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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

The Price Of Love. The Taj Mahal - The Ultimate Valentine's Present.

It gleams in the moonlight, a ghostly ice-structure mirrored in the rippling water. At dawn, it's...

India Susan Storm

Recipe: Kalmi - Moong Bean Patties

Serves 4 to 6 1 cup moong beans, soaked overnight and drained 4 tablespoons flour 1 large onion, ...

India Habeeb Salloum

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

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Kashmir in new fight to woo film makers

Srinagar, India, April 13, 2003 - India's picturesque state of Kashmir is offering cheap helicopt...

India / China / Pakistan AFP/Izhar Wani

To North India With Love

Amiya Dasgupta Is Charmed by Kasauli's Lack of Action

Perched at an altitude of about eighteen hundred meters, Kasauli offered breathtaking views of th...

India To North India With Love

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Watson's Hotel, Mumbai

Watson's Hotel in Bombay. Mark Twain once stayed there, but it's now on the local municipal autho...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

The Last Shangri-La . . .

Travelers and geographic experts have referred to it as the "desert in the sky" where greedy moun...

India Doreen Cheong

Sick pigeons rest inside a cage at Delhi's Charity Birds Hospital.

Indian hospital where birds learn to fly again

New Delhi, April 15, 2003 - Birds can eat too many worms, paper kites can cripple them and even c...

India AFP/Amal Jayasinghe

Recipe: Chicken Pakodas

Serves 6 to 8 1 pound chicken, cut into small pieces 2 eggs, beaten 1 cup flour 4 teaspoons corn ...

India Habeeb Salloum

3. Gleaming golden finials on the roof of Thiksey are visible for miles in every direction.

Ladakh - An Inward Journey

A trip to Ladakh in the Himalayas, is not just an ordinary tourist holiday. It is in fact, a very...

India Hansa Piparsania

Before the Rains

Film Review: Before the Rains

Colonial drama set in Kerala, India. An ambitious spice merchant is establishing a plantation in ...

India Celeste Heiter

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Choosing a Quality Language Program

Opportunities for overseas and exchange programs abound, but to find quality instruction, you'll ...

India / Vietnam / Myanmar Dawn Stanton

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Teaching in India

About teaching, and teachers, in India.

India Kenneth Champeon

Chilling Out On The Taj. Agra, India.

Near the 50th anniversary of India's 1947 independence appeared tricolor billboards advertising t...

India Kenneth Champeon

Recipe: Dal Dhokli - Dumplings in Lentil Curry

Serves 6 1 cup lentils 4 tablespoons raw peanuts, chopped 8 cups water 3 tablespoons butter 6 clo...

India Habeeb Salloum

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Mother Teresa order began in India's humble Creek Lane

There is little about the three-storey house in Creek Lane in the east Indian city of Calcutta to...

India AFP/Elizabeth Roche

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Vintage Indian steam train to chug again on Himalayan route

A vintage steam engine will again chug its way up a north Indian Himalayan railway track dating b...

India AFP/Baldev S. Chauhan

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India's ailing Shimla toy train hopes for boost from centennial

SHIMLA, India, Nov 21, 2002 - Faced with heavy losses, India's famous toy train in the northern H...

India AFP/Baldev S. Chauhan

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