Topic: Ganges River
The annals of American legal lunacy expand with the case of 16 Hindu vegetarians who won the okay to sue a New Jersey restaurant that mistakenly...
Let's start with tigers. The World Wildlife Fund (commonly known as the 'non-wrestling' WWF) estimates that there may be as few as 3,200 tigers in...
The endless march of technology means that very little surprises us these days. We long for the kinds of adventures that were had by explorers of...
The Himalayan town of Rishikesh in northern India is welcoming hundreds of foreign tourists for its annual yoga festival, with visitors keen to learn the ancient art by the sacred River Ganges."Yoga doesn't flow in our veins like it does ...
New Yoga Meditation CD Helps Yoga Teacher Training Instructors and Students Deepen Their Om Practice
New Yoga Meditation CD Helps Yoga Teacher Training Instructors and Students Deepen Their Om Practice . . A new Yoga Meditation CD has been released...
by cycle-rickshaw, foot, rowboat, and any other means possible. Last weekend National Geographic Weekend host (and Traveler columnist) Boyd Matson...
A miniature sloth, the "Asian unicorn" and a bushbaby known as the rondo dwarf galago were Friday added to the Zoological Society of London's list of genetically distinct and endangered mammals.Three species of long-beaked echidna's are ranked equal first ...
From Asia, Australia, India, North America and ancient Greece have come tales surrounding rivers and stories to explain how rivers came about. One myth from the Eastern Asian people tells that the two stars, Altair and Vega, who resided on opposite sides ...
Water is a prominent part of many religious and spiritual traditions both East and West. Hindus consider water and the intersections of bodies of water to be of great spiritual significance, the Ganges river in particular. Likewise, in Muslim traditions, water is ...
I am a tour leader, taking people on organized holidays to India. In 2004 I had such an amazing experience in Rishikesh in India. Moving on our journey, almost half an hour into our journey we visited another temple , here I wanted ...
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India New Year
An Indian Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, adds the sunrise to figures ...AP News - -
India Hindu Festival
An Indian Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, is covered in ash as ...AP News - -
Climate 09 The Rising Seas
This Sept. 30, 2009 photo shows children looking for recyclable material on ...AP News -
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Ganges River - Pollution
The Ganges collects large amounts of human pollutants as it ...2007-10-07 -
Ganges River - An Introduction
The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of ...2007-10-07 -
Ganges River - Cremation
People travel from distant places to immerse the ashes of ...2007-10-07
