Word: rajasthan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paid to a woman. Built 3½ centuries ago by the bereaved Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan as a tomb for his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal (Chosen of the Palace), the Taj Mahal is perhaps the most extravagant and beautiful mausoleum in the world. Made of shimmering white marble from Rajasthan, its domes and minarets glow so brightly, even in moonlight, that large sections were wrapped in burlap during the most recent India-Pakistan war out of fear that Pakistani aircraft might use it as a beacon...
Bald bearded and photogenic. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was once known as India's sex guru. At Mount Abu, the hill resort in Rajasthan where he operated from 1969 to 1974, he dispensed tantric yoga, chanting and meditation. Western pilgrims would sometimes doff all their clothes and wriggle in ecstasy, while the more inhibited Indians stripped down to their underwear. Photographers clicked merrily away without hindrance...
...only half a century, an estimated 251,000 sq. mi. (650,000 sq. km.) of farming and grazing land has been swallowed up by the Sahara along that great desert's southern fringe. In one part of India's Rajasthan region, often called the dustiest place in the world, sand cover has increased by about 8% in only 18 years. In the U.S., so much once fertile farm land has been abandoned for lack of water along Interstate 10 between Tucson and Phoenix that dust storms now often sweep the highway...
...nothing would help their enemies more "than for us to lose our sense of perspective and to undertake measures that undermine the basic progress of the country." Yet India has just exploded an atomic device-somewhat smaller than the one dropped on Hiroshima beneath the sands of the northwestern Rajasthan desert-that makes it the sixth member of the world's nuclear club...
...home state of the Congress President, Kumaraswami Kamaraj, voted to power Dravida Munnetra Khazagam (Dravidian Progress Party) popularly referred to as the D.M.K., a party whose main concern is regional and whose opposition to the imposition of Hindi as the sole official language of India, relentless. West Bengal, Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab deprived Congress of its absolute majority in their respective state legislatures but left it as the largest single party. Already at the time of this writing, a leftist ministry has been sworn in in West Bengal and another in Bihar. Congress has been asked to form...