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This description is of Goa on May 6, 1542, the day the missionary St. Francis Xavier first set foot on the Indian subcontinent. Four hundred and sixty-two years later, you can still find some in the backpacker idyll to whom Coleridge's words apply. But the suggestion that the...
Saving the Big Cats I applaud time for its cover story [Aug. 23] on the vulnerable status of big cats (lions, tigers, snow leopards, cheetahs and others) - surely one of the saddest legacies of today's world. Human overpopulation, hunting, poverty and ignorance - along with the horrendous practice of buying...
Communal violence is not something that anyone in the region can take lightly. The modern shape of the subcontinent was formed by Muslim-Hindu hatred. Both Pakistan and Bangladesh were born amid communal slaughter. More recently, Indian Hindus have carried out two large-scale anti-Muslim rampages, and Muslim militants...
ASIA INDIA: Stricken by flood and drought, the subcontinent desperately needs better ways to manage water
Your report on the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi's victory presented one of the best analyses yet of Indian politics. But I want to make it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not a rightist Hindu party. In the past it had links to Hindu nationalist outfits, but...