urban heritage, 159–162
Urdu language, 12
U.S. Technologies, 423–424
Uttar Pradesh, 484
Vajpayee, Atal Behari, 47, 170, 425, 427–428
Valentine's Day, 51, 52
Valiachan, 252–255
Varanasi, 15, 484
Varma, Pavan, 400
Varma, Raja Ravi, 282
Varshney, Ashutosh, 315–318
Vedanga Jyotisha, 311
Vedic civilization, 310, 311–314
vegetarianism, 484–485
Vidyarthi, Sudhi, 346, 347
Vietnam War, 126
villages, 485
violence
anti-Christian, 46–48
civic engagement and, 316–318
communal, 448–449
Gujarat riots, 27, 317, 318, 403
in society, 86
Vivekananda, Swami, 22–24
weddings, 485–486
Welch, West Virginia, 349–350
West, parochialism of, 229–230
Western attire, 131–136
Western Europe, Christianity as uniting factor in, 12
Wilde, Oscar, 97
women
education of, 141–143
of Kerala, 276, 277, 278–279, 284–287, 417–419
World Economic Forum, 369–371
world leadership, 396
world trade, 429–432
World Trade Organization (WTO), 429–430
Xerox, 486
Yadav, D. M., 364
yes-men, 486
Yesudas, K. J., 9
youth culture, 115–117
Yugoslavia, 11, 317
Yunus, Muhammad, 418
Zaidi, Mohamed, 392
Zaidi, S. Akbar, 431–432
zero, invention of, 310