Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
You Don’t Have to Climb Mount Everest …
… to have a Himalayan adventure. Not at all.
India’s share of the Himalayas offers a vast range of adventuring possibilities, most of which do not require the extreme stamina, endurance and death-defying commitment of a climb of the world’s highest mountain. Nevertheless, trekking in such places as Sikkim, Ladakh and Darjeeling is not for […]
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Building India’s Infrastructure
There’s no question that one of the challenges facing India is its infrastructure, which is widely acknowledged to be inadequate, crumbling or nonexistent in many places. Compared to China’s, the Indian infrastructure fares particularly badly, especially when you consider that India’s current economic growth is close to that of its giant Asian neighbor.
Infrastructure […]
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Three-Dimensional Culture
Sculpture is art in 3-D, of course. Beyond that, we might want to begin thinking of it as also being culture, history and even states of mind realized in three dimensions. This is particularly true when it comes to sculpture of India. Such sculpture embodies thousands of years […]