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Eunuchs -- India's Third Gender

Their face is their fortune. Caked in cheap rouge, kajal , powder and lipstick, they dress in ill...

India Nabanita Dutt

Tattoo created by tattoo artist, Ronni Froberg, at Funky Monkey Tattoo and Design Studio in Bombay, India.

Body Art, Indian Style

* * * Starlets are reviving an ancient style statement in India, as youth in the land of nose and...

India AFP/Palash Kumar

Go to the movies with Celeste...

Celeste Goes to the Movies

Film Reviews by Celeste Heiter

Vietnam / Thailand / Japan Celeste Heiter

In the late 1980s, author Pico Iyer embarked on an Asian journey with the purpose of discovering ...

Indonesia / Thailand / Japan Kenneth Champeon

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The Queen's Slip

Critics have argued that countries like Britain have solved their environmental problems in part ...

India Kenneth Champeon

View of Dongri and Downtown Bombay

Dongri, Kamatipura, and the Thieves' Bazaar

Pronounced "Doan-gree" with a flapped 'r' closer to a 'd', Dongri is a primarily Muslim sector of...

India Kenneth Champeon

Indian actresses Kareena Kapoor (L), Esha Doel (C) and Ranee Mukherjee (R) are in the Indian movie 'Line Of Control'.

Bollywood's Line of Control

The 1999 Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan which claimed 1,000 lives is being brought to...

India / Pakistan AFP/Shail Kumar Singh

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Kipling's Indian Stories

A boy born in Bombay is raised by two loving parents and an ayah , an Indian live-in baby-sitter....

India Kenneth Champeon

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Kipling's India

V.S. Naipaul has suggested that "nobody has written as accurately about Indians" as Rudyard Kipli...

India Kenneth Champeon

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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

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

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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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Medical Tourism - India

Each year, over 150,000 go to India for medical treatment at a fraction of the cost in their own ...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

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Teaching in India

About teaching, and teachers, in India.

India Kenneth Champeon

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Aamir Khan's '3 Idiots' becomes Bollywood's biggest grosser

No Bollywood film has crossed the four-million-dollar threshold before. "3 Idiots" has so far mad...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

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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

Monsoon Wedding Dinner & a Movie Recipes and Photos

Curry Infused Shrimp with Mango Chutney 24 large shrimp, peeled & deveined, tails intact 1 tsp cu...

India Celeste Heiter

One of Mumbai's many fine old sandstone buildings

Mauled by Mumbai

Mumbai (formerly Bombay) isn't so much a city as an epitaph for cities. Here is a maniapolis, a l...

India Graham Simmons

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Indian women drive equality in India

Yadav, the first female passenger train driver on Mumbai's Central Railways, has become a standar...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

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