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Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India: A colourfully sari-clad tribal lady cuts grass in Keoladeo Bird sanctuary.

Global Warming – Not For The Birds

A story about the effects of drought upon the world-renowned Keoladeo National Park bird sanctuar...

India Graham Simmons
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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

Being there

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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Devdaasis

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

India Nabanita Dutt
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
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
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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
Slumdog Millionaire

Film Review: Slumdog Millionaire

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

India Celeste Heiter
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
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

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
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
Cinequest 2016 - Night Song

Love is in the Air at Cinequest 2016

In its 26th year, the Cinequest Film Festival, held annually in San Jose, Calif., once again has ...

India / China / Japan Celeste Heiter
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
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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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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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

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
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India's mothers-in-law

India's mothers-in-law fight back against 'persecution'...

India AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar
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A Graphic Novel from India

NEW DELHI, May 10, 2004 - India's first graphic novel is played out in the urban jungle among the...

India AFP/Uttara Choudhury

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