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Luxury hotels can deliver beautiful surroundings, great service and fabulous food, but they often fail to capture the vernacular of the country they're in. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, a melting pot of ethnicities, has no shortage of five-star accommodation, but the Oberoi is one that manages to embrace its rich local heritage. Striking Indonesian stone sculptures nestle in subtropical gardens alongside African artifacts and sugarcane thatched-roof pavilions. And its Touching Senses program introduces guests to the island's art, nature and diverse culture. Lessons range from oceanside painting with local artists and aromatherapy using...
...labyrinthine world wherein the twains of Bollywood and the American West meet. There is the print of Charlie Russell’s “Lewis and Clark Meeting the Flatheads” in one corner—a coming-together between “Indian-Feather and Indian-Dot,” Marks notes gleefully while pointing to his forehead. And in another corner, we find the intimately decorated, framed pages from some Mumbai bookseller...
Harvard’s indirect investment in a fourth firm that aids the Sudanese energy industry, the Indian state-owned conglomerate Bharat, is estimated at about $320,000. That stake is held through two India-specific funds administered by Morgan Stanley and the Blackstone Group...
...Indian capital, a series of terrible crimes has come to light, exposing the huge rift between rich and poor. The scene of the horrors: the slum village of Nithari, an island of poverty surrounded by one of Delhi's most successful suburbs, Noida. On Dec. 29, body parts from 17 young women and pre-pubescent boys - one as young as three years old - were unearthed from the storm drain of the residence of a wealthy man on the border of rich Noida and impoverished Nithari. Plastic bags full of clothing were buried in the back yard of the three-story...
...Pandher's servant Kohli has confessed to the killings, according to police. But an Indian public that has seen the rich literally get away with murder in the past may not want the investigation to stop there. Investigators have subjected both Kohli and Pandher to treatments of sodium pentathol, or truth serum, even though any evidence gathered under such conditions is imprecise and cannot be used in a court of law. Kohli has admitted under the influence of the drug that he consumed the livers of his victims, a chilling detail that has earned him the nickname Noida's Hannibal...