India's silk sari-weavers face bleak, hungry future
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VARANASI, India  - Shiwajatan Rajbhar spends his days weaving golden and silver flowers across exquisite silk saris on a rickety handloom in his mud hut.
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Young girls and their mothers  huddle under shawls in the central reservation of one of the  city's main streets, picking through trash for grimy metal  scraps that might earn them 20 rupees (half a dollar) a day.
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Blind and elderly, Sibani Kar, who was found unconscious last month in the streets of India&#39;s Kolkata where she had been begging, is hoping for peace before she dies.
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DAUD NAGAR, India  - An hour's drive from the palatial headquarters of India's "untouchables" leader, her talk of eight-lane highways and birthday gifts for the poor had yet to filter to villagers pinning their hopes more on rain gods.
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Some say Afghani society may not be ready yet to interpret correctly what they see in movies from India and the West.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Forced to wear yellow patches in the days of the Taliban, the homesick Sikhs of Afghanistan still hide in back alleys and yearn for India.
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SILIGURI, India  - Stone chips fly as Rina, her  face frowning in concentration, expertly crushes a rock to  rubble in just a few seconds on the banks of a swift brown  river in eastern India.
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High stress and low status have soured many grads on the telephone work. Now India, the outsourcing capital, finds itself having to outsource
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CHOTI MADHAIYAN, India -- Savitri Kabirdas, a short, lower-caste woman in a torn pink sari, had just squatted on the mud floor of her kitchen to grind curry spices when a bicyclist came to the door.
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Kashmiri farmer Bansi Lal, harvesting his rice crop for the first time in five years without fear of being smacked by a Pakistani shell, is dreading the impending cutback of Indian troops in the violence-racked region.
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Once, the Thakur of Mandawa lorded it over the merchants of his parched Silk Road region. Today, the heir to that title needs a little help from those merchants-turned-moguls
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Working Western contracts in India isn't enough. Now they're outsourcing too.
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India's IT research and outsourcing  industry is facing a skills shortage, a leading industry expert has warned.
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Pakistan's vital textile industry could suffer from the imminent end of import quotas as international rivals seek to exploit the country's widespread disregard for labour and environment laws, analysts say.
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The US textile industry is deeply worried by competitors from India and China as the end of the quota system on December 30 approaches, a media report has said.
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India's brightest used to line up for U.S. jobs. No longer.
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SRINAGAR, India -- Jana Begum squatted on the floor of her small kitchen with a friend, confiding to her how her life felt like a kind of purgatory, year after year spent waiting for a husband who had vanished shortly after his arrest by Indian security agents five years ago. To this day, Begum...