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India Karate Kids: Schoolchildren's Arms Run Over With Motorbike As A Test

Huffington Post | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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A school in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu recently demonstrated students' advancement in karate training by ceremoniously running over their outstret...

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In Sri Lanka: The Basics for Americans

Jim Luce | Posted 07.09.2009 | World

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Jim Luce

As I travel through Sri Lanka, covering the nation as it seeks reconciliation among its diverse population after decades of conflict, I am receiving e-mails from my friends at home asking me to review the basics.

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In Sri Lanka: Explaining the Tamil Tigers

Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | World

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Jim Luce

The Sri Lankan government has battled the Tamil Tigers on two fronts for almost three decades: on the battlefield and in the arena of world opinion. No one thought they could win militarily, but they did.

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Sri Lanka, The UN's "Bloodbath" In Context

Derek Flood | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

Read More: Tamil Tigers, M.I.A., Tamil Nadu, Obama, India, President-Mahinda-Rajapaksa, Un, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, World News
Derek Flood

While the Sri Lankan government appears to be close to consolidating its hold on the country's turbulent northeast, a massive humanitarian drama, largely unseen by the international media, is unfolding.

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Clips from India: Rameswaram (i)

Karin Badt | Posted 09.27.2008 | Style

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Karin Badt

So far it is my favorite temple in India, perhaps not for sacred reasons, but for the pleasure of walking barefoot along the long 800 year old corridors, the cement smoothened by thousands of pilgrim footsteps.

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Clips from India: Kodaikanal (iii)

Karin Badt | Posted 09.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Carlton Hotel, Tamil Nadu, Travel, India, Spirituality, Kodaikanal, Living News
Karin Badt

Kodaikanal I treated myself to a five star hotel in Kodaikanal---mostly because I wanted a hot shower over two months of heat and dust, and also in k...

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