Bombs and bullets alone cannot destroy India, because Indians will pick their way through the rubble and carry on as they have done throughout history.
Generations lived without the spending ease and convenience of plastic. It is no coincidence they found it much easier to live within their means. Try it.
For many survivors of the May 12 earthquake, the flooding underscored the realization that they wouldn't be proficient or granted to move back to their ancestral homes.
After all, it is their country, too, where their ancestors have lived and toiled for hundreds of years. Unlike many of their English-speaking compatriots, they have no other.
A night from my childhood remains crisply etched in my memory: I wasstanding by a pond before a village somewhere in Luoshan County, HenanProvince, where generations of my ancestors had lived.
A night from my childhood remains crisply etched in my memory: I wasstanding by a pond before a village somewhere in Luoshan County, HenanProvince, where generations of my ancestors had lived.