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...present, the book shows how Delhi accumulated history like geological strata. So, following Peck's road map, you can wander through the market of Chandni Chowk in old Delhi, taking note as you pass in quick succession a Jain temple where sick birds are treated, a Hindu temple, a Sikh gurdwara, a mosque and a British-era police station (a McDonald's has also opened on the road). As Peck understands, it's this juxtaposition of the present and the past, of the mundane and the macabre, that is Delhi's special delight for art and history buffs...
...what makes Muslims laugh? The Muslims on my crew told me Sikh jokes like "How many Sikhs does it take to play a game of chess?" I had a Hindu driver, and guess what he told me: Muslim jokes...
...have impact,” he explained. “People can get to know each other and socialize and get substantive background on each others’ religions. We want to make it less intimidating.” Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, who staffed the Sikh booth, said the event allowed students to ask questions they might not normally feel comfortable asking. “This is a good opportunity because most people don’t know what Sikhism is. When they see me they just think I’m Muslim. This...
...poet who published her first story collection at age 16 and went on to write more than 60 works exploring the suffering of South Asian women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New Delhi. Born to a Sikh family in what is now Pakistan, Pritam fled to India during the country's partition?a brutal period that she described in her most famous poem, Ode to Waris Shah...
...Hampi, has appeared on UNESCO's endangered list for five years over plans to build a road nearby, and the city's magnificent central concourse has been irreparably damaged by shops, restaurants and hotels that have covered historic fa?ades with plaster, paint and neon. In western India, the Sikh Golden Temple at Amritsar is not even on the list of protected monuments. Traffic swarms around its walls, staining and rotting them with acrid fumes, while a Sikh group from England has covered many of the original murals with what conservationist Gurmeet Rai, a former student of Thakur, describes as "avocado...