Schoolchildren gather in front of the Red Fort in New Delhi, India, during Independence Day celebrations Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2001. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said during his speech to the nation that Pakistan should stop supporting militancy in Kashmir and pursue dialogue for a peaceful resolution of the festering dispute over the Himalayan territory. (AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi, wearing dark glasses, sits on the ground with other unidentified supporters in front of the Madras central jail after his arrest from his residence in Madras, India, Saturday, June 30, 2001. Karunanidhi, a powerful regional politician and a partner in India's ruling coalition government, was arrested allegedly in a 120 million rupees ($2.6 million) government scandal in a project to build 10 highway overpasses in the state capital. (AP Photo/str)

Spiritual highway: It is the latest Indian spiritual site and perhaps the most authentic. Launched by no less an eminence than Jayendra Saraswati Swamigal of Kanchi  Kamakoti Peetam in Tamil Nadu, slokas.com  features Vedic chantings, hymns and rituals. It will also have ancient scriptures and biographies of saints and gurus. Net mantra: Jayendra Saraswati inaugurating the site.

A herd of sheep grazes on lush green field as monsoon clouds hover on Calcutta's skyline, India, Saturday  July 28, 2001. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

Indian drought (AP Photo/Tarun Das)

Indian electric car

A potter makes earthen lamps in Calcutta, India Thursday Nov. 1, 2001, for the upcoming Hindu festival Diwali. Hindus illuminate their houses in the evening to celebrate the light festival on Nov. 14, 2001, which also marks the beginning of the Hindu New Year. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

An unidentified potter makes earthen lamps in Bhopal, central India, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001, for the upcoming Hindu festival Deepavali. All the Hindus illuminate their houses in the evening to celebrate the light festival on Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne)

A farmer ploughs his land as an Indian border security guard keeps a watch near the India-Pakistan border village Pargwal, India, Thursday Oct.18, 2001. Pargwal is the border town where Indian army soldiers opened mortar and artillery fire on Pakistani posts Oct. 15, 2001. (AP Photo/M. Mahajan)

An Indian postal worker tries to protect himself, with a handkerchief over his nose and plastic bags over his hands, while collecting letters from a mail box in Bhopal October 22, 2001. An anthrax scare has spread around the world after several cases in which the deadly bacteria was sent to people through the mail. (Stringer/India/Reuters) 

An elephant walks with his mahouts on a busy road in New Delhi, April 6, 2002. India's elephant population is teetering on the brink of extinction because of rampant poaching and brutal training methods. The elephants that live with their owners outside the city limits often come into Delhi in search of food. The owners also earn some money by putting them on show or giving people a ride. REUTERS/B. Mathur

A group of Hindu men covered in colored powder rest after a "Holi" celebration in Guwahati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, March 29, 2002. Colored dust is extensively used in the Hindu religious festival of Holi, which heralds the beginning of spring and is celebrated with great enthusiasm all over India. REUTERS/Uptal Baruah

Elephants walk in the shadow of the famous Taj Mahal in Agra March 26, 2002 as they prepare to take a bath in the nearby Yamuna River. From tropical beaches to Beijing's Forbidden City and the Taj Mahal in India, tourism is a big driver of Asian economies and is poised to rebound next year, the Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Str

An elderly Hindu woman prepares cow dung cakes, used as fuel for cooking, near Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, March 6, 2002. Normalcy is returning to Ahmadabad after a week of religious violence which claimed 58 Hindu lives and set off riots and attacks that left more than 500 people dead, most of them Muslims. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma)

Indian police stand guard outside the Indian parliament building in New Delhi, December 13, 2001. A group of armed men opened fire in India's parliament on Thursday, killing several people in an unprecedented attack on the seat of government in a nation frequently racked by violence. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore 

James Syiemiong stands next to a pair of leather shoes, which he claims to be the world's largest, in Shillong, India, Saturday, April 6, 2002. Syiemiong, a 30-year-old college dropout who went into the family shoemaking business, said he ``wanted to bring a smile'' to the faces of children of the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The shoes measure measuring 4.06 yards long and 1.24 yards wide. (AP Photo)

An Indian boy walks with his sister to fetch water in Panchkula, north of New Delhi, May 15, 2002. India is suffering from a heat wave with temperatures on a daily basis hitting 104-113 degrees, with at least 178 people having died in the southern parts of the country. Photo by Dipak Kumar/Reuters

An unidentified patient suffering from asthma is administered traditional medicine inside a live fish at Hyderabad, India, Saturday June 8, 2002. The medicine, which is quite sought after by patients of asthma, is prepared by the Bathini Goud family of Hyderabad and is given out only once a year for the duration of 24 hours on an auspicious day decided by astrological calculations. Nearly 700,000 patients are expected to receive treatment this year. (AP Photo/P. Anil Kumar)

A monkey who belongs to a roadside entertainer sips from a bottle of soft drink in Jullunder, India on Wednesday, June 12, 2002. Temperatures are on the rise again in Northern India with some parts recording a high of 44 degrees Celsius (111 degrees Fahrenheit). (AP Photo/Press Trust of India)

A woman fetches water from a pit on the dry bed of the Upper Lake in Bhopal, India, Sunday, June 9, 2002. Upper lake, which is spread over 32 square kilometers, (20 miles) is a major source of drinking water for the residents. More than 24 square kilometers (15 miles) have dried up due to insufficient rain in the last three years. (AP Photo/Prakash Hatvalne)

An child places his arms in a tray full of milk as rats drink at the Karni Mata Hindu temple in the town of Deshnoke in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan. Rats, hundreds and hundreds of them, are everywhere at the temple in the state and woe betide anyone who takes fright and steps on one. Picture taken June 20, 2002. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore/

Security at Taj Mahal during tension between India and Pakistan (attack on Indian Parliament) Dec, 2002

Elephants at Play - undated

Indian girls display their hands, painted with the colors of the Indian national flag, during a parade to mark Republic Day in the northern city of Chandigarh, January 26, 2002. India celebrated its birth as a republic on Saturday with heavily armed security forces on the streets to calm fears of fresh violence at a time of tension with its nuclear neighbor Pakistan. REUTERS

Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, left, offers a hand of friendship to Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002, after Musharraf's speech at the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Katmandu, Nepal. Relations between the two nations have been extremely tense since Dec. 13, when militants attacked India's parliament. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) 

A man pumps water from the polluted banks of the Yamuna River to quench the thirst of an elephant in New Delhi's slums in India Thursday, Aug. 29, 2002. Along with animals thousands of people use water from such sources in the area. The 10-day World Summit on sustainable development, which began on Monday in South Africa, is also focusing on drinking water availability in developing nations along with an action plan to reduce poverty and save the planet's resources. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) 

Participating Cricket World Cup teams, in rows from front to back, South Africa, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, England, Netherlands, India, Kenya, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe, pose for a photograph against a back drop of Table Mountain, covered in it's 'Table Cloth' cloud, in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday Feb. 8, 2003, hours before the opening ceremony to be held at the Newlands Cricket Stadium. (AP
Photo/POOL)

Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, right, stands next to schoolmate Desi Chawla, in an undated photograph taken in their hometown of Karnal and shown to the media in Karnal Haryana, India on Sunday Feb. 2, 2003. While Kalpana Chawla moved from Karnal more than two decades ago she remains a hero to the people who followed her career at NASA that ended with Saturday's space shuttle catastrophe. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

An Indian policeman displays nails from a crude explosive device jutting out from an orange that was recovered from a blast site in Bombay, January 27, 2003. At least 27 people were injured, seven of them seriously, in an explosion in a busy suburb of India's financial capital Bombay late Monday, which police said was probably caused by a home-made bomb. Bombay Police
Commissioner R.S. Sharma told reporters that what appeared to have been a home-made bomb exploded on a bicycle next to a motorized rickshaw in a busy market area. REUTERS

An Indian farmer carries fodder for his cattle in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh, January 25, 2003. Strong sunshine in northern India on Friday appeared to break a month-long cold spell that has killed nearly 1,600 people in South Asia since Christmas. Photo by Dipak Kumar/Reuters