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...ambassador to India and a former lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) announced Monday that he will leave his post in New Delhi this summer and return to Harvard...
During Blackwill’s two-year tenure, relations between Washington and New Delhi warmed, even as tensions between India and neighboring Pakistan heated up over nuclear proliferation and Kashmir—a region whose control has been disputed by the two nations since the end of colonial rule...
...stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." So declared Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech on the eve of his nation's independence from Britain. In New Delhi the next day, the celebrating crowd was so huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife...
...signals the end of winter and the start of spring. All over India, people celebrate by dancing, showering one another with paint and getting high on bhang?sweet buttermilk laced with cannabis. For information on the best places to enjoy the festival, phone India's tourism office in New Delhi at (91-11) 2371 8379 International Yoga Festival [March 1-6] The event, organized by the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India's "city of the divine," hosts yoga masters from all over the world who will demonstrate various yogic disciplines; visit parmarth.com for details. Prepare by practicing with your...
...India vs. Bangladesh: An argument over the citizenship of a group of snake charmers trying to cross into India inflamed debate over the number of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in India (Dhaka says none; New Delhi says 20 million...