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India by train: five magical journeys
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Meera Sodha shares her easy Indian recipes
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A photographic journey through India with National Geographic's Steve McCurry
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What really happened when Vasco Da Gama set foot in India
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India’s Literary Festivals Multiply Amid Anxiety Over Free Expression
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#BooksAboutIndia JAIPUR, India — Literary notables including Margaret Atwood, Aleksandar Hemon and Thomas Piketty came Jaipur, India end of January, an 18th-century complex temporarily filled with tents, food kiosks and bookstores. breaking the attendance record and once again making the Jaipur Literature Festival the largest event of its kind in the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/20...-over-free-expression.html
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Burnaby man was once India's biggest field hockey star
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Ancient Sanskrit to be used to teach medicine and law in India
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#BooksAboutIndia Sanskrit will be used to teach science, medicine and law at schools and universities across India under the latest bid to revive the ancient language. A new committee has been charged with promoting the use of the classical language, which was once spoken across the Indian subcontinent but today has just 14,000 native speakers. http://www.telegraph.co.u...cine-and-law-in-India.html
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How India's writers are fighting intolerance
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What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people?
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Putting Human Faces on India’s Mega Problems
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University of Tubingen in Germany will be setting up a chair dedicated to the teaching of Malayalam
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#BooksAboutIndia University of Tubingen in Germany will be setting up a chair dedicated to the teaching of and research in Malayalam. It is being named after Hermann Gundert, a missionary scholar who lived and worked in Tellichery in the 19th century and did trailblazing work in codifying Malayalam grammar and writing its first dictionary. His grandson was Nobel laureat Hermann Hesse, whose book Siddhartha, first published in the US in 1951.
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The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War review – how the conflict brought an end to British rule
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India: History & Culture
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#BooksAboutIndia The Bhagavad Gita, an important Hindu scripture, is one of the outstanding religious classics in the world, and this translation by Swami Nikhilananda has been called "the first really readable, authoritative translation".
The Gita teaches that if a man performs his duties, surrendering the fruit to God and discarding all selfish motives, he gains purity of heart and achieves ultimate liberation. http://www.amazon.com/Bha...dp/0911206094/ref=cm_lmf_t
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India: Food, Groceries & Restaurants
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#BooksAboutIndia The original edition of this cookbook was called "the definitive word" on Indian cusines by the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. With more than 130 authentic recipes, many enhanced by full-color photos, this new edition includes new dishes, such as Shahjahani lamb steeped in a spicy yogurt marinade and baked with dried figs and piquant salmon steamed with mustard seeds and tomato. http://www.amazon.com/Mad...12065484/ref=cm_lmf_tit_23
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India: History & Culture
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India: Arts & Entertainment
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#BooksAboutIndia While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was amazed to discover the women in the #tea fields singing the songs and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. This striking scene led the great Irish poet to appreciate the depth of India's far-reaching tradition of poetry.
The publication of the English edition of Gitanjali in 1911 earned Tagore the Nobel Prize. http://www.amazon.com/Git...684839342/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1
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India: Science & Technology
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#BooksAboutIndia First published in 1202, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci was the most important books on mathematics in Europe, introducing Hindu numerals and methods throughout Europe. This is the first translation into a modern European language, of interest not only to historians of science but also to all mathematicians and mathematics teachers interested in the origins of their methods. http://www.amazon.ca/Fibo...-Calculation/dp/0387407375
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India: Food, Groceries & Restaurants
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#BooksAboutIndia #IndianCuisine Indian for Everyone is the third book by Anupy Singla, by far her most stunning and comprehensive offering yet. Singla is America's favorite authority on Indian home cooking, and her expertise with delicious, healthful recipes has endeared her to fans everywhere. This new book opens up the true simplicity and flavor of Indian food for anyone, regardless of dietary restrictions or familiarity.
http://www.amazon.ca/Indi...al-Favorites/dp/1572841621
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