Victoria Memorial was built in memory of Queen Victoriaof the United Kingdom who was also called the Empress of India. Hand-pulled ricksaws, numbering around 10,000, were banned in Kolkata in 2005 to improve its global image. I live in the city of Kolkata, which is at the bank of the river Ganges – 2,510km long, and currently [...]
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
The Partition of India, 1947. Life as they knew it totally changed literally overnight for the parents of Hiru as they fled to India via ship from (what is now) Pakistan, leaving everything behind. It was 1947, and 18 million people fled their respective sides of the country, the Hindus in the Pakistan side [...]
Sunday, October 5, 2008
L. Gordon Flake was appointed Executive Director in February 1999. Prior to joining the Mansfield Foundation, he was a Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution at The Atlantic Council of the United States. Before moving to The Atlantic Council, he served as Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the [...]
BABA06 Beijing2009 Video Communique Part 01 Opening
We had been told, that the Gandhi Commnunity shelters around 2000 people, including persons with active Hansen disease. Some of this patients with sequelae live with their relatives in the community.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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