TRAVEL/ARTS

“Executive Travel: Guide to Doing Business in New Delhi” (pdf) | url
     Executive Travel Magazine, October 2009
     In this lively capital city both expats and Indians are looking for the next big idea.

“Surfacing: New Delhi's Book-Party Scene”
    The New York Times, May 10, 2009
    For visitors to New Delhi seeking entertainment that involves a bit more than a few glasses of watery
    Kingfisher beer against a backdrop of techno music, there's hope: look for a book party.

“Tourists Take to Village Life in India's 'Little Tibet'”
    Mail & Guardian (South Africa), August 6, 2007
    Answering nature's call over a pit of manure and learning how to churn butter may not be everyone's idea
    of a great holiday. But a pioneering scheme in the Indian Himalayas urges eco-minded travelers to try it.

“Indian Author Tackles Radical Islam in Comic Book”
    The Standard (Hong Kong), June 2, 2006
    An indie publishing house specializes in Muslim-themed graphic novels.

“Foraging: Jigsaw Puzzles in Paris”
    The New York Times, June 12, 2005
    It would be easy to mistake the framed artwork in this Montparnasse shop window for high-quality reproductions
    until the lines separating each picture into hundreds or even thousands of pieces become apparent.

“Once It Was Trash; Now It's Art”     Christian Science Monitor, May 18, 2005     In Patagonia, a creatively-inclined civil servant has spent his retirement on a     very long recycling project.

“10 O'Clock? The Night is Young.”
    The New York Times, March 6, 2005
    A round-up of bars in Buenos Aires.

ARCHITECTURE/URBAN PLANNING

“'New' India Bows to Newer Realities”
    Architectural Record, March, 2009
    India’s hunger for glass-encased IT parks appeared insatiable. Then the money disappeared.

“Delhi's Architectural Face”
    Outlook, June 18, 2008
    A site inspection of New Delhi, checking out the good, the bad, and the ugly.

“A Suburban Nightmare Grows on Ruins of India's Housing Shortage”
    The National, May 14, 2008
     Steel, marble and granite are high on the list of materials needed to build homes in well-to-do suburbs
     on the outskirts of India’s sprawling capital – but so are plastic sheets, cardboard and reeds.

“Ethnic Leh Houses Falling Apart”
    Mint, August 23, 2007
    Conservationists are fretting about the survival of medieval mud-brick houses in the Old Town.

“Slums, Shops Make Way for 'World Class' Delhi”
    Agence France-Presse, January 10, 2006
    Slum dwellers have been removed from parts of the capital ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth games.

“Solution to Delhi Traffic: 'flyover'”
    Christian Science Monitor, August 31, 2005
    Take a megalopolis bursting with people, add a boom in car ownership, and you have the sort of dilemma
    facing many city planners and engineers in the developing world. Delhi has found a quick-fix: the flyover.

NEWS FEATURES

“In Fuel-Starved Nepal, Filling Tank Costs a Day”
    China Post, August 25, 2008
     How to get hold of petrol is one of the hottest topics in Nepal ever since its sole supplier,
     India, began refusing to sell fuel on credit.

“Electricity-Starved Indians Produce Their Own Power”
    Agence France-Presse, June 3, 2007
    Everyone from stall-holders to former ambassadors is investing in private generators.

“New 'Green' Pyre to Cool Planet While Burning India's Dead”
    Taipei Times, June 16, 2006
    An engineer invents a way for deceased Indians to reduce their carbon footprints.

“Female Petrol Attendants Fuel Delhi Cars”
    iafrica.com (South Africa), September 22, 2005
    Petrol pumps around the city are increasingly staffed by women.

“Immigrants With Ink in Their Blood” (pdf) | text version
    The New York Times, October 2, 2004
    A dozen Bengali-language newspapers exist in New York City, and the competition between them
    is fierce.

“A Hometown Away From Home” (pdf) | text version
    The New York Times, June 30, 2004
    Mexican immigrants in New York City are raising large sums to improve their villages in Mexico.

“Go Ahead and Cry. It's Happy Hour.” (pdf) | text version
    The New York Times, February 20, 2004
    A New Yorker wants mothers with young babies to get out of the house.

“Under the Musical Spell of the Sonidero” (pdf) | text version     The New York Times, November 22, 2003     Deejays provide a way for young immigrants to keep in touch with friends and family     in another country.

“In Death, Homeward Bound” (pdf) | text version
    The New York Times, June 26, 2003
    For new immigrants, whose lives in the United States are still unsettled, it is common to send their dead
    back to Mexico to be buried.

HARD NEWS

“"Mass Exodus From Indian 'River of Sorrow'”
    Agence France-Presse, September 1, 2008
    Distraught and destitute, countless numbers of poor Indian villagers slowly waded out of their
    flood-hit region in a desperate search for food and drinking water.

“Security Tight in Nepal Capital as King Gyanendra Awaits Fate”
    The Sydney Morning Herald, May 27, 2008
    Security was on high alert in Nepal's capital after three explosions shook the city ahead
    of a historic meeting that is expected to abolish the country's 240-year-old monarchy.

“Screams, Silence as Families Collect Bodies in Jaipur”
    Mail & Guardian, May 14, 2008
    A shock of thick black hair was all that peeped out from under a white sheet that covered a small body
    at a morgue in Jaipur a day after serial bomb blasts killed about 80 people.

“Maoist Fighters Vote in Nepal”
    The Times (South Africa), April 10, 2008
    Maoist fighters in Nepal were voting today in an election aimed at bringing the country into a new era of
    peace - and putting them out of their jobs as hardened revolutionaries.