Word: yadav
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...them was Gaurav “Libby” Yadav ’06, who took time off volunteering at a South Indian NGO to represent India last summer. Yadav ’06 was traveling around Bangalore with roommate Peter J. Doyle ’06 when he heard about the competition—“AXN Xtreme: India v. Pakistan”—sponsored by and then aired on the AXN extreme sports network...
Experienced at rigorous hiking and competitive squash, Yadav easily accelerated from auditions to the finals. Then it was off to Taipei, Taiwan, the city selected for the competition’s final stage because of its relative neutrality...
...died, and pilgrims come to see the gilded statue that commemorates the spot where the Buddha attained nirvana as well as a brick monument built in the field where he was cremated. "The only improvement we have seen here is because of the monasteries and the Buddhists," says Laldhar Yadav, who owns a cloth shop...
Like every shopkeeper and hotel manager on the Buddhist trail, Yadav complains that the government could be doing more: although India's central and state governments insist that promoting the Buddhist trail is a priority, most of the connecting roads are poor, trains don't run on time, tourists who face problems won't get any help from the police and finding foreign exchange is often impossible...
...under which Prince Siddhartha became the enlightened Buddha?burned down centuries ago. Today, hawkers sell leaves from a replacement tree for $1 apiece. A swath of hotels and shops encroach on the temple complex, and police say looters have stolen hundreds of artifacts, an allegation that temple manager Kallicharan Yadav dismisses as "baseless." What is undeniable is that Hindu priests have turned parts of the Buddhist holy site into shrines to their own gods. A day's drive away, Nalanda University, the wellspring from which ideas of Nirvana and reincarnation washed across the world from the 5th to 12th centuries...