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Indian's glittering weddings

The Indian wedding is all about fantasy, beauty. It is meant to define a family's social status...

India AFP/Parul Gupta

To North India With Love

Emma Louise Christie Debates the Merits of a Tibetan Ritual in Dharamshala

I watched as monks bore down aggressively on fellow monks on the ground, raising their arms behin...

India To North India With Love

Imagining India

I imagined India for so long before I finally got there, but I never quite imagined what I actual...

India Dan Brook

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Renuka lake, India

SHIMLA, India, Feb 20, 2004 - Attempts to clean up a scenic Himalayan lake in northern India that...

India AFP/Baldev Chauhan

The House That Biswas Built

Review of VS Naipaul's masterpiece, A House for Mr. Biswas.

India Kenneth Champeon

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Vasantahabba, Spring Festival

Bangalore, India, Feb 9, 2004 - From dawn to dusk, 30,000 people took in Indian classical music a...

India AFP/Jay Shankar

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A New Museum for Ladakh, India

A new museum in the Hemis monastery hopes to preserve the local culture in Ladakh, a region nestl...

India AFP/Tripti Lahiri

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India's Parsis use new technology to keep ancient Zoroastrian religion alive...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

Urulakkizangu Bondas with Thakkali Chutney (Spicy Potato Fritters with Fresh Tomato Chutney)

Recipe: Urulakkizangu Bondas with Thakkali Chutney (Spicy Potato Fritters with Fresh Tomato Chutney)

These tasty treats are made from one of the many enticing recipes in Grains, Greens, and Grated C...

India Celeste Heiter

So Long and Thanks for All the Trains

* * * * * Review of Lawrence James' Raj: The Making of British India , Abacus, 1997. * * * * * As...

India Kenneth Champeon

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The Great American Dharma Bum

Forests are delightful, where more worldly men find no joy. - from the Dhammapada * * * * * Hen...

India / China Kenneth Champeon

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Buddhist sect celebrates 800th anniversary in Ladakh

The Drukpa, or "dragon" sect of Tibetan Buddhism, marks its 800th year . . .

India AFP/Tripti Lahiri

Belonging in India

Before my six-month sojourn in India, I paid a visit to an Indian friend of mine in America, who ...

India Kenneth Champeon

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India Is Like That Only

Review of Bombay-born author Rohinton Mistry's incredible novel A Fine Balance.

India Kenneth Champeon

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'Gandhi chic' luring Indian fashionistas

India's West Bengal is a region famous for its traditional weaves, once championed by it's indepe...

India AFP/Sailendra Sil

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Bollywood bad boy turns Hindu god in new blockbuster

BOMBAY, Feb 25, 2003 - Salman Khan, Bollywood's bad boy who has been in the news for bashing up g...

India AFP/Anamika Singh

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A Passage to India(napolis)

* * * * * Review of E. M. Forster's A Passage to India , Penguin, 1998. * * * * * As you get olde...

India Kenneth Champeon

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Ardh Kumbh Mela festival

During Ardh Kumbh Mela festival, the silent new moon and the start of a new lunar month is observ...

India AFP/Tripti Lahiri

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Sex and the Shruti

The late comedian Bill Hicks once told of reading a book in some backwater greasy spoon when a wa...

India Kenneth Champeon

Dharamsala, India.

Religion: India's Comfort and Curse

In an exercise in which my Indian students were asked to finish the sentence "I believe that...",...

India Kenneth Champeon

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