Indian tourism has far to fall before it rises again
While tourism is by many measures the world's largest and fastest growing industry, its health in India is deteriorating fast. This is not to suggest that India is not attractive to the prospective overseas tourist.

Anita Desai's revised sense of geography
In her new collection of short fiction, three-time Booker Prize finalist Anita Desai has finally begun to write about "countries other than India". Although born and educated in India, Desai now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mumbai mambos with Lou Bega
Lou Bega is telling all of Mumbai what he has been proclaiming on the music channels for the past several months: "There is nothing more beautiful amongst all of god's creations than women."


  A tale of two economies
  Token of tunnel visions
  UK Bhangra band comes home
  Teen idols enthrall even adults
  Audio bonanza for Indian music listeners
  The loveliest of verse
  Make health a habit
  Indo-Canadians working to get the Olympics to Toronto
  Keep fit
  Hina Jilani, a crusader for peace
  Not a difficult daughter
  Powerful experiments