Modern Love: Passage to India, by Way of an Elevator
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A moment of pure glee, which happens before everything changes.
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This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
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A puzzle is crucial to securing IndiaÂs future: how to harness and hold on to its rich but capricious rains.
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A sprawling new novel, cinematic in its scope, explores life in the underworld of India
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Reader Ektaa Minocha sends us a picture.
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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, stood on the summit of Mount Everest, it seems as if they were making the last âgiant leap for mankindâ of pre-space-age generations.
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Looking back at a 25-year old conversation with the late Padmini
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Lessons from two world-traveling retirees.
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Reader Satyendra Jha shares his memories.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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In 2001, Tom Hall, a software project manager laid off during the dot-com implosion, embarked on a round-the-world trip across three continents. He couldn't carry all the travel guidebooks he needed and ended up scouring Kathmandu for a guide to his next destination, Tanzania.
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Reader Hitesh Anand sends us a photograph.
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Description: The most wanted man in India has met his end. For decades, Koose Muniswamy Veerappan eluded capture in the forests of southern India as he smuggled ivory and sandalwood worth millions and terrorized villagers.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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By car, it's just a few hours from Bangalore, the buzzing hub of India's technology boom, to some of Asia's densest forests. They are mountainous places at the other end of Indian life: few people, fewer roads and foliage thick enough to swallow a newcomer in minutes.
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Ayurveda, an ancient Hindu healing method, has seen a resurgence as India vies for a share of the lucrative Asian medical tourism market by offering traditional massages and beauty treatments to wealthy tourists.
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Marriage in India is still, by and large, socially compulsory. But in a measure of the slow churning of Indian social mores, divorce and remarriage are slowly gaining acceptability.