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...existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late 19th century noble, Khuda Bakhsh. Priceless treasures include the only existing copy of a history?illustrated in gold and indigo?of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There...
...five times as dense as that over Los Angeles. It's not a place where you'll find many tourists, and certainly not somewhere you'd expect a center of scholarly excellence. So the existence of the Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library (kblibrary.nic.in), a small pink building in downtown Patna, the state capital, is a wonder in itself. Inside, you'll find 250,000 books and 21,000 manuscripts, some dating back a millennium. The number and quality of Arabic and Persian manuscripts is unsurpassed in Asia, and it is all the result of the collecting passion of a late...
...magistrate, who was named as one of Time's 20 Asia's Heroes in 2004; by officials probing alleged overcharging of $2 million, first reported by the Indian Express newspaper, for food and supplies sent to victims of last summer's floods in the eastern state of Bihar; in Patna, India. Last week, Bihar's top official, Chief Secretary K.A.H. Subramanian, announced he would be filing a First Information Report with the police based on his administration's internal inquiry into the affair, a move expected to trigger a criminal investigation of Goswami and others. The ex-magistrate, who quit...
Lifting off in his Russian MI-17 transporter helicopter from Patna in northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide...
...unemployment is chronic. Meanwhile, those Biharis who still have jobs are often paralyzed by insecurity: across the state, fear of kidnapping has emptied schools of teachers, fields of laborers and hospitals of doctors. Purnendu Ojha, a pediatric surgeon who was the first of 15 doctors from the state capital Patna to be kidnapped in the past 18 months, now works from a home he has fortified with wall-top iron spikes and metal shutters. Three armed guards frisk his patients. "I view everyone with suspicion," he says...