Nearly half the world lives on two dollars a day – or less. We’ll look at exactly how they do that. It’s surprising.

In a global economy in trouble, we’ll get the big view from India, with super-entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani.

Surprise hit “Slumdog Millionaire” swept the Golden Globes — and it’s a top Oscar contender. Now critics and moviegoers, from Cleveland to Mumbai, are talking about it.

An Indian-American writer, who’s gone back to India in search of opportunity, talks about how he sees India and America now.

After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.

Crunch time on Tibet. China smacks down autonomy. Tibetans talk of independence. The Dalai Lama says be careful. We’ll look into the Himalayas.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh talks about 19th-century India and the opium trade in his sweeping new epic, “Sea of Poppies.”

An American girl journeys back to her homeland to find a husband. We talk with Anita Jain, author of “Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India.”

From the misty, half-attuned, still-in-the-American-Century shores of the United States, China and India can look like peas in a pod: two rising Asian giants with screaming growth rates and lots of what used to be American jobs.
Look closer, and these are very different cats. China is the factory floor and India the back-office, software shop. [...]

As stock markets around Asia and the world headed south today, India’s finance minister tried to calm the selling: “Look,” he said, “India’s economy is headed for a booming 9 percent growth this year.” So he hopes.
And what will Indians spend that plenty on? India’s industrial giant Tata hopes they will soon be spending it [...]

Here’s a callout to American fans of Indian food. After you’ve enjoyed your samosa and chicken tikka masala, and maybe a curry and some goolab jam, Chitrita Banerji wants you to know there’s a much bigger world out there.
A universe barely touched on most Indian menus in America of rich and varied cuisine from the [...]

With all the hullabaloo in Washington over Dubai port operators and Iraq war woes, President Bush may glad to get out of town this week – and he’s getting way out of town, to India and Pakistan.
Half a world away, booming India is emerging as a new partner and a new challenge — as a [...]