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

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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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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...

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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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India's Children: Some Vignettes

If I had stayed in India it would have been for my students, even though in certain respects they...

India Kenneth Champeon

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Suspense, the flavour of the season in Indian film industry

BOMBAY, Feb 11, 2003 - Hit by mounting losses from popular candy floss romances and social drama ...

India AFP/Anamika Singh

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Indian director plans film on Persian poet Rumi

Bombay, Aug 14, 2003 - Veteran Indian director Muzzafar Ali is making a comeback to filmmaking af...

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India's Poor: Some Episodes

An article about the kind of poverty one should expect while travelling in India.

India Kenneth Champeon

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Fighting the noise in India's 'Maximum City'

Mumbai is one noisy city...

India AFP/Phil Hazlewood

Bombay: Turmoil and a Heart-Shaped Balloon

Far from Bombay is the hill station of Dalhousie, located in Himachal Pradesh. Dalhousie is peace...

India Kenneth Champeon

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As I prepared to leave India for the first time, one of my colleagues said, "You will miss India....

India Kenneth Champeon

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Kipling's Ode to Misanthropy

* * * * * Review of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books , Penguin Popular Classics, 1994. * * * * ...

India Kenneth Champeon

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Young Indians dance their way to fame and fortune

Dancing, which has always been a part of Bollywood, is taking on a new life of its own...

India AFP/Shail Kumar Singh

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India's Iron Lady to hit the big screen

India's most loved and despised leader, Indira Gandhi, is making her way onto the silver screen w...

India AFP/Jay Deshmukh

A rainstorm in southern Thailand seen from behind the wheel.

I was first introduced to the melancholy charm of the monsoons by an Indian-American friend, who ...

Thailand / India Kenneth Champeon

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India dresses up for its first couture week

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Indian cyclists fighting for pedal power revolution

Critical Mass comes to India...

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Vikalp, the other Indian Film Festival

Bombay, Feb 8, 2004 - Fed up with a film establishment they see as refusing to take risks, a smal...

India AFP/Shail Kumar Singh

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Working in a Bombay School

Short of dishwashing, no job of mine was as fruitless as teaching in a Bombay school. The chaos o...

India Kenneth Champeon

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Bollywood's hot pair to sizzle again ... in terrorism thriller

Bollywood's hot pair, the dusky and sensuous Bipasha Basu and the hunkish John Abraham, are set t...

India AFP/Shail Kumar Singh

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