Topic: South Asia

India's magicians: striving hard not to disappear

Prakash Mavinkurve is an unlikely magician. He works as a hospital anaesthesiologist in Mumbai -- and uses his breaks to hone his magic skills, stage routine and one-liners.Medical colleagues and a captive audience of patients provide a perfect stage for coin or ...
The premise in the Haffa House Hotel, at Ruwi (in Muscat- Oman), was dimly lit but it was aglow with warm smiles and a magical atmosphere as the man who has mesmerised millions over the past five decades sat amid three of ...

Geography of Patna

India, the capital of Bihar state. It is on the Ganges River in northeastern India, 290 miles (467 km) northwest of Calcutta. Buried beneath Patna is the ancient city of Pataliputra, capital of the Magadha kingdom in the sixth century B.C. Patna ...

How to Play Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders is a game of luck played between any number of players over two in which the objective is to avoid the snake slides and climb the ladders to the end of the grid pattern playing board. Though well known ...

The history of papier mache

Papier Mache is an art of making objects with paper, reinforced with rags and stuck together using a liquid wet paste such as glue, starch or wall paper adhesive. Papier Mache has been used to imitate materials like stone, wood, metal etc. ...
There is no greater joy to a teacher than to hear parents say their boy hated school until he came to that teacher's class. Cut out the fish and turn it over to trace it on the second butcher paper. Staple a ...

How to play Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders is a game of luck played between any number of players over two in which the objective is to avoid the snake slides and climb the ladders to the end of the grid pattern playing board. Snakes and Ladders, ...

Board game reviews: Maharaja

Maharaja is Avalon Hill's strategy board game based on the ebb and flow of Indian history. Starting around 1500 BC, with the peaceful Harappan Empire, the first city builders in India, facing invasion from Afghanistan and Central Asia by the ancestors of ...

Game reviews: Parcheesi

Parcheesi is a classic board game. Parcheesi is a race to the finish game where individual players try to get all four of their tokens from their home nest to the finish line. Parcheesi, which is a derivative of Pachisi, an ancient ...
Most of the tourists who come to India like to take back handicraftsfrom here due to their innate qualities. They know how desperate people are to get one or theother kind of handicrafts.
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