Last week, after getting a complaint from a fringe right-wing group that one of their publications (The Hindus, Wendy Doniger's alternative history of Hinduism) "hurt the religious feelings of millions of Hindus," they thought it was right to consent to the wishes of madmen and remove the book from Indian shelves.
Household ornaments include "meditation bells," Buddha statues made from stone, wood, and terracotta, and a "three-shelf Indian glass curio cabinet" ($100 / £65) to keep them all in.
There are bins and bins of cumin seeds, green cardamom pods, coriander, garam masala and peppercorns, as well as bags of highly addictive and spicy Indian fried snacks, shelves of incense and hair products and one aisle devoted to 10-pound bags of aromatic basmati rice (who would buy less?).
Distribution: Western and Eastern Pacific; Central Atlantic: MAR (Rainbow); North Indian Ocean; Antarctic: Larson Shelf; 549 2005 m.
Recent species: edisonensis, kilmeri, nankaiensis, ochotensis, okutanii, soyoae, four undescribed species from MAR (Rainbow, Pleistocene), off Costa Rica, the Larson shelf, and the Indian Ocean.
She begins with a detailed tour of a typical Indian grocery store, aisle by aisle and shelf by shelf, making us understand without saying so that we are about to tour an entire culture.
Its physical divisions are not as distinct as those of Sumatra, because the continental shelf drops sharply to the Indian Ocean in the southern part of the island.
Whenever Lancaster led a guest through the main house, which he bought in 1978, he pointed out an original mantel shelf rimmed with carvings reminiscent of Indian basketwork.
To a growing shelf of fictional portraits of the Indian expatriate experience, S. Mitra Kalita now adds a work of nonfiction that stands up well in their company.
The present study provided new evidence of probable 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami deposits left on the inner shelf of the Andaman Sea (Thailand) and identified the diagnostic sedimentological and geochemical properties of these deposits.
