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People who live inside the world's many war zones, from Afghanistan to Rwanda, may never have heard of New York or Paris, but they are likely to know of a town in northern India called Jaipur. Jaipur is famous in strife-torn areas as the birthplace of an extraordinary prosthesis, or artificial limb, known as the Jaipur foot, that has revolutionized life for millions of land-mine amputees...
Students will visit the cities of New Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur-Sikri, Jaipur and Ajmer on the two week journey. The trip is scheduled to begin after Christmas and will extend into reading period...
...power. What the B.J.P. advocates officially seems mild -- an end to Muslim personal law in civil matters and restrictions on religious schools for all minorities. But in practice, B.J.P. workers are full of hatred for Muslims and regularly provoke violent confrontations. Says Qari Moinuddin, a Muslim politician in Jaipur: "They meet you on the street and say, 'Long Live Rama!' and if you don't respond, they will kill you, or at least break your head...
...reacted in horror. Said the national daily Indian Express: "A barbarous and primitive act." Women's groups protested, and the Rajasthan high court banned further ceremonies at the site. But to some people, Kanwar had become a goddess. Pilgrims thronged to the village of Deorala, 47 miles northeast of Jaipur, to pay homage. Last week hundreds of thousands of people converged on the site for ceremonies marking the end of the 13-day mourning period. The pyre, which had been kept smoldering with ghee (clarified butter) and coconuts, was decorated with a flower-bedecked silk canopy. Kanwar's four brothers...
...Brewing Co. did some years back, that 'You only go around once, so grab all the gusto you can.' I'm not talking about grabbing gusto or swilling beer. I'm talking about living well, living a life worth living. I offer the wise words of the Maharani of Jaipur. She said once, 'Keep an open mind; an open mind is a very good thing, but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall...