My friend, Prasanna brought this gift from India for me. It's a wooden replica of one of the Lion Pillars of Ashoka. The first fact that surprised and delighted me is that there are Lions in India. I had always assumed that Lions were unique to Africa1 and that Asia was the domain of the…
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January 25, 2011 - Jaali Hathi
A good friend brought this back for me from a trip to India. The intricate latticework is called jaali, an ornamental pattern constructed through the use of calligraphy and geometry. It is used heavily in Indian architecture. Hathi is the Hindi word for elephant.
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Two undersea telecommunication cables were cut on Tuesday evening, knocking out Internet access to much of Egypt, disrupting the world’s back office in India and slowing down service for some Verizon customers. (Via 2 Communication Cables in the Mediterranean Are Cut - New York Times.)
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