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Visitors to London's British Museum this summer may feel they've stepped into some sort of parallel world. Mango and banyan trees are growing in front of the building's imposing gray columns, while lotus flowers bob in a pond under drizzling London rain. The foreign flora - provided by the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew - makes up the "India Landscape," part of the British Museum's "Indian Summer," a five-month celebration of Indian culture. The exhibition's centerpiece is "Garden and Cosmos," a collection of 54 bold 17th and 19th century paintings from the courts of Jodhpur...
...Planting mango trees and banyans at the British Museum is just a cultural truth made literal: the roots of India grow deep in Britain's soil. The "Garden and Cosmos" exhibition, museum director Neil MacGregor promised when he announced it last year, would shed light on an "emerging superpower." They may not have known it at the time, but the Jodhpuri painters who depicted the worldly and otherworldly powers in both classical and radically innovative ways, foreshadowed India's role as a burgeoning global cultural heavyweight. Like modern Bollywood filmmakers and Indian writers and musicians, they recognized tradition, but took...
Right now the menu is pretty in-line with the Arrow Street location, except with different flavors (Blueberry and Peanut Butter, currently) and a cool mango smoothie. Eventually, however, Matt says they will incorporate an entire new smoothie menu. The new location, when finished, will have window seats at a bar, and much more seating in the form of benches around the walls. The owner joked about how people sitting along the street at the Arrow street location was actually a fire hazard: “We want this...
Right now the menu is pretty in-line with the Arrow Street location, except with different flavors (Blueberry and Peanut Butter, currently) and a cool mango smoothie. Eventually, however, Matt says they will incorporate an entire new smoothie menu. The new location, when finished, will have window seats at a bar, and much more seating in the form of benches around the walls. The owner joked about how people sitting along the street at the Arrow street location was actually a fire hazard: “We want this...
...groups have attacked more than a dozen polling stations in five different states since voting began, killing 29 security personnel. Vinay Ikka, a 30-year-old farmer and social worker, lives in Jashpur, a village in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, in a small house surrounded by a mango and lychee orchard. He loves the forest life, but fears getting caught between the Naxals, a Maoist group that dominates the area, and the government's counterinsurgency force. He doesn't just want protection; he wants security. "I will vote for someone who has the ability to maintain a peaceful...