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...across this 36-mile-long island, a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Houston. But what many of the developers and buyers don't know or refuse to acknowledge is that Roatan has the second highest incidence of AIDS in Honduras, after the port city of San Pedro Sula. Health care workers on the island say that one in seven people is infected with HIV on Roatan (the figure for the United States is one in 250). But this is a conservative estimate, they stress, because local superstitions and shame still prevent many who may be infected from seeking...
...India, dismantling a creaking socialist command economy that had chained India to poverty and stagnation since independence. Samant returned home with a mad new plan: to make wine in a country where alcohol was taboo and the closest thing to sophisticated intoxication was hooch. Thirteen years later, Samant runs Sula, one of India's largest vintners, producing more than a million bottles a year. And he lives large, employing a chauffeur and a butler, vacationing in Europe and California, and partying every night in Bombay...
...dine frequently at Chinese restaurants may be familiar with brands like Great Wall or Dynasty. And the steady progress of Indian cuisine from takeaway fodder to the dainty, ghee-free offerings of designer restaurants has also brought the name of Dindori Reserve-a decent Shiraz from India's Sula vineyards-to greater notice. But what about other Eastern bottlings...
...dine frequently at Chinese restaurants may be familiar with brands like Great Wall or Dynasty. And the steady progress of Indian cuisine from takeaway fodder to the dainty, ghee-free offerings of designer restaurants has also brought the name of Dindori Reserve - a decent Shiraz from India's Sula vineyards - to greater notice. But what about other Eastern bottlings? In tandem with Asia's ever-rising levels of wine consumption, the last two decades have seen a surge of interest in wine production, with entrepreneurs and hobbyists staking out their choices of terroir in the unlikeliest of locations, from sweltering...
...INDIGO The first classy independent restaurant in India when it opened in Colaba in 1999, Indigo, tel: (91-22) 2285 6316, boasts two levels. The busy downstairs bar serves the excellent but hard-to-find Dindori red from the Sula vineyards outside Bombay. The menu at the restaurant upstairs features grilled cinnamon quail and refreshingly rare peppered tuna...