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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

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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

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India on the Web

CIA World Factbook . The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at...

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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 House That Biswas Built

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

India Kenneth Champeon

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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

A New History of India

India Upward and Apart

Review of Stanley Wolpert's "A New History of India", Oxford University Press, 2000.

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

A uniformed platform attendant speaks on his walkie-talkie as a decorated train carrying guests and VIPs prepares to leave the Seelampur station of the Delhi Metro.

Long-delayed metro all the rage in New Delhi

More than two weeks after it was launched, the New Delhi metro is by far the most popular attract...

India AFP/Aurelie Chatelard

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Gandhi's Uncertain Legacy

The idea that if we were all a little more like Mahatma Gandhi the world would be much improved c...

India Kenneth Champeon

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India's youth caught between tradition and temptation

How India's youth is coping in a country that still squirms at public displays of affection and w...

India AFP/Yasmeen Mohiuddin

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Killing for honour in India

Indian newlyweds take armed protection against villagers who say their marriage has dishonoured t...

India AFP/Elizabeth Roche

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India Hits the Gym

India's pot-bellied males hit gym for Bollywood buff look...

India AFP/Rupam Jain Nair

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The first time I read the Bhagavad Gita was for me an experience similar, I suspect, to taking a ...

India Kenneth Champeon

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New Delhi without street food?

There are 300,000 hawkers selling deep-fried samosas, kebabs, spiced vegetables and hot breads on...

India AFP/Elizabeth Roche

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Kashmir's Srinagar-Muzaffarnagar bus

ISLAMABAD, April 3, 2005 - Watertight security will surround the launch of the first buses for ne...

India AFP/Danny Kemp

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Film on Indian economy shatters dreams, hopes

The underbelly of the new Indian economy "stumbles" out from the screen and stares starkly at you...

India AFP/Palash Kumar

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I Am Food!: A Preface to Hinduism

Sanskrit is the seminal language of India, and it is to Hinduism what Latin is (or was) to the Ro...

India Kenneth Champeon

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The John Bull Brahmin

Review of Paul Theroux's Sir Vidia's Shadow, his memoir of VS Naipaul.

India Kenneth Champeon

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Regarding Sir Vidia

Is V. S. Naipaul a Thing Asian? By this I mean, what, if anything, is Asia, and how does Naipaul ...

India Kenneth Champeon

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