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The sons of the Thunder Dragon

Organized to take place each year during the first month of the lunar year, the festival of Punakha commemorates the glorious victory of the Bhutanese over the Tibetans and renews faith in the protective divinities of the country, guarantors of national unity.

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Lost from Balochistan

Lost from Balochistan is the story of the penjabis domination against the Balochis. Balochis cultivate a particular resentment against the central power, accused of enslaving them and delaying the provincial development while drawing from its rich basement.

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Kandahar – on Taliban holy land and stronghold

Kandahar is today the stronghold of insurgents, Taliban fighting against Karzai Gouvernment and NATO coalition. The insurgents make themselves justice. They terrorize or kill those collaborating with the government.

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Shanghai 2010 World expo

The chips are down in Beijing and the die is cast in Shanghai! The sleeping beauty is giving herself a makeover, spending without counting, modernizing to the extreme while still restoring her past, all for the World Expo which opens its doors in May 2010.

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The festivals of the desert

The camel fairs of Pushkar and Chandrabaga, in Rajasthan,are spectacular gatherings that evoke age-old times in the heart of an India in quest of a future…

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Syr Daria: the damned river

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From its very beginning till the Aral sea, Syr Daria river,a two thousand miles long river, accumulates the whole major ecological and water related problems one can ever face on earth.

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The idol sculptors of Kumartuli

The potters’ neighborhood in Kumartuli, in the north of Calcutta,is the fulcrum of the religious life of the Hindus. The sculptors there carry on a very old tradition: the crafting of effigies of the divinities for the end-of-year religious celebrations, the pujas.

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« We are the anti-Taliban »

About 1 million people come to Sehwan Sharif for three days every year, to mark the death of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, an ancient Sufi mystic. It is one of south Asia’s greatest parties.And an other face of Islam.

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The living Gods of the Teyyam

On the borders of Kerala and Karnataka, the age-old ritual of the Teyyam stages the gods coming down amongst Man in an incredible profusion of colours and finery. An encounter with a living myth, religion and choreography passed down through history.

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Nepal : the honey hunt of the Tiger Men.

Twenty kilometers south of Mount Everest, on cliffs rising from the middle of forests of rhododendron, the last honey hunters of the Rai people face the giant bee of the Himalayas to collect the honey of ever lasting life.

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