many, but six years after I took up hiking its valleys and hillsides, these high rewards remain. Here, perhaps like nowhere else, a physical escape up into the hills is also a mental climb down the ladders of prejudice — about what this part of the world is and what it can be. We wake up in the pretty town of Sebastia and walk towards the village of Arabe on a new section of the Masar Ibrahim, as the Abraham Path is called in the West Bank. Both places are living testaments to the layers and tides of empire that have moved forth and back for over 3,000 years. Their remnants are immense Roman walls, Greek defense towers, and a Herodian palace … Our walk in between theseBAREILLY: A woman has accused two people of abducting and raping her at gun point in Badaun district of Uttar Pradesh allegedly to save her son who was booked in a case of kidnapping.

On the woman's complaint, a case was registered and the two men named in the FIR were arrested immediately, police said.

However, on sustained interrogation of the accused and cross-questioning of victim, it came to light that the woman's son was involved in abducting the minor daughter of one of the accused. "A case was pending against him and the woman's husband, along with three others, in the court and the verdict is expected shortly," SP, city, Rajeev Malhotra said.

He said the rape story was concocted by the woman to pressurize the family of one of