian, Indian Rabindranath Tagore.

India Kenneth Champeon
Fire

Film Review: Fire

Dysfunctional doesn't begin to describe the family dynamics in this sexually charged drama writte...

India Celeste Heiter
Near Mysore, the inner sanctum of the Somnathapura Temple, India.

Of Mysore, Maharajas And Magnificence

The author visits Mysore, city of sandalwood and ancient palaces, and ex-capital of a kingdom tha...

India Graham Simmons
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India's Andaman Islands

Port Blair, India, March 28, 2004 - India's remote and spectacular Andaman islands, unexploited j...

India / Thailand AFP/Michael Mathes
Lining the holy river are buildings like these, the bottoms of their long stairs reaching well below the surface. People come here to wash, frolic, or sit in quiet contemplation.

Varanasi: "God Is Here"

Travelling in India cannot be called a vacation. It is closer to a species of trauma, or a potent...

India Kenneth A. Champeon
Mee Goreng

Recipe: Mee Goreng

Mee Goreng is not a typically Indian dish, but rather a cross-over dish that evolved in Malaysia ...

India / Malaysia / Singapore Celeste Heiter
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
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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
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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India's night schools

The schools, mainly owned and operated by religious organisations or community groups, operate si...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

Recipe: Lamb Korma

Serves 6 4 garlic cloves, crushed 1 tablespoon grated ginger 2 cups water 4 tablespoons butter 2 ...

India Habeeb Salloum
To North India With Love

Nabanita Dutt's Introduction to To North India With Love

To North India With Love introduces you to a group of writers who have spent a significant amount...

India To North India With Love

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