http://nazaronline.net Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:19:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "And this is why Chandni Chowk is emblematic of India!" my friend’s mother and ersatz guide exclaimed as we walked through the crowded, vibrant, and definitely pungent Bazaar. "It showcases India's diversity! Here's the biggest mosque in India, right down there is a Ram temple (Hindu deity), further down is ... http://nazaronline.net/religion_culture/2010/08/emblematic-agra/ Niyantha Shekar celebrated his recent graduation from UT with a trip across Western Europe. In this new Travel & Living/In Focus column, he plans to share his experiences and some of the millions of pictures he took. June 19, 2010 I just walked out of the Mauthausen concentration camp. ... http://nazaronline.net/travel-living/2010/08/excerpts-from-a-travel-diary/ Disclaimer: This author is aware that Endhiran is the first Indian album to reach the top of the iTunes chart1. But she would like to make it clear that she does not consider commercial success the only indicator of a good album. She would also like to emphasize that what ... http://nazaronline.net/arts/2010/08/endhiran-a-music-review/ [flash http://www.slideflickr.com/slide/k4dDSwmm w=500 h=500] I recently spent a delightful fortnight in Central America, visiting my parents in Panama. While touring Panama and nearby El Salvador, I came across an intriguing set of seemingly odd expatriates - a pizza bakery owner from Napoli, a tour-guide from Arizona, and a chef and ... http://nazaronline.net/religion_culture/2010/08/foreign-people-from-foreign-lands/ Falling in love with the wilderness is a different experience from anything else. It is the experience of going to sleep when darkness falls, with the sparkling lights of hundreds of thousands of stars surrounding you. It is the experience of waking to the birds singing and the sunlight gently ... http://nazaronline.net/travel-living/2010/08/one-of-the-best-yosemite-national-park/ When I was about 14 or 15, my cousin and I decided to build a swing. This contraption was constructed out of an old sofa cushion, a couple pieces of rope, and our own tenuous grasp of physics. It hung on a friendly limb of the old neem tree, sentinel ... http://nazaronline.net/religion_culture/2010/08/nostalgia/ Niyantha Shekar celebrated his recent graduation from UT with a trip across Western Europe. In this new Travel & Living/In Focus column, he plans to share his experiences and some of the millions of pictures he took. ** June 8, 2010 ** I was walking through the Gothic ... http://nazaronline.net/travel-living/2010/07/excerpts-from-a-travel-diary-barcelona/ Mani Ratnam’s Raavan is a bold take on the mythological epic of Ramayan1 as it is enshrined in the minds of the masses – that Ram the noble, and righteous guy defeats Raavan the mighty, and immoral ruler. The baseline in the movie is still the same, ... http://nazaronline.net/arts/2010/07/raavanan-and-raavan/ Have you ever seen a movie where you walked out of the theater thinking “Hmm…good movie, but this couldn’t happen in real life. Or wait, could it?”  Well, Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti is one such experience. The film has an all-star cast consisting of Ranbir Kapoor, Manoj Bajpai, Ajay Devgan, Arjun ... http://nazaronline.net/arts/2010/06/rajneeti-a-review-and-beyond/ Little more than a month ago, a beleaguered Jean-Francois Cope wrote the New York Times (NYT) complaining that the Amnesty International and other critics had unfairly attacked proposed French legislation to ban the burqa. NYT helpfully explains that Cope is the majority leader of the French National Assembly, and a ... http://nazaronline.net/politics/2010/06/the-french-notion-of-freedom/