Word: rishikesh
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...Ananda in the Himalayas Rishikesh, India...
Reverberations from the implosion of the U.S. debt bubble can be felt a long way from Wall Street. Gaurav Rege was a hotel manager near Rishikesh, an Indian hill station at the foot of the Himalayas. He and his new wife are young, educated, well-off - and worried. A member of India's growing consumer culture, Rege, 30, took out an adjustable-rate loan two years ago to buy an investment property near Bangalore, but his monthly payments have jumped because of tighter credit and rising interest rates. He has abandoned plans to get an M.B.A. because student loans...
...paint and getting high on bhang?sweet buttermilk laced with cannabis. For information on the best places to enjoy the festival, phone India's tourism office in New Delhi at (91-11) 2371 8379 International Yoga Festival [March 1-6] The event, organized by the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, India's "city of the divine," hosts yoga masters from all over the world who will demonstrate various yogic disciplines; visit parmarth.com for details. Prepare by practicing with your Gumby doll...
Phoebe M. Lithgow ’04 will serve as president, Andrew T.B. Ujifusa ’04 as editor-in-chief, Rishikesh P. Dalal ’04 as publisher and Joseph L. Bracamontes ’04 as executive editor. Matthew J. Pollock ’04 will serve as director of business affairs...
...pivotal, if oddest, events of the Flower Power '60s. Indisputably beautiful fruits of the getaway were the songs composed there. John said he wrote "hundreds"; Paul came up with at least 15; and most of the Beatles' White Album and Abbey Road were conceived in Rishikesh. George contributed four songs, including the anticarnivore screed Piggies and the gorgeous Here Comes the Sun and Something. With more than 150 versions recorded, Something is the second-most-covered Beatles song after Yesterday, but a measure of Harrison's obscurity within the band is that Frank Sinatra used to introduce Something...