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Damascus

The third holiest mosque of the Muslims after Mecca and Medina and ahead of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem

Palmyra

This is two arches joined like a hinge to pivot the main street through a 30 degree turn.

Hama etc.

Make a creaky, groaning sound when they run

Aleppo

Now under restoration, it was built by the Umayyad caliphs but rebuilt several times after quakes and fire

Afamia

Afamia's peak was in the 2nd century CE when it apparently boasted a population of 500,000.

Dead Cities

A two storey tavern

Ugarit

The Greeks added the innovation of vowels to the Ugaritic alphabet, which only had consonants

Quneitra, Golan Heights

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On Being Spiritual

Nalanda University

Rereading Naipaul

An MSc and a Ph.D

On Shooting People

Respecting Religion

The Dilwara Temples

Land of the Asiatic Lion

Ghost Town in the Levant

Respecting the Holocaust

Which Thousand Words?

Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka

Al-Farabi, Islamic Philosopher

Gandhi's 'Inconsistent Pacifism'

Second Date

Size Matters!

The Carvakas

On Patriotism

Potala-in-Exile

The Namesake

The Idea of India

James Nachtwey
 Anandpur Sahib

Al-Beruni's India

Jerry Falwell, BIH

Land of Two Rivers

Wise Man Socrates

Our Moral Compass

A Day Trip to My Alma Mater

A Mousetrap for Metaphysics

America and the Cold War

On History and Historians

Respecting the Holocaust

Omar Khayyam of Persia

A Hammam in Damascus

Democracy in Athens

A Qawwali Concert

Putty in Her Hands
 The Rann of Kutch
Asian Art Museum
Nagarjunakonda

On Diversity

Reporting from Home

Truth, Lies, and Photos

Global Democracy Index

The Bold and the Beautiful

Le Corbusier's Chandigarh

Peter Brook's Mahabharata

Amartya Sen on Globalization

The True Cost of Our Gadgets

The Burning Ghats of Varanasi

Who's That Pretty Pachyderm?

The Giant Tortoises of Galapagos

Melting Girls and Serpent Women

Servitors of Divine Consciousness

On Dignity, Rights, Responsibility