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...former champions Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, recently farewelled with much fanfare from Test cricket, creaking about in the IPL. Apart from a hefty pay cheque, what could these matches mean to the non-Indian players? What Australian, South African or New Zealander grows up dreaming of representing Jaipur, Mohali or Kolkata? The franchises comprise a hotchpotch of current and retired players from various countries. On what will the players draw to find the will to try their hardest? Gratitude, perhaps, for being paid so well? It was only a few years ago that cricket learnt a hard lesson - players...
...WHILE TREATING impoverished rural amputees in Jaipur, India, orthopedic surgeon P.K. Sethi and local craftsman Ram Chandra devised something revolutionary: an affordable prosthetic foot made of flexible materials that offered mobility for villagers accustomed to walking barefoot and sitting on the floor. First used broadly for land-mine victims in Afghanistan after the 1979 Soviet invasion, the $30 Jaipur foot has aided millions of patients in more than 25 developing or war-torn countries. Sethi...
...Japan with her husband and two young children. We felt "like guests in a friend's house. More guests arrived, and it was like one big house party." They were booked into Vivenda, in Goa, by Victoria Mills and Bertie Dyer, founders of the India Beat travel company in Jaipur, who pride themselves on uncovering new addresses. The Hochman family also liked other small hotels, including Samode Haveli in Jaipur ("like a pensione--the way they used to be") and Deodars, a manor house in Almora, in the Himalayas...
Even travelers who ordinarily make their own arrangements may welcome help in India. Keeping tabs on the new small hotels and knowing which ones have experienced declines in service require frequent visits. We loved one of the chic co-owners of Barwara Kothi, a new guesthouse in Jaipur. The food was delicious, and the Art Deco home where her in-laws' family entertained a maharajah has a good ambiance. However, it was noisy, though the owners have since planted barriers and reinforced windows. Also, be warned that some large travel operators snub the small hotels because the commissions paid...
...like Bangalore, as well as leased residence hotels. The Indian government, concerned about the shortage driving up prices and eager to create more options by 2010, when India will host the Commonwealth Games, is pushing for families to turn their homes into bed-and-breakfast operations. Faiz Dadarkar, a Jaipur entrepreneur who set up the Jaipur Pride network to match travelers with homestays, was astounded when 4,500 people responded to his billboards in 2005. He organized five training seminars. "We covered all the basics: how to clean a toilet and how not to hover," he says, laughing...