Oxus

I decided to travel from Dushanbe to the southwestern province of Khatlon, which borders Afghanistan: Several of Tajikistan’s finest historical sites are there, like Takhti-Sangin, with the ruins of its third-century B.C. monumental Hellenistic temple dedicated to the Oxus River, now called the Amu Darya, and the remains of a religious complex where archaeologists uncovered what is now Central Asia’s largest surviving ancient Buddha in the 1960s.

At Beijing’s request, some countries have also sent more than 300 Uyghurs back to China since 2010, according to a study by the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs, and the Uyghur Human Rights Project, nonprofits based in Washington, D.C.

All that had happened was that its course, like the shape-shifting Oxus, had changed.

The “cameraman” set off a bomb hidden in the camera and ran from the room, jumping into the River Oxus.

Surjit Bhalla, chairman of New Delhi-based Oxus Investments, says he sees no reason why the Gujarat model can't work across India.