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...although it no longer smells like a barbarian outhouse, it will take a lot more than a serious scrub to save the ancient fortress. Time has finally caught up with the jewel of Rajasthan. The great, golden sand castle shimmering across the Thar Desert is on the brink of collapse. For centuries its sandstone walls have housed what is still one of the world's few inhabited forts, and is home to some 2,000 people. But since its heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries, when it was the last filling station for colossal caravans traveling the Silk Route...
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...Modi grew up in Vadnagar, a small town of 40,000 in the semiarid scrub about 200 kilometers from the Pakistani border. In many ways Vadnagar, like much of the rest of Gujarat, encapsulates the best of India. It is prosperous and progressive, a place where parents bring up their children as vegetarians and teetotalers and dreaming of being managers in the state's western industrial belt. In its bazaar, Hindus and Muslims mix freely as neighbors and friends. There is little here to nurture hate in a young Hindu. But the people of Vadnagar remember two things about their...
...When world leaders gather, they turn bustling cities into Hollywood sets. Hosts scrub 1200 year old buildings until their facades are unnaturally bright and cordon off well-swept streets to thwart protesters and terrorists. In Prague this week, there was very little stir in famous Wenceslas Square and in restaurants rows of starchy napkins stood tented at each empty place. Diners had either been deterred by police cordons or fled the city to avoid the potential traffic nightmare...
...another in brilliant colors and design. There's not a more impressive sequence in recent movies than the arrival at the bathhouse of a huge, amorphous river-god, encased in centuries' worth of stink and sludge, whom Chihiro has the daunting task of giving a sturdy wash and scrub. It's a visual aria, whose suspense is topped only by the scene's surprise payoff...