India

From slums to hope

Last night I saw the movie Slumdog Millionaire, and enjoyed it tremendously, in spite of the hard parts. The movie opens with scenes of torture. I thought it was going to be a dark and unpleasant story — especially since the preceding trailers had been for some awful, stalker-type movie whose name I didn’t want [...]

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Those ancient civilisations still turn us around

I love it when discoveries appear to overturn ‘facts’, as with this freshly discovered underwater city, reported by BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Lost city ‘could rewrite history’: Marine scientists say archaeological remains discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India could be over 9,000 [...]

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