0302 IST, Friday, May 24, 2013 
Panorama
Indian Caribbean Museum in Nat Geo list of 500 sacred placesBy Paras Ramoutar
The Indian Caribbean Museum, described as "a national treasure, a window to the past, and an opportunity to see history come alive", has been cited by a National Geographic publication that showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual places and guides travellers who wish to visit them. |
Unravelling the Indian curryBy Monish Gujral
Since childhood, being born in a North Indian Punjabi family, I have been fond of curries - spicy chicken curry or tangy vegetable tangy curry accompanied with rice or a crisp tandoori roti oozing with white butter. Then, there are a plethora of exotic curries such as Kerala's raw mango curry, green or red Thai curry, Indonesian curry or Burmese curry |
Hindu temples, Bollywood and a Yemeni city's India tiesBy Hamdi Al-hosami
A Hindu temple that dates back over 150 years, a market that sports an Indian name and love for Bollywood reflect the India connect of the Yemeni city of Aden. |
Chandigarh-born poised to make history as US judge
Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan has moved a step closer to making history as the first South Asian judge on the US Court of Appeals for the American capital. |
Smithsonian to showcase visual history of yogaBy Arun Kumar
Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex here, is launching a major crowdfunding campaign May 29 to support what it calls the world's first exhibition on the visual history of yoga. |
Caribbean island of St. Lucia observes Indian Arrival DayBy Shubha Singh
St. Lucia, a tiny island nation of 176,000 people in the eastern Caribbean, held its first Indian Arrival Day programme to commemorate the arrival of the first group of Indian indentured workers over a century and a half ago. |
Around the world to document the diasporaBy Azera Parveen Rahman
There are an estimated 25 million people of Indian origin settled across the globe. In perhaps the first such attempt to document the story of the non-resident Indian, two travel enthusiasts are now set to embark upon a path-breaking six-month adventure "to connect with Indians living abroad" and record their lives and experiences while staying with them. |
StagecoachBy Nanya Srivastava / The Times of India
For the students of National School of Drama, all their days are a stage. A first-year student's day starts at 8am and packs body movement training, classes on voice and speech, theatre his-tory, literature and aesthetics, makeup, besides acting and improvisation. The curtain is supposed to come down at 6pm but doesn't till 9pm or even later. |
He is fulfilling his dream of building houses for poorBy Rahul Vaishnavi
He is the brain behind several world-class and award-winning buildings that include airports and hotels in the US. Several milestones and achievements later, the dream of doing something meaningful for his home country has brought Indian American architect Harshad Patel to his roots, determined to provide low-cost houses to the country's poor.
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Hornbill conservator Aparajita Datta gets Whitley Award
Conservator Aparajita Datta has won the Whitley Award, also called "Green Oscar", for her work to save threatened hornbills in the forests of Arunachal Pradesh. |
