- Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 18:37
- India
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(This is a guest column by Roger Alexander.)
Michael Jackson performed in Bombay, in fact India, only once - on October 31, 1996 – as part of the HIStory tour that year.
The concert was organised by Raj Thackeray's Shiv Udyog Sena with the objective of providing jobs to 27 lakh youth in Maharashtra. That the money never reached the intended beneficiaries ...
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- Thursday, March 26, 2009, 2:11
- India
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Girls wearing jeans or mini skirts, girls smoking and drinking, Valentine's day, girls talking to guys have all been of late victims of a growing moral police in India. This self-styled Indian Taliban claim their origins in Hindu culture such as Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sena. Their ludicrous motive - to preserve Indian culture!
As I see it, culture is an ...
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- Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 6:18
- India
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The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have dominated the news and rightly so. Once they were over, analysts and writers started publishing opinion articles. Many of them criticize the Indian security establishment while even more criticize the marginalized state of India's Muslims. Let's discuss both of these.
It appears to me that writers dwelling on the backwardness of ...
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- Sunday, November 9, 2008, 19:37
- India
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How is Obama's presidency going to affect US relations with India? Firstly, it was the Democrat administration of Clinton that catapulted relations with India into a strategic partnership. The Republican administration of Bush continued on that foundation with the breakthrough civil nuclear deal that was signed recently. And since India, as one of the ...
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- Saturday, August 30, 2008, 19:39
- India
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Manmohan Singh let go of his Leftist allies and braved a confidence vote to clinch the nuclear deal with US. But now he faces a bigger challenge of convincing Austria, New Zealand and the Netherlands that India is a safe nuclear power. India's future will be bright with nuclear power, but what does future hold for her nuclear arms?
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- Thursday, August 28, 2008, 19:29
- India
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India provides hundreds of rupees in Haj subsidy every year, maintains a Waqf board, pays for Muslim universities (Aligarh Muslim university) and Urdu universities, provides reservation for Muslims in education and employment (Andhra Pradesh state government) apart from spending crores of rupees for Muslim welfare in India. Yet, when Jammu and Kashmir decided to give 99 acres of land ...
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- Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 22:49
- India
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I am not familiar with a
Korean cram school equivalent in India though the
unscrupulous coaching centers come pretty close. That said, the cram school sounds like torture that even Indian kids don't go through and that is saying a lot. When the stakes are so incredibly high, often the end justifies the means - be it by cramming without understanding, ...
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- Thursday, May 29, 2008, 6:31
- India
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It is very sad that the country that boasts of Mahatma Gandhi as the father of the nation and won independence on the policy of non-violence (ahimsa) was not part of the treaty to ban cluster bombs.
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- Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 7:39
- India
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Ah, the good old days before plastic infiltrated the Indian lifestyle!
Do you remember the days when our grandfathers and grandmothers used to always carry a cloth bag when they went out? And brought groceries and other purchases back home in those cloth bags? And kept using them until they tore and could no longer carry things? ...
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- Monday, May 12, 2008, 7:43
- India
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A recent survey by National Geographic reveals that Indians and Brazilians care most for the environment and are the greenest consumers in the world. Not surprisingly, Americans care least and are the worst offenders.
...rates Indian eating habits the best, with 84 per cent eating local vegetables at least once a week.
This is not surprising because most ...
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