India is rising and the world is taking note.NRNs & Premjis -- who as Czars of Nasdaq & NYSE listed conglomerates, made their riches in dollars & pounds are national heroes while a common man(NRI) attracted by the currency conversion factor-40x for a dollar,80x for a pound is a deserter. This despite NRIs pouring in $90 billion back to India !

Indian Wells residents attended a Tuesday evening screening of the new film "Smoke Screen," co-written and produced by fellow resident Jean Blake Fleming, at Desert Horizons Country Club.

Researchers are reporting that the ocean's biological deserts have been expanding, and they are growing much faster than global warming models predict. All of the biological deserts had grown, except the South Indian Ocean's. The total expansion was 6.6 million sq. kilometers or 15%, and it happened as the shallow waters of the gyres were warming

The first report appeared on the internet,telling that the skeleton was found somewhere in the deserts of western India. The Indian government had the area cordoned off by the Indian army and nobody was allowed to visit the site except a special National Geographic excavation team.......

pop icon Madonna and her film director husband Guy Ritchie rang in the New Year in a remote village in the northern Indian desert state of Rajasthan...

English cuisine is shaped by the country's temperate climate, its island geography and its history. The latter includes interactions with other European countries, and the importing of ingredients and ideas from places such as North America, China and India during the time of the British Empire and as a result of post-war immigration.As a result, traditional foods with ancient origins, such as bread and cheese, roasted and stewed meats, meat and game pies, and freshwater and saltwater fish, are now matched in popularity by potatoes, tomatoes and chillies from the Americas, spices and curries from India and Bangladesh, and stir-fries based on Chinese and Thai cooking. French cuisine and Italian cuisine, once considered alien, are also now admired and copied. Britain was also quick to adopt the innovation of fast food from the United States, and continues to absorb culinary ideas from all over the world.These trends are exemplified by dishes such as spaghetti bolognese which has been a common family meal in Britain since at least the 1960s. More recently there has been a huge growth in the popularity of dishes influenced by the Indian Sub-Continent (a throwback to the times of British influence in the region), though modified to suit British tastes. The British curry, essentially a holdover from the days of the British Raj (and subsequently embellished by immigrants), may be hotter and spicier than the traditional North Indian variety.