Taj Mahal

India: Mathura Train Wreck Kills 21 (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

AP | Posted 10.21.2009 | World


(AP) -- Officials have confirmed that 21 people were killed today when a passenger train smashed into the rear carriage of another train. Police sa...

I'll Have What She's Having: How Mirror Neurons and Music Increase Pleasure

Suzie Heumann | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living


Suzie Heumann

Do you have music playing when you make love? I hope you do so let's assume you do. Do you notice that you like to put on the same play list, over and over, at least some of the time? The one you remember having the best lovemaking to?

BonTaj Roulet Blazes New Ground Raising Green for Greens

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Harvey Wasserman

In a tough economy, with music lovers thinking twice before going to see their favorite acts, the BonTaj Roulet Tour by Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal is blazing new green ground in raising money for charities.

When in India, Please Don't Wear a Sari

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style


Virginia M. Moncrieff

Leave the saris (the most elegant national costume in the world, no argument entered into) and the salwars, the churidors, and kurtas to the Indians. You've got your own clothes. Wear them.

Mumbai Hotels To Reopen 3 Weeks After Attacks

AP | GAUTAM SINGH | Posted 01.20.2009 | World


MUMBAI, India — Doormen in white suits and black turbans greeted visitors to the Oberoi with a bow on the eve of the hotel's reopening three wee...

The Buck Stops Somewhere: Mumbai Vs. 9/11

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics


Reese Schonfeld

Following the Mumbai attacks, the Indian home minister, Shivraj Patil, resigned to take "moral responsibility" for the deaths of 188 people. After 9/11, no federal officials resigned. Who was US Patil's counterpart?

Times Of India Editorial: "It's War"

The Times of India | Posted 12.31.2008 | World


This nation is under attack. The scale, intensity and level of orchestration of terror attacks in Mumbai put one thing beyond doubt: India is effectiv...

Mumbai Death Toll Likely To Reach 300

Telegraph | Damien McElroy and Rahul Bedi in Bombay, and Andrew Alderson | Posted 12.31.2008 | World


Piles of bodies were found yesterday after commandos stormed the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the last of three buildings that terrorists had occupied in t...

India Faces A Reckoning As Terror Toll Eclipses 180

International Herald Tribune | Somini Sengupta and Keith Bradsher | Posted 12.31.2008 | World


MUMBAI, India: Death still hung over Mumbai on Sunday, as the Indian government reckoned with troubling questions about its ability to respond to esca...

How The Mumbai Attacks Unfolded

BBC News | Posted 12.29.2008 | World


Investigators in the Indian city of Mumbai are beginning to piece together how gunmen carried out Wednesday's series of deadly attacks. The exact seq...

The King of Morocco and a Little Girl in Bombay (xvii)

Karin Badt | Posted 12.04.2008 | Living


Karin Badt

The waiter was very concerned that I liked the food -- that it was not too spicy for me -- and he came and offered me, as a treat, a handful of three Chinese fortune cookies.

Taj Mahal and Love (x)

Karin Badt | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living


Karin Badt

I enjoyed walking freely, by myself, along the long balustrade to the marble dome.