Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Indian Festivals
One of the best ways to experience India is to arrive during a festival — if you don’t mind crowds, noise and a much-elevated level of excitement. Fortunately, there is a festival somewhere in India almost any time of the year that you go. Oftentimes, the celebrations are nationwide. But the more usual case is […]
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
After the Taj … Varanasi?
It’s the conventional thing for a first-timer in India to do: pay a visit to the Taj Mahal. It’s the number 1 stop on the Indian tourist trail, no doubt about, a true wonder of the world, renowned for its beauty and the ineffable mystery that seems to hang over it. But India is […]
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Who Will Win the 21st Century - China or India?
It seems to be a truism these days that the 21st century will “belong” to China and India, whatever this means, exactly. The people who repeat this seem to mean by it that those two countries will come to dominate the world, at least economically, by sheer force of numbers […]