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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

Ravi introduced us to the exciting city of Jaipur.

Compromise, Compromise, Compromise

I asked our tour guide in Jaipur if most arranged marriages were successful. He smiled and said, ...

India MaryLou Driedger

QiBao Old Town, Shanghai, China

Retired and on the road: older tourists embrace Asia

The typical tourist in Asia used to be a young backpacker in need of a shower, but these days the...

India / China AFP/Ben Sheppard

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A disappearing slice of England in an Indian forest

McCluskieganj or "chhotta England" (little England) in India's eastern state of Jharkhand, was es...

India AFP/Ammu Kannampilly

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

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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Portrait of an Anti-hero

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

India / Vietnam / Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

Darjeeling Town

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

India Heng Wah

'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

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Tagore's Total Vision - I

An essay on Asian Nobellian, Indian Rabindranath Tagore.

India Kenneth Champeon

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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

'Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India' Recipes and Photos

This tempting Indian menu features a rich palette of ingredients, flavors, textures and preparati...

India Celeste Heiter

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New Delhi's New Art District

Lado Sarai, a warren of bylanes and haphazardly constructed buildings in New Delhi's hinterland, ...

India AFP/Penny MacRae

Fire

Film Review: Fire

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

India Celeste Heiter

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Paradhis Of India - A Tribe Of Hereditary Criminals

33-year-old Mayla Kale was laying out a simple dinner of leavened bread and lentil soup for her k...

India Nabanita Dutt

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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

Recipe: Lamb Korma

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

India Habeeb Salloum

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Sometime around 250 A.D., a man called Vatsayana wrote Kamasutra , a crafty little compilation of...

India Nabanita Dutt

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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

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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