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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

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

India Nabanita Dutt

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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A Primer of Modern India

In the days preceding Indian Independence Day, hordes of street children sell small paper tricolo...

India Kenneth Champeon

Earthquake has devastated much of what we call Azad Kashmir. Relief work is everywhere. People ar...

India / China / Pakistan Ameer Hamza

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Chinese goods a rage at exotic Indian Himalayan fair

SHIMLA, India - Indian industry might be jittery about cheap Chinese-made goods flooding local ma...

India / China AFP/Baldev S Chauhan

Slumdog Millionaire

Film Review: Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a tale of religious and political conflict, of catastrophic rebellion, of ...

India Celeste Heiter

Rumtek, Sikkim, India: Workmen break rocks in the Rehpola River, near the village of Adampol.

In Awe Of The Landscape: Mountains and Machinations in Sikkim

Gangtok, the Sikkimese state capital, lies in the district of East Sikkim. Getting to Gangtok fro...

India Graham Simmons

Main gopuram, Vadaraja Temple. Kanchipuram, India.

Kanchipuram, India’s Great Reconciler

The author visits Kanchipuram, one of the seven “sacred cities” of India

India Graham Simmons

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Shopping Mumbai

Shops in Mumbai take in both ends of the market - and you can go home with luggages full of good ...

India Nabanita Dutt

Deorali, Sikkim, India: Sheri village, near Deorali, enjoys magnificent views.

Confronting Fear in Sikkim

I’ve long had a perhaps unreasonable fear of Tibetan Buddhism. Maybe it’s all those pictures ...

India Graham Simmons

Kolkata's Rickshaws

KOLKATA, India, Aug 19, 2005 - India's communist West Bengal state says its plan to ban hand-pull...

India AFP/Sailendra Sil

Film Review: Monsoon Wedding

It's monsoon season in New Delhi, but the storm that's coming couldn't possibly have been predict...

India Celeste Heiter

A gondola making its way from the Gulmarg resort to Kongdoori on the only existing cable-cars in Kashmir.

Highest cable-car to prompt winter sports boom in troubled Kashmir

KONGDOORI, India, Jan 8, 2003 - Rebellion-torn Indian Kashmir will be among the best ski destinat...

India / China AFP/Izhar Wani

We are all forced to make cuts in the text written for us by destiny. --Geoffrey Kendall as Mr. Tony Buckingham

Film Review: Shakespeare Wallah

Hard times have befallen the Buckingham family, as they travel from town to town, bringing Shakes...

India Celeste Heiter

The Taj Mahal

One Man's Love: The Taj Mahal

There are really only a few things one must do before leaving this Earth. They include falling in...

India Kenneth Champeon

India Institute

Asian Libraries - India

Nirma Institute of Technology Ahmedabad India Nirma Institute of Technology is a self-financed te...

India Christina Gosnell

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Recipe: Do Pyaxa - Hyderabadi Curry

Serves about 6 4 cups plain yogurt 4 medium onions (2 finely chopped and 2 thinly sliced 1 1/2 te...

India Habeeb Salloum

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