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CHECK IN, TUNE OUT Goa is a touristy destination but you don't need to be oppressed by the numbers, particularly in the south. Committed party animals who flock to North Goa have a wide choice of places to stay, starting from a few dollars a night. There are also some beautiful resort-style bungalows, such as the Taj Holiday Village, tel: (91-832) 247 9123, near the moated ruins of Fort Aguada and overlooking the mouth of the Mandovi River...
Sometimes, alas, the score--not-so-hot Euro-pop--annoys. Sometimes you even get a little bit tired of flapping wings and beauty shots. But the film always recovers from these defects, mostly because Winged Migration's imagery never ceases to amaze. Whether we're seeing a startled flock taking sudden flight or zapping into a mountain lake to catch fish, our eye is constantly bedazzled...
Welcome to Indigo, the upper-crust company that doesn't even call itself an airline. With most of the country's large carriers suffering financially and cutting back flights and amenities, a fresh flock of new and expanding niche carriers is rushing to fill the gap with wildly varying routes and styles of service. Indigo and an unprecedented transatlantic Boeing Business Jet service offered by Germany's Lufthansa Airlines are aimed at executive travelers. Others, like JetBlue Airways and AirTran Airways, are profitably targeting bargain hunters. Some are even more offbeat: Want to fly among skimpily clad hostesses from Atlanta...
...upheaval. Before partition, its inhabitants included Hindus, Parsis, Muslim traders, Goans, and Sheedis, descendants of African slaves shipped over in chains during the 18th century. An illustration of Karachi's surviving cultural diversity: at a one-room shrine that has more to do with African tribalism than Islam, women flock to see Mushkan, a male Sheedi medium in white, womanly robes. When he goes into a trance, he says he communicates with his jinni in Arabic, Urdu and Swahili. Karachi's demons, it seems, are cosmopolitan...
While thousands flock to performances inside Carnegie Hall every year, Golan handles the hall’s relationship to the community outside its doors...