Word: kashmirian
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...victims, but neither country's response was adequate to the task. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf waited nearly 30 hours after the quake hit before requesting additional support from the U.S. in the form of eight military helicopters that could ferry aid to the quake region. In the Indian Kashmirian mountain village of Skee, residents received no help for five days, even though it overlooks a base for thousands of Indian troops. Army spokesman Colonel Hemant Juneja told TIME that helicopter crews were evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians alike on the basis of the severity of their injuries alone. But several...
...collection included an almost unparalleled variety of stone religious statuettes, ranging from a voluptuous pair of seminude 1st century dryads to a masterly 5th century lion's head from Mathura. There were ferocious bronze twelve-armed Kashmirian deities, smiling eastern Indian Krishnas and serene Nepalese Buddhas, to say nothing of inlaid daggers and textiles woven with iridescent beetle wings. Yet to many scholars, the most delightful items were the exquisite 16th-to-19th century manuscript paintings from the Rajput and Mogul civilizations of western and central India. These, in more than 70 sprightly miniatures, detailed stories of the gods...
...stone is huge. It is hardly diminished by the fact that Tanzanites, because they are softer and somewhat less refractive than sapphires, are also less expensive: they retail for a maximum of $400 a carat, compared with as much as $2,500 a carat for top-quality Burmese or Kashmirian sapphires. Tiffany's, which now has some 60 Tanzanites in its vault, currently is the only U.S. jeweler with any substantial supply. Most of the gems are still unmounted, and Tiffany's is not selling the loose stones. The biggest sale so far: a brooch containing...
...hopes of easing the religious tensions, Nehru early this month released Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the Lion of Kashmir, who was jailed nearly eleven years ago for "conspiracy" to bring about Kashmirian independence. Nehru had hoped that Sheik Abdullah, a Moslem who believes in Hindu-Moslem cooperation, might find a solution to the Kashmir problem. Since his release, the former Kashmirian Prime Minister has been campaigning by Jeep through the towns and villages of Kashmir's Himalayan foothills, talking with old friends and supporters. His plan for settling Kashmir's future remains the same as always. Failing a plebiscite...
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