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India: People & Places
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The Madras seafront - the Bay of Bengal is to look at, but unsafe to swim in - is also the setting for Madras University and other educational institutions as well as the splendid icehouse built in 1840 to receive India's first shipment of ice blocks from America.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Madras also has good bookshops, the best of them a tiny but overflowing treasure house called Giggles, off the lobby of the Connemara Hotel. For listings of cultural events, read the English-language Indian Express or The Hindu.
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India: History & Culture
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The first British (Anglican) church in India was built in Fort St. George in about 1678. Still home to an active congregation, it displays many historical plaques, one commemorating Elihu Yale, the founder of Yale University, who worked in Madras as a clerk and worshiped here.
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India: History & Culture
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Madras (Chennai) may be India's most attractively situated large city, strung along a wide Bay of Bengal beach from Fort St. George at the northern end of town to the estuary of the Adyar River near the south.
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India: History & Culture
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Significantly for the South, where English is still widely spoken, the British Empire in India began here in the 17th century, with the establishment of a trading post at Madras (Chennai).
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India: History & Culture
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Centuries ago, South India was the center of old Hindu empires and a civilization that, in many pockets, never fell under the control or influence of the Islamic conquerers from the Northwest Frontier or their descendants, who conquered most of the rest of India.
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India: History & Culture
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The South was the first corner of India to welcome Muslims from the trading nations across the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. Jewish settlements sprang up too. And, according to history that slips into legend, St. Thomas the Apostle brought Christianity to India in the first century, long before most Europeans practiced the new faith.
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Foreigners make up a small fraction of the visitors to #Kerala. For example, 515,808 foreign tourists visited Kerala last year, compared with about 6.64 million domestic tourists. Yet, foreign visitors are growing fast, up 20 percent from the year before, according to Keralatourism.org, the official Web site of the Kerala Department of Tourism.
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India: History & Culture
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Roza Bal is the name of a shrine located in the Khanyar district of Srinagar, in Kashmir, India, venerated by some Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. Some people identify the sage buried there with one Yuz Asaf, that is Jesus of Nazareth, whom they allege to have arrived in Kashmir after surviving his crucifixion.
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India: History & Culture
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Together with the simultaneous Battle of Kohima on the road by which the encircled Allied forces at Imphal were relieved, the battle was the turning point of the Burma Campaign, part of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. Many historians consider it to be the biggest Japanese defeat of the war.
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The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in North-East India from March until July 1944. Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses.
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Imphal: Another place of historical interest is the Polo Ground which is the oldest existing polo ground in the world.
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India: People & Places
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Imphal - From another era, there are the famous cemeteries of the British and the Indian armies that commemorate those who died in the Second World War. Well maintained by the Commonwealth Grave Commissions, it has stone markers and stone plaques, each of which has a record of the sacrifice made by the soldiers.
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India: People & Places
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Imphal: you may take a bus from Guwahati. The road journey, though a little tiring and time consuming, brings to you unspoilt scenes, limitless greens, virgin forests and crisp air. However, if you wish to travel by road, keep a passport-size photograph handy because you will required to get an Inner Line Permit - a mere formality for traveling through Nagaland to reach Imphal.
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Imphal: You can reach either through Calcutta or Guwahati by any fast train or fly down to either of these places and then to Imphal. The airfare in the northeastern sector is highly subsidized and is just a little more than the first-class railway fare.
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Another special feature of Imphal is the Archery Stakes that are held everyday on various low-lying stretches of ground just below a stand of conifers. Evolved from an ancient tribal sport, it is still very popular in Manipur and one can see archers shooting as many as 500 arrows within a span of a few minutes.
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Eight kilometers from Imphal, at the foot of the pine-covered hillocks, you will find a wealth of rare birds, animals and reptiles at the Manipur Zoological Gardens. In the zoo's sylvan surroundings, you will even get a glimpse of one of the rarest species of deer in the world, the graceful brow-antlered thamin deer.
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India: Shopping
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One of the main features of Imphal is the Khwairamband Bazaar. It has tribal women clad in colorful, traditional attire, selling everything from hand-woven shawls, skirts, vessels, mugs and mats to fish, lotus, oranges and orange-flavored honey.
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Lying at the center of Manipur valley, Imphal is one of the most ancient towns in the Indian subcontinent and has much to offer to a discerning tourist. Khonghampat Orchidarium that has more than a hundred rare varieties of orchids.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Kebabs Bade Miya, Mumbai - An entire Mumbai street gets overrun, nightly, by pilgrims to an unassuming grilled-food vendor on a pavement behind the Taj Hotel. cheap, basic but spectacular kebabs, roti rolls and drumsticks hot from the grill. The chicken tangdi kebab is especially delicious. #DiningOutInMumbai #tandoori
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India: Food and Restaurants
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Sagar Ratna, in Delhi, serves South Indian vegetarian food – pukka food that nourishes the body and soul and is always in harmony with the seasons. My favourite dish there has always been idli sambhar: steamed rice cakes with coconut chutney and sambhar lentils.
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India: Business & Economy
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Two-thirds of the country’s G.D.P., and 90 percent of government revenues, emanate from urban India.
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The new India is an emerging economic power. The nation’s wealth — its world-class companies, its enviable growth rates, its army of enterprising and educated young technical workers — is concentrated in the cities.
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In 1901, 11 percent of Indians, just 26 million people, lived in cities and towns. Today, India has one of the fastest growing urban populations in the world. Around 30 percent of the country, more than 300 million people, now lives in the cities.
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India: Food and Restaurants
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There were once Iranian cafes at nearly every corner in south Mumbai. Originated by Iranian immigrants in the 19th century, they provided cheap food and good company in a leisurely - though often rather grimy - setting. Those that have survived have kept prices low and their ambience intact. #DiningOutInMumbai
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India: Travel & Tourism
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Bangaram Island Resort, 10.33261872.740591, Location Bangaram, Island City Lakshadweep, Phone0484/266-8221, WebSite - www.cghearth.com
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Being outdoors, in fact, is what Bangaram is all about. There are no cars, motorcycles, radios, television, air-conditioners or newspapers. The only sounds are the waves, the birds and the rustle of the breeze through palm fronds. An occasional thud denotes the fall of a coconut
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Bangaram, Lakswadeep - A vast, tropical blue sky, palms everywhere and the finest white sand bordering a turquoise sea help create a thoroughly relaxed mood. There was no noise, no pollution, no traffic, and when the plane flew off, the modern world went with it.
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It takes a bit of an effort just to get to Bangaram: the two weekly flights from Cochin, in the Indian state of Kerala, are made in a 40-seat propeller plane -- and, of course, you have to get to Cochin in the first place.
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The Lakshadweep (pronounced lahk-SHAHD-weep) territory, which includes Lacadive, Minicoy and Amandivi Islands, may not be entered without a permit -- but a reservation at the Bangaram Resort insures one. Once there, the rules are strict: no littering, no harpoon fishing, no damaging the coral reef.
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ABOUT 200 miles off the southwestern coast of India, the Lakshadweep Islands are one of the last refuges from the annoyances of modernity. Remoteness has something to do with it, but so does the government's protective policy: this is one part of India where pollution is not allowed to intrude.
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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For book parties contact - Penguin Books India (91-11-4613-1411; www.penguinbooksindia.com) and HarperCollins Publishers India (91-120-404-4819; www.harpercollins.co.in) — explaining, of course, your avid interest in Indian writing.
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