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...landmark: the synagogue, set amid the blue-shuttered pepper warehouses in the neighborhood known as Jew Town. There, on the synagogue's floor, may be another clue to Zheng He's visits: Guangzhou-made porcelain tiles, several centuries old. The synagogue is the legacy of a Jewish presence in Kerala dating back to A.D. 70. But it's not much to look at, just an ordinary house on an ordinary street. Built in 1568, it now caters to a few score local Jews and thousands of tourists. The narrow lane leading to the synagogue is full of shops selling dubious...
...gates, bored-looking policemen and Archaeological Survey of India officials occasionally rouse themselves to fling boorish accusations at anyone looking like an out-of-towner. They harass and demand identification from one Indian dressed in Western clothes. Another man, insisting he is from the southern state of Kerala, gives up and pays extra...
...Ambedkar. In one hand he holds a copy of India's constitution (the one he helped write); the forefinger of the other points toward parliament. Beyond parliament lies President House, occupied for the first time by a Dalit, K.R. Narayanan, who rose from a poor outcaste family in Kerala to hold the highest office in the land. Every Dalit who goes to see Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar will no doubt walk away with the hope that one day his life too will be transformed...
...even though incompetence is often the culprit. When the census began on February 9, President K.R. Narayanan was the first to step up. As a member of the scheduled castes, he is required to name the caste community he belongs to, which is based in the southern state of Kerala. It was not on the census list. Embarrassed officials suggested he skip that column. He refused. India's census commissioner Jayant Kumar Banthia says that separate scheduled caste lists are compiled for each state. This, however, does not take account of the movement of people from one part...
...than most of us. In these days of shortsighted one-upmanship, it is comforting to know we have such annans to care for us. May I take the liberty of calling the U.N. leader annan just once with the flavor of meaning of my mother tongue? UNNIKRISHNAN K. PANICKAR Kerala, India...