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Remo Peduzzi, managing director of ResearchDrones LLC Switzerland prepares to fly an unmanned aircraft or drone at the Kaziranga National Park at Kaziranga in Assam state, India, Monday, April 8, 2013. Wildlife authorities used drones on Monday for aerial surveillance of the sprawling natural game park in northeastern India to protect the one-horned rhinoceros from armed poachers. The drones will be flown at regular intervals to prevent rampant poaching in the park located in the remote Indian state of Assam. The drones are equipped with cameras and will be monitored by security guards, who find it difficult to guard the whole 480-square kilometer (185-square mile) reserve. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
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Two elephants attacked Mysore, a town in India's southern Karnataka state in 2011. The elephants , after entering from a nearby forest, killed one man and injured two calves. Forest rangers and officials from the Mysore Zoo eventually managed to tranquilise and capture the animals, which were due to be released back into the forest later.
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Scenes from around the Khumbarwada, the Gujarati potters' district, with their open kilns in the alleys in Mumbai, India, 2006. The kilns, which burn cloth scraps, cause much air particle pollution.
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A cameraman films the head office of Novartis India Limited in Mumbai, India, Monday, April 1, 2013. India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent a new version of a cancer drug Glivec, in a landmark decision that healthcare activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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A volunteer rests on his boat along the shore of Arabian Sea on the seventh day of the ten-day-long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, September 25, 2012. Ganesh idols are taken through the streets in a procession accompanied by dancing and singing and later immersed in a river or the sea symbolising a ritual seeing-off of his journey towards his abode, taking away with him the misfortunes of all mankind.
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Tailors at work in Shahpur Jat village in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday, July 24, 2012. The Indian economy expanded 5.3 percent in the three months ended March from a year earlier, the slowest pace since 2003.
Manish Swarup / AP
A Tibetan exile participates in a Flame of Truth march in New Delhi, India, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. The Flame of Truth was initiated worldwide by the Tibetan Parliament in Exile in Dharmsala during the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama’s birthday, on July 6 this year. It was aimed to seek intervention from the United Nations and other world communities to press the Chinese government to end its repression in Tibet
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Participants dance during Ahmedabad Rising in support of the nation wide 'One Billion Rising India Campaign' in Ahmedabad on February 14, 2013.
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Demonstrators shout slogans as they are surrounded by the police during a protest rally in New Delhi Dec. 27, 2012. Several hundred people gathered in India's capital in a bid to rekindle mass protests over the gang rape and ferocious beating of a young woman.
Rafiq Maqbool / AP
A man holds posters of B.R. Ambedkar for sale on his death anniversary in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Ambedkar was an untouchable, or dalit, who fought British colonial rule and injustice in Indian society. Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution that outlawed discrimination based on caste.
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Vijay Singh checks his Facebook account at an Internet café in Mumbai on Aug. 3, 2011. According to one report, membership to social-media sites in India is growing by 100% per year
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Asian Expansion: The Four Seasons Mumbai. More projects are underway in China and India.
Fayaz Kabli / Reuters
Soldiers of India's Border Security Force salute during their passing out parade in Humhama, on the outskirts of Srinagar, Oct. 11, 2012. Two hundred and forty-four recruits were formally inducted into the BSF on Thursday.
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In this photograph taken on December 22, 2012, Italian marines Massimiliano Latorre (R) and Salvatore Girone (L) arrive at Ciampino airport near Rome, on Dec. 22, 2012. India's Supreme Court ruled February 22, 2013 that two Italian marines accused of murdering Indian fishermen while guarding an oil tanker could return home to cast their votes in upcoming national elections.
Saurabh Das / ASSOCIATED PRESS
India students participate in a protest against the alleged inaction by the Indian government in the gang rape of a 23-year old student in a bus in New Delhi, India
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The caption that accompanied this photo in LIFE: "In a sea of Indian saris, Mrs. Kennedy and Rajasthan's governor move through Jaipur airport. On her forehead is the Rajasthani mark of luck and respect, the tika. Her silver-encased coconut also honors the occasion."
Bajaj Auto India Chairman Rahul Bajaj, second from right, speaks to a delegate during the World Economic Forum in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)
Arko Datta / Reuters
A photographer takes pictures at a blast site in Mumbai. At least 80 people were killed in a series of attacks apparently aimed at tourists in India's financial capital on Wednesday night
Saurabh Das / AP
A child is administered polio drops by a mobile unit during an anti-polio drive in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. India marked a full year since its last reported case of polio on Friday, Jan. 13.
Saurabh Das / AP
Manohar Lal Sharma, lawyer for one of the accused, speaks to journalists outside the Saket district court complex in New Delhi, on Thurs. Jan. 10, 2013.
Mustafa Quraishi/ AP
Father Khayum Khan, center, and relatives of 11 year old girl Shanno, wait for her body outside a city hospital mortuary in New Delhi, India, Friday, April 17, 2009. An 11 year old school girl died in a hospital in the Indian capital on Friday, a day after she was punished by her teacher, police and news reports said.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Not originally published in LIFE. Scene during the Kumbh Mela, India, 1953.
Bikas Das — AP
Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee speaks as she addresses a large rally in Kolkata, India, Sept. 15, 2012. Angry Indian opposition parties protested on Saturday against the government's decision to open the country's huge retail market to foreign retailers, a hike in the price of diesel fuel and reduction in cooking gas subsidies.
Not originally published in LIFE. Mohandas Gandhi’s bungalow retreat and the grounds surrounding it, India, 1946.
Not originally published in LIFE. Mohandas Gandhi's bungalow retreat and the grounds surrounding it, India, 1946.
LOBSANG WANGYAL / AFP / GettyImages
Exiled Tibetans participate in a candle light vigil over the death of Buddhist monk, from self-immolation at Kirti monastery in Tibet's Amdo region, in McLeod Ganj, India, on July 17, 2012. A teenage Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in southwest China, the latest in a series of self-immolation protests against Chinese rule.
In this photo taken June 2, 2011, a Thai custom officer shows an Indian gharial, a type of crocodile native of India, with its mouth tied at a news conference on wildlife seized in Bangkok, Thailand. Officials at Thailand's gateway airport proudly tick off the illegally trafficked wildlife they have seized over the past two years. But Thai and foreign law enforcement officers tell another story: officials working-hand-in-hand with the traffickers ensure that other shipments through Suvarnabhumi International Airport are whisked off before they even reach customs inspection. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Manish Swarup / AP
Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie walks after inspecting a guard of honor in New Delhi, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Liang is holding talks with Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony amid Beijing's growing tensions with its neighbors over territorial claims in the South China Sea.
Kevin Frayer / AP
Crowds run toward a government tanker delivering fresh drinking water in New Delhi on July 6, 2012. The capital's drought is now virtually an annual summer occurrence.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. The First Lady Jackie Kennedy and sister Lee Radziwill in India in 1962. LIFE estimated Jackie wore 22 different outfits during her trip; on one day in New Delhi she changed five times.
Mansi Thapliyal / Reutes
A woman waits at a bus stop in New Delhi Jan. 16, 2013. Since a medical student died after being gang raped on a bus in New Delhi, the issue of women's security in India has been under the spotlight.
Scott Eells / Redux
Indians pass under a sign for a Rolex watch dealer in New Delhi. India has seen a surge in the availability of luxury goods as a result of the country's ever expanding middle class.
Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images
Princess Mette-Marit of Norway and her husband Prince Haakon attend the Luxembourg royal wedding on Oct. 20, 2012. She flew to India later that month
AP
In this June 7, 2007 file photo, M.F. Husain, India's most famous artist, finishes off a canvas he painted together with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, unseen, during a fund-raising auction in central London's auction house. News reports say Hussain has died in London Thursday, June 9, 2011.
STRDEL / AFP / Getty Images
Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra gestures during his visit to the Wat Pa monastery in Bodh Gaya in India's Bihar state on November 4, 2011. He is currently living in exile
Parveen Negi / India Today Group / Getty Images
Students in New Delhi show off their new Aakash tablets on Oct. 5, 2011. The $35 device can be used for functions like word processing, Web browsing and video conferencing
Mike Hewitt / Getty Images
Pakistan's Saeed Anwar takes a swing during a 2003 cricket World Cup game against India. The teams face off again on Wednesday
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Not originally published in LIFE. Jackie Kennedy in India, 1962.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Not originally published in LIFE. Jackie Kennedy in India, 1962.
Manpreet Romana — AFP/Getty Images
Indian workers dismantle the collapsed footbridge at the Jawaharlal Stadium, the main venue for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi on September 21, 2010. A footbridge under construction at the main stadium for the Delhi Commonwealth Games collapsed, injuring up to six labourers, an AFP reporter and police said. The structure, a steel arch supporting an approximately 50 metres (164 feet) footbridge, fell down just outside the main Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium which will host the opening ceremony and athletics when the showpiece event begins on October
Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum
Inspecting oil barrels in India, where steel drums are still sometimes used. Most of our oil is stored in tanks.
AP
People stand around a damaged vehicle at the site of an explosion in Mumbai, India. Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India's financial capital.
Jayanta Shaw / Reuters
Men work on the damaged part of the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai. The hotel is set to reopen its doors on December 21.
AP
"How does the memory of cricket fit with what happened in a Mumbai hotel, where 76 of the world's best cricketers were auctioned off to eight Indian franchises? The answer is that it does not fit at all."
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Jackie Kennedy presents a cup to Princess Gayatri Devi, right, and members of a polo team in Jaipur in March 1962.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Jackie Kennedy during her tour of India in March 1962.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Jackie Kennedy during her visit to India in March 1962.
EPA
A photo of a Aarushi Talwar put up for a prayer meeting in Noida, India. Aarushi was murdered at her residence last week in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Mrs. Kennedy smiles with the U.S. ambassador to India, John Kenneth Galbraith, in 1962.
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FOUNDING FATHERS: History carved divergent paths for China and India. Today, globalization is bringing them together
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THE DIRTIEST WORK:
Women in the Bihar state of India, one of the country's poorest, carry away the contents of latrines. Only members of the untouchable caste perform that low-paying task
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An unidentified convicted Indian prisoner consoles his son from inside a police vehicle in Ahmedabad on August 29, 2012, after his conviction for murder. An Indian court has convicted a former state minister and 31 others of murder during one of the worst massacres in religious riots in Gujarat in 2002.
Monica Wilson / AP
In this 2007 photo, field assistant Shiva Rathore carries two recently excavated sauropod eggs back to a truck in at Gujarat, central India. The fossilized remains of a 67 million-year-old snake found coiled around a dinosaur egg offer rare insight into the ancient reptile's dining habits and evolution, scientists said Tuesday, March 2, 2010
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An array of solar panels installed atop the Tirumala Temple's "Nitya Annadanam canteen" in Tirupathi, India, to facilitate operation of steam cookers. This is the world's largest solar steam cooking system.
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During the final full dress rehearsal for India's Republic Day Parade in New Delhi, a replica of India's Agni-III missile passes by spectators. The Agni is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Jackie Kennedy attends a formal event with Princess Stanislas Radziwill, right, in India in 1962.
Mustafa Quraishi / AP
An injured man, right, shouts for help as others lie injured on a road after a bomb explosion in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. Witnesses say at least one explosion has hit a central New Delhi shopping area, leaving several people wounded
SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA / AFP / GETTY
Railway officials and workers clear the debris off of a train that was ripped open by a bomb blast in Mumbai, Tuesday. Seven explosions occurred in commuter trains and stations during evening rush hour, killing at least 163 people
Manish Swarup / AP
Bajaj Auto India Chairman Rahul Bajaj, second from right, speaks to a delegate during the World Economic Forum in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on Nov. 7, 2012.
James Nachtwey / VII for TIME
Dalai Lama on the grounds of his private residence in Dharamsala, India. He walks a path between his home and his official office. He is guarded by the Indian military. Each time he passes, the sentries come to a salute with their arms.
GeoEye Satellite Image
Satellite image of airstrip on Diego Garcia, an atoll located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, some 1,000 miles (1,600 km) south off India's southern coast. Since the enforced depopulation of Diego Garcia in the years leading up to 1973, it has been used as a military base by the United States.
Art Rickerby—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unpublished. Mrs. Kennedy, center, with Mrs. Indira Gandhi, third from left, attend a sporting event on the First Lady's tour of India in March 1962.
Ian Cumming / Getty Images / Axiom
Jaipur's magnificent Amber Fort blends Hindu and Islamic styles of design
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The caption that accompanied this photo in the March 30, 1962, issue of LIFE: "At Jaipur, sitting in an elaborately carved howdah, Jackie and her sister [Lee Radziwill] ride on a trumpeting female elephant, newly painted and spangled for the show." Published in the March 30, 1962 article of LIFE titled, "Jackie Leaves Her Mark on India and Vice Versa."
Michael Rubenstein / Redux for TIME
The Nano at Tata's factory in Pune on March 15
Courtesy of Monika Lutz
Monika Lutz, 18, plans to self-finance her 14-month adventure. She worked with a solar-power firm in India (where she also taught kids the Macarena) and has lined up internships in Monaco and China.
Courtesy Yash Raj Films
Shahrukh Khan in "Chak De! India"
Courtesy of Olivia Ragni
Olivia Ragni, 19, scrubs an elephant in Thailand. During her gap year, Ragni also volunteered at a hospital in India and studied Spanish in Guatemala.
SEBASTIAN D’'SOUZAAFP / GETTY IMAGES
SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION? Berkley began human vaccine trials in India this year
BHARAT SIKKA FOR TIME
HOME: After Bandit Queen, Kapur left for Hollywood. Now he's back in India
EPA
Indian police keep watch at one of the explosion sites in Ahmedabad, India, Sunday, July 27.
ADNAN ABIDI / REUTERS
From left: India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrive for a photo opportunity ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, on May 20, 2013.
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India's diabetes epidemic has triggered surging demand for dialysis
Tsering Topgyal / AP
Farmers from India’s Haryana state cross a main road as they take out a protest against the land acquisition by the Haryana government in New Delhi, March 5, 2013.
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