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THE 63rd REPUBLIC DAY
R-DAY IN PICTURES
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:: India Features
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NRI marriages through Bollywood lens
India's latest budget has little to offer to NRI investors. If anything, the tax burden on them has only gone up. Party is over, NRIs flying back It's time to head back home for NRIs who came to India to enjoy the festive season. Now that Pongal, Uttarayan (for Gujaratis), Lohri and Makar Sankranti are all over, NRIs are reconfirming their seats to get back. With Navratri in mid-October, NRIs start planning their India trips for Diwali and the New Year and return at the latest by mid- or end-January. Smoking out rats from fields to Mizo dining tables There's smoked salmon, smoked ham, smoked bacon and other kinds of smoked meats that are an epicurean delight, but smoked rats? It's true, the rodent is much in demand in kitchens in India's northeastern Mizoram with some vendors in this capital selling as many as 200 smoked rats a day. Flying high on lavish Punjabi weddings Brides and grooms in Punjab are no longer prepared to ride in the usual flower-bedecked cars but prefer private helicopters to make their wedding a truly 'high-flying' one. Abused child fights back with books The school is over for the day but little Bharti, 12, is in no hurry to leave. She has no home to go back to - not after she left an abusive mother two years ago. Kolkata's vibrant theatre protests Singur through Orwell On the first floor of a cacophonous south Kolkata market, a spartan room is abuzz with histrionic people discussing animatedly what they can do to protest a controversial land acquisition for a Tata car project. Northeast drowned in yuletide passion ahead of Christmas India's sprawling northeast is in a celebration mode, with people preparing for Christmas and welcoming the New Year as shops bank on the Santa Claus to boost their sales amid some improvement in the security situation. From guns to business for Tripura rebels India's sprawling northeast is in a celebration mode, with people preparing for Christmas and From guns to craftsmanship. Life is looking up for scores of tribes people in Tripura who have renounced militancy to take up bamboo handicrafts in a major way. The soothsayer children of Boom Boom village Murali wears a bright yellow head dress, a red shirt over a white veshti (loin cloth) and a dozen chains of rudrakhsa beads of various sizes - as also amulets and occult aids like animal tooth and a rattle. Cobbler's son rewrites destiny Life was never easy for Kanwal Bharti, who was born dirt poor in a cobbler's home in this city of nawabs in Uttar Pradesh. But with sheer hard work he changed it all. Mobile dating grips Mizo youths After speed dating, a formalised matchmaking process, silent mobile short message service (SMS) engagement has become quite a rage now-a-days among youth in Mizoram. The story of the 'Big River' dam It is India's southernmost river, flowing through the loveliest of land where the clouds come down to kiss the violet hills. Periyar, meaning the Big River in Tamil, begins 1,800 meters up in the Sivagiri hills of Tirunelveli district, just about 200 km south of the temple town of Madurai. Taking a bath the Tibetan way A bath in divine dew, sunshine, herbal soup, joss-stick smoke or incense is a Tibetan tradition for health and longevity. Changing colours of chinar heralds winter in Kashmir In Kashmir, the changing colours of the chinar leaves announce the arrival of winter and the bitter cold just around the corner. Kaziranga's rhino fights back with villagers' support India's endangered one-horned rhinoceros is charging back from the brink of extinction with forest wardens roping in villagers to combat poachers. Unique Indian festival celebrates brother-sister bond There's Valentine's Day for the love of your life, Father's Day and Mother's Day, but it is perhaps only in India that there is a festival dedicated exclusively to sibling bonds. Raksha Bandhan, or Rakhi for short, celebrated this month is the day when sisters all over northern India tie a silken thread on their brothers' wrist as a symbol of lasting love and loyalty. India's enduring romance with the mango Here's a snap poll - what do US President George W. Bush and his counterpart in China Hu Jintao have in common, apart from the fact, of course, that they lead two of the most powerful countries in the world? The answer is the humble, magnificent, very Indian fruit - the mango. India conquers avian flu with controls and vaccine No chicken, no eggs and at least 133 people dead of avian flu that can spread from chickens to humans... the disaster scenario of disease striking the very heart of kitchens came true in 10 Asian countries, but India is finally free of it with stringent controls and a home grown vaccine that can kill the virus. |
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