Word: thakur
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...Nalini Thakur marches through the front door of a town house in New Delhi, crosses a courtyard where a woman is snoring on a rope bed, and arrives at a brick tomb that has survived for 450 years. Hidden away in this unlikely domestic setting, it's a splendid archeological curiosity?one of the first tombs to fuse Persian and Mughal styles in a way that prefigured the design of the Taj Mahal a century later. But as Thakur steps inside, she is assaulted by a stench that reveals the mausoleum's current function: it has become a toilet. "Heritage...
...Delhi, counts 70,000 historic monuments across the country, and R.P. Pereira in the New Delhi office of UNESCO?whose World Heritage Committee meets this week in Durban, South Africa, to review global conservation efforts?calls India "the world's biggest heritage site." But even conservationists like Thakur admit that it's impossible, even immoral, for a developing nation with a quarter of the world's poorest inhabitants to spend the fortune needed to preserve that history. The country's main heritage body, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), is so constrained financially that it limits its care to just...
...elders, and spent her early teenage years in the violent world of the Dacoits - the storied bandits who roam the desolate plains of northern India. Devi exploded into the national consciousness in 1981, as the 21-year-old leader of a Dacoit gang that massacred 21 men of the Thakur landowning caste in the village of Bhemai. The massacre was a brutal revenge attack - Devi had been held prisoner and repeatedly gang-raped by upper-caste men of the village earlier the same year. And while it established her notoriety as one of India?s most-wanted bandits...
...Bharat Thakur, a living Himalayan master, teaches the ancient art of yoga and meditation and has a wide following in India. He can be contacted at bharatyogi@hotmail.com
...Though all of the House committee chairs were invited to attend, only Katherine A. Murphy '01 and Michael S. Weidman '01 of Adams, Nancy M. Poon '01 of Dunster and Michael E. Thakur '01 of Quincy were able to attend...