Anyone can receive a blessing from the temple elephant, Lakshmi. (After you give her a 100-rupee note, she whacks you gratefully on the head.) But train passengers have a special advantage: You go back at night to Hampi's central Vittala Temple complex, a compound of intricately sculpted halls with rows of pillars and the central stone chariot that gives the train its name.

FORBES: Photograph: Andre Fanthome (RAAS)

If they are found to be abiding by a list of 15 stringent measures, they will receive the center's blessing.

WSJ: Fracking coalition upsets both greens and drillers

But that antipathy is likely to grow amongst American soldiers and policymakers, as the pool of lawyers with which they must contend may soon receive a substantial addition in the form of the International Criminal Court, perhaps with the blessing of the United States government.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Ambulance-chasing, from Kabul to Gaza

If Shell Oil, Chevron Appalachia and other companies are found to be abiding by a list of stringent measures to protect the air and water from pollution, they will receive the blessing of the new Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development, created by environmentalists and the energy industry.

WSJ: Sierra Club blasts new plan to improve fracking