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Indian Passport (Source: Wikipedia (Indian Passport))
Indians tend to have trouble getting visas. But did you know that this hasn't and isn't always the case?
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (Source: NASA (International Space Station Imagery))
This Malaysian surgeon and astronaut has a curious link to India.
Cover of the novel, Monkey, by Arthur Waley (Source: Wikipedia)
Did you know that one of China's greatest epics is all about getting to India?

Quotable quotes

Akbar never denied his mother anything but this …

Ecbar Shaugh [Emperor Akbar] … never denyed [his mother] any thing but this, that shee demanded of him, that our Bible might be hanged about an asses necke and beaten about the towne of Agra, for that the Portugals … tyed [the Quran] about the necke of a dogge and beat the same dogge about the towne of Ormuz. But hee denyed her request, saying that, if it were ill in the Portugals to doe so to the Alcoran, being it became not a King to requite ill with ill, for that the contempt of any religion was the contempt of God.

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