Lydia Polgreen Nyt News Service

The groaning, clattering machines never stop, transforming 12 tonnes of whole wheat flour every day into nearly a quarter-million discs of flatbread called roti. These purpose-built contraptions, each 20 feet long, extrude the dough, roll it flat, then send it down a gas-fired conveyor belt, spitting out a never-ending stream of hot, floppy,...

In the high Himalayan Kashmir valley, the latest battle line between India and Pakistan  has been drawn. This time it is not the ground underfoot, which has been disputed since the bloody partition of British India in 1947, but the water hurtling from mountain glaciers to parched farmers' fields in Pakistan's agricultural heartland.Indian work...

The ceremony is simple and common. A Kashmiri Pandit lights a fire, places some herbs, clarified butter and other offerings atop it and through its peculiar alchemy the smoke purifies everything it touches. But nothing about this Maha Yaghya ritual performed in the once-abandoned Vichar Nag shrine here on a recent Saturday night was simple. A week ...

The trains arrive with a whisper. The doors slide open and a puff of refrigerated air confronts the city's summertime miasma. A bell dings, the doors close and the train whisks its passengers to the next stop.This sequence of events might seem utterly ordinary on train platforms in Berlin or Bangkok, Stockholm or Singapore. But here in the sweaty h...

Ramdev plans to do for politics what he has done to India's creaky physiques: Whip it into shape. He announced last month that his political party would field candidates for each of the 543 parliamentary seats in the next general election.

Ideologically-motivated suicides in India doubled between 2006 and 2008. Mental health experts say this illustrates the increasing stress on young people in a nation where, elections notwithstanding, the masses often feel powerless.

The groaning, clattering machines never stop, transforming 12 tonnes of whole wheat flour every day into nearly a quarter-million discs of flatbread called roti. These purpose-built contraptions, each 20 feet long, extrude the dough, roll it flat, then send it down a gas-fired conveyor belt, spitting out a never-ending stream of hot, floppy,...

In the high Himalayan Kashmir valley, the latest battle line between India and Pakistan  has been drawn. This time it is not the ground underfoot, which has been disputed since the bloody partition of British India in 1947, but the water hurtling from mountain glaciers to parched farmers' fields in Pakistan's agricultural heartland.Indian work...

The ceremony is simple and common. A Kashmiri Pandit lights a fire, places some herbs, clarified butter and other offerings atop it and through its peculiar alchemy the smoke purifies everything it touches. But nothing about this Maha Yaghya ritual performed in the once-abandoned Vichar Nag shrine here on a recent Saturday night was simple. A week ...

The trains arrive with a whisper. The doors slide open and a puff of refrigerated air confronts the city's summertime miasma. A bell dings, the doors close and the train whisks its passengers to the next stop.This sequence of events might seem utterly ordinary on train platforms in Berlin or Bangkok, Stockholm or Singapore. But here in the sweaty h...

Ramdev plans to do for politics what he has done to India's creaky physiques: Whip it into shape. He announced last month that his political party would field candidates for each of the 543 parliamentary seats in the next general election.

Ideologically-motivated suicides in India doubled between 2006 and 2008. Mental health experts say this illustrates the increasing stress on young people in a nation where, elections notwithstanding, the masses often feel powerless.