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...efforts to please the rain gods. Even farmers in irrigated areas that are not completely dependent on the monsoon are worried. "We keep reading in the papers that the level of water in the dams is falling by a foot every day," says Balbir Singh, a farmer in the Jalandhar district of Punjab, which lies in the northern belt considered India's bread basket. (See pictures of the deadly 2007 monsoon floods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Truant Monsoon: Why India Is Worried | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...engineering student in the northern city of Agra broke his legs in October after seniors allegedly pushed him off a college building during a ragging session. In a suicide note, another student at an engineering college in the northern city of Jalandhar described the constant harassment as humiliating and blamed it for his decision to throw himself in front of a speeding train two years ago. "If education... is to serve as the lever to the great surge forward of the Indian nation, the scourge of ragging which corrodes the vitals of our campuses needs to be curbed," an Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hazing Worse in India? | 11/23/2007 | See Source »

...amount of argument can prove or disprove the existence of God. Heaven and Hell exist on earth-those who live in either of those places know it. God or divinity is in the heart of every living creature. If you can't feel it, forget it. Manohar L. Karwall Jalandhar, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

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