India is a huge Asian nation and borders Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. India’s culture and heritage are a rich amalgam of past and present, religions and ethnography, more than 438 living languages, and monuments that are thousands of years old. The Kumbh Mela religious festival takes place in India every 12 years and attracts tens of millions of people – a gathering that can be seen from space. India is also the birthplace of chess.
Levi Noe I remember the day I jumped into the river, I felt like I'd never touched water before. I swam against it, pushed against the current that would...
The postmaster first took up his duties in the village of Ulapur. Though the village was a small one, there was an indigo factory near by, and the proprietor, an...
Phatik Chakravorti was ringleader among the boys of the village. A new mischief got into his head. There was a heavy log lying on the mud-flat of the river waiting...
"If I can attain Heaven for a pice, why should you be envious?"Opium Smoker's Proverb. This is no work of mine. My friend, Gabral Misquitta, the half-caste, spoke it all,...
Rabindranath Tagore Kantichandra was young; yet after his wife's death he sought no second partner, and gave his mind to the hunting of beasts and birds. His body was...
Rudyard Kipling "When halter and heel ropes are slipped, do not give chase with sticks but with gram." —Punjabi Proverb After marriage arrives a reaction, sometimes a...
Rudyard Kipling Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these You bid me please? The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To...
Rudyard Kipling When the earth was sick and the skies were gray, And the woods were rotted with rain, The Dead Man rode through the autumn day To visit his...
Rudyard Kipling A stone's throw out on either hand From that well-ordered road we tread, And all the world is wild and strange; Churel and ghoul and Djinn and sprite...
Rudyard Kipling I am dying for you, and you are dying for another. — Punjabi Proverb When the Gravesend tender left the P. & O. steamer for...