The Opposite is True, Too Vox 2008-04-11T06:27:40Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d09e52182bbe2b/ Vignettes from Lauren's travel and work in India Gulmarg, the meadow of flowers blooms again tag:vox.com,2008-03-17:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00f48ce518d20002 2008-03-17T10:47:37Z 2008-04-11T06:27:40Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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GULMARG — For nearly twenty years, Mohammed Anwar Sheikh skied down the bowls of a Himalayan peak in Kashmir and waited. Not for the snow, which covered the mountain every winter with meters of powder and not for the impending construction of...

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Yamuna

Credit: graphics8.nytimes.com/.../world/29water.04.jpg So Fortune recently published a list of the 25 dirtiest cities in the world. And yes, New Delhi, the place I've been living for the...

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]]> Fame! I want to live forever! tag:vox.com,2008-02-29:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00f48cdfbe470002 2008-02-29T12:21:49Z 2008-02-29T12:53:01Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom A travel piece published in Last Exit Magazine, last month. Check out the story here.

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]]> A Twilight Zone Moment tag:vox.com,2007-10-26:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e398b6dabc0003 2007-10-26T05:21:12Z 2008-02-29T12:35:08Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Gold Temple, Amritsar

Juhi called to tell me the wedding was on and that I should wear traditional clothing. I told her no problem. I was ecstatic, in fact. This would be my first Indian wedding. I didn’t have a sari waiting in the closet (actually still don’t and wor...

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]]> Got Development? tag:vox.com,2007-10-10:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e398b15f360004 2007-10-10T10:07:12Z 2008-02-13T10:49:58Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Manas Mohanty popped his bubble gum and reclined in the comfort of his air-conditioned SUV moving past laborers washing after a day of pounding iron ore in India’s eastern town Joda, Orissa. As the car approached another stretch of highway that r...

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]]> T. I. I., This Is India tag:vox.com,2007-09-02:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e398a40bb30003 2007-10-02T09:12:03Z 2007-10-26T11:14:40Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

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Yup. I'm still in Delhi. Still writing. I spent a chunk of September traveling. First stop was in the eastern state of Orissa, a state rich in mineral-ore and yet the most indebted region in the country.Then stopped in Calcutta (Kolkata) before g...

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]]> Indian Summer tag:vox.com,2007-08-29:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e398a28b810002 2007-08-29T11:20:05Z 2007-08-29T11:20:05Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom You know you've survived the summer in India when the weather outside feels really cool and refreshing and the thermometer still reads 91 Fahrenheit.

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]]> Happy Birthday to You, India tag:vox.com,2007-08-16:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e3989e40bd0004 2007-08-16T08:05:35Z 2007-09-02T09:02:08Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Flying High India_Gate

India celebrated its 60th anniversary of independence yesterday. I pasted below an article from The Indian Express because I think it articulates some of the same points I've heard neighbors and friends make. I've also included some photos from In...

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]]> Dancing Queen tag:vox.com,2007-08-10:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e3989c69ca0005 2007-08-10T10:23:03Z 2007-08-19T21:59:21Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom If I was Hindu, or if I at least believed reincarnation, I like to think I could have been a Bollywood dancer in a former life. Not because I am a particularly gifted dancer presently, though I'v...

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]]> A Day Without Change tag:vox.com,2007-08-01:asset-6a00d09e52182bbe2b00e398997c410005 2007-08-01T12:23:57Z 2007-08-01T12:23:57Z Lauren Klein http://laurenindelhi.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom People spend a lot of time talking about change in India. Everyday, someone is debating the country's social change, political change, economic change. Is it good? Is it bad? I don't know. That's why they're debating. But I do know about a differ...

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