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  • Pandey at the Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan. Photo: Riverbank Studios

    What We Understand,
    We Respect and Protect

    Every species on the planet has a role to play in a delicate web of life, says Indian wildlife filmmaker Mike Pandey. He is convinced that the key to caring for the environment is education, and that when people learn how plants and animals are ...
    Photo: Riverbank Studios

  • Former U.S. president and Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carter (from left), wife, Rosalynn, and Sushil Mittal. The Carters received the Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award at James Madison University on September 21, 2009, the International Day of Peace. Photo: JMU Photography

    Gandhi’s Growing Influence in a Virginia Community

    The Gandhi center at James Madison University advances the practice of nonviolence.
    Photo: JMU Photography

  • The special, India-edition Harley-Davidson Fatboy, which was unveiled at the New Delhi Auto Expo in January. Photo courtesy Harley-Davidson India

    An American Icon
    Enters India

    The deep, throbbing rumble of the legendary American motorcycle will soon be heard on Indian streets.
    Photo courtesy Harley-Davidson India

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Jon Dunn and Kate Schnepel watch as Raje Saab prepares to surrender Raju bear to Wildlife SOS at their sanctuary in Bannerghatta, Karnataka. Photo courtesy Wildlife SOS

Virtual Volunteers

Americans are donating their skills in media and information technology and raising funds for Wildlife SOS, which rescues sloth bears, peacocks, and all kinds of wildlife in India...
Robyn Zgorski swims with fishes at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: SUN WOODS © AP-WWP/The Washington Times

Aquariums Let You Swim With the Fishes

Guest diver programs at several U.S. aquariums allow people to rub shoulders with goliath groupers, scratch a turtle’s back and watch zebra sharks do underwater loops...
The Mughal Garden in Pinjore, Haryana. Belonging to Fidai Khan Koka, the supervisor of the Badshahi mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, it is the only terraced garden of the 17th century that has survived in the Haryana-Punjab region; the Hazrat Shah Najm-al-Haq mosque and tomb complex in Sohna, Haryana; Sheikh Chilli's tomb and madrasa in Thanesar, Haryana; a Mughal caravan resting stop in Gharunda, Haryana. Photographs courtesy Centre for South Asian Art & Archaeology

Organizing History

Unexplored monuments from Punjab and Haryana are being documented by a group of Indian and American archaeologists and researchers on a grant from the U.S. State Department’s...
Photo courtesy Dhaya Lakshminarayanan

Tickling America’s Funny Bone

Indian values, food and yoga find a place in the stand-up act of Indian American comedian
Dhaya Lakshminarayanan...

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Social Development

Bharati Chaturvedi at her office in New Delhi. PhotoL: AJIK KUMARYour Waste is Her Business:
An Environmental Activist Brings Hope to Ragpickers

Bharati Chaturvedi, founder of the New Delhi-based NGO Chintan, has set out to re-make the image of kabari wallahs, ragpickers and junk dealers in India. Her message is not just for the householders who directly or or indirectly benefit from their services every day. It is for the marginalized communities themselves.  » Read More
Lifestyle

Photo courtesy Andrea ParrishRecycle? Couple Knows They Can Do It

A young American couple collects aluminum cans to pay for their wedding—and help the Earth, too.

After I walked down the aisle nearly six years ago I patted myself on the back for everything I did to cut costs: I bought my wedding dress wholesale for less than 500 bucks, I got married in April because it was cheaper than a summer affair, and I got my flowers for free because my mom entered me in a raffle that I surprisingly won. » Read More
Arts

Nature and the City:
Celebrating Balance with Indian American Artist Delna Dastur

Though Delna Dastur creates her art in extremely different locations—one being a tranquil, tree-shaded studio in Alexandria, Virginia and the other a high-rise apartment balcony in Mumbai—she does not necessarily let her unique lifestyle define her work.   » Read More

Business

Vegan American celebrities: Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres; musician Moby; actors Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck; and actresses Portia de Rossi and Alicia Silverstone (above), who has written a book, The Kind Diet.One Small Step for Vegans:
A vegan mini-mall sprouts in Portland, Oregon, offering some unexpected vegan products and services.

The corner of 12th and Stark Streets in Southeast Portland, Oregon, is home to what may be the world’s first all vegan shopping mini-mall.    » Read More

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