Through India’s Spiritual Landscape
OCTOBER 30, 2009 Much has changed since William Dalrymple moved to India in 1989 to write “City of Djinns,” his best-selling portrait of Delhi at the dawn of India’s economic […]
Category Archives: Culture
Fifty Years of Exile
Wall Street Journal Asia March 20, 2009 Samdhong Rinpoche fled Tibet in 1959 but he still remembers his homeland vividly. “My memories of my life in Tibet are more clear […]
Tibetan Education Thrives in Exile
Christian Science Monitor: March 6, 2009 As Tibetans mark 50 years since China’s occupation of Tibet, the exile community sees a major accomplishment in creating a network of schools that […]
Tibetan Exiles: ‘We Shall Overcome’
The Nation February 25, 2009 For the pro-Tibet movement, better nonviolence training and education have been critical to stepping up the campaign in the hills of Dharamsala and far beyond. […]
Marriage at the click of a button
Financial Times March 18, 2008 The aftermath of the dotcom bubble in 2001 was a bad time to be launching an internet start-up, particularly one specialising in matrimonial listings for […]
Test ahead for India’s universities
Financial Times February 19, 2007 New government quotas designed to give the poor greater access to higher education remain contentious On a mild winter day at Jawaharlal Nehru University, students […]
Jazzmen raise the tempo for New Orleans’ revival band
Financial Times April 27, 2006 The city’s music festival drives a springtime effort to lure back the visitors Budding branches on mansion-lined Saint Charles Avenue are not the only sign […]
Get a taste of the wine business
Financial Times March 31, 2006 The fecund land of Napa Valley, northern California’s wine country, is waking to springtime with help from 400 hungry sheep. Trucked in from Colorado, the […]
Bilingual US schoolchildren spread the word
Financial Times May 18 2004 The footsoldiers of globalisation are getting younger as American children take up Chinese, reports Amy Yee. It’s a typical afternoon for thexiao pengyou – or […]
First ‘walkies!’ Now talkies
Financial Times February 28, 2004 Amy Yee tests the Japanese-made Bow-Lingual, whose makers claim to use voiceprint technology to translate dogs’ woofs into human language. Freddie may be chatty but […]
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