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...rewards all come at this summit, where the air is crisp and the views sheer and dramatic. The craggy peaks of the western Ghats, the rolling plains and immaculately laid-out tea plantations are all around. Top Station in fact straddles southeastern Kerala and the neighboring state of Tamil Nadu. The border bisects the village. I never got a chance to find out at which point, though, because as well as being greeted by the views I was met by a horde of local men. As the only foreign tourist and woman in sight, I myself became, by neat irony...
...life. It serves as an outlet for our pent-up feelings and an escape from a world in which the promises of governments and businessmen are as reliable as those of weathermen. In Japan, where economic depression has been so sustained that people have turned to the antic Tamil films of southern India for some imported lunacy and energy, baseball has long been a secular religion, with the attendant promise of catechisms and rituals that never change. The fact that most of the local gods have migrated to America (the main one to have failed there is, of course...
...Number of women in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu that have been commissioned to be the country's first all-female police commando unit...
...wasn't long ago that most South Asia tourists gave Sri Lanka a wide berth. As recently as 2001, Tamil Tiger separatists hit the international airport, destroying three Airbuses and killing seven soldiers. But for more than a year now, the land that Marco Polo called "the finest island of its size in all the world" has been at peace, and optimism seems well placed despite the government's sinking of a rebel boat last week. Tourist arrivals at the island, where English is widely spoken, reached 393,000 last year, approaching levels not seen since the civil war broke...
...Lanka On Feb. 22, against all expectations, Sri Lanka celebrated the one-year anniversary of its cease-fire agreement with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. On Mar. 18, formal talks will resume as the two sides continue to forge a federalist government. Not all is tranquil: on Feb. 7, three Tigers suspected of arms smuggling blew themselves up when international inspectors tried to board their boat. But chief government negotiator and Minister for Constitutional Affairs G.L. Peiris says that "the greatest achievement is the cessation of violence for a continuous period of one year." Given the state of peace...