In India, the next stage of evolution involves special socks and a substantial donation
There is no “money” in Auroville, yet the Indian boys at the café were soon bringing me patisserie for bribes.…
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Cutting through the patriotism in Russia's Victory Day march.
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Jan Morris: No one else needs to climb Everest – let’s turn it into a memorial
Everest has been violated by fame, profit, sectarian rivalry and national pride. It's time to return it to holiness.
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Nepal has become a country that can’t see the future – this quake gives us a chance to change that
I look at my house, damaged when a neighbour’s house collapsed on to it, and I wonder: will any of…
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Kathmandu mourns earthquake’s victims and continues search for survivors
It is now estimated that the death toll could reach ten thousand.
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Islamic State faces a complex web of militant groups and violence in Pakistan
The signs of Islamic State moving into Pakistan are there, but what difference does this make in a nation already…
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Why don’t you care who made your clothes?
Two years after the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, in which over a thousand people died, we still fail…
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From popular leader to enemy of the west: it is 15 years since Putin came to power
The Russian president has been in power in some capacity for 15 years. Is his political autumn finally looming?
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