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Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary (bottom) were the first to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest. A new biography (top) profiles Tenzing's journey through life. (Photograph copyright Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS, Cover Art courtesy Royal Geographical Society)

In a new biography, Tenzing: Hero of Everest, recently issued by National Geographic Books, author Ed Douglas profiles the life of Tenzing Norgay. Together with Edmund Hillary, the climber became the first human to stand atop the world's highest mountain.

India was mending fences with China as well as Pakistan before the visit by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage to South Asia this week. Given close ties and reports of nuclear and missile cooperation between Islamabad and Beijing

After the 2000 U.S. presidential elections in Florida made democracy in America safe and secure in a few powerful hands, instead of scattered among the millions of weak ones belonging to citizens who don’t grasp the Orwellian significance

On landing in China, George Fernandes is said to have received a "red carpet" welcome. Most analysts agree that it augurs well for the Sino-Indian relations. However, one question arises immediately: What does a grand reception in China really mean?

These are times when destructive emotions like anger, fear and hatred are giving rise to devastating problems throughout the world. While the daily news offers grim reminders of the destructive power of such emotions

Half a million pilgrims came to Bodh Gaya, India in May, 2002, for a ritual invoking world peace and harmony. The Buddhist Kalachakra Initiation takes place every 12 years under the Tree of Enlightenment in this northern Indian village known as the birthplace of Buddhism.

The new Chinese leadership has just taken over the reins of the most populous nation in the world. Already many dark clouds are appearing in the sky of the Middle Empire. With the Iraq war nearing its end, what is going to happen during the next few months is anybody's guess.

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His cosy little basement office is lined with rows and rows of books, mostly on religion and spirituality; photographs of the Dalai Lama share a comfortable space all over with those of Ramakrishna Paramhansa's and yet, filmmaker Rajiv Mehrotra prefers to call himself an "undeserving spiritual aspirant".