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A seedling (ankur) is 40 years
...the major turning points in your life? Ankur....the parallel cinema movement. Arth...the women's rights movement.......hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan...built tenements for 50,000 slum dwellers...
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Aur tumhare paas kya hai?
......It is not just a popular put-down in India......one close family member was hit with a variation of this (by a member of the academic tenure-track progress committee in the USA as part of a...
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Dads and daughters
...“I asked my daughter to brush her teeth...no success....reminded her...not so long ago that she would have responded.....She came back....with a list that she had compiled...important events that I...
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Great Wars: Panipat (1761) - Ferozeshah (1845)
..."Volleys of musketry were delivered by us at close quarters, and were returned just as steadily by the enemy.....In all the previous actions....one or two volleys were as much as the Sirkar's (the...
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Indians vs Cowboys (Madison Square Garden)
....a human rights group has obtained summons... from the US Federal Court for the Southern District of New York....open letter addressed to Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri... one of the emcees in...
View ArticleNetwork of Death (yes, but....)
....“No god condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning, no negotiation, with this brand of evil....The only language understood by killers like this is the...
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Geetu n Geeta go for (Oscar) gold
Gayathri "Geetu" Mohandas is a talented actor and director from Kerala (she started acting at the tender age of 5 years opposite superstar Mohanlal). She is married to another hot-shot Malayali...
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The revolution eats her (girl) child
...Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case against J Jayalalithaa, N Sasikalaa, J Elavarasi, VN Sudhakaran....convicted for offences punishable under Section 120(B) of the IPC (criminal conspiracy),...
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Silk Sense
....concept of a historic Silk Road by which camel caravans wend among the mountains and deserts of Central Asia ....re-establishing maritime networks...Chinese Admiral Zheng He...naval armada across...
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"Vanguards of Khorasan"
.....Khorasan historical region....northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan.... established by the Sasanian dynasty, the last Iranian empire before the rise of Islam, in the 3rd...
View ArticleWhy democracy?
....PIO card holders will get lifelong visas, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Saturday to thousands of cheering Indian diaspora at Madison Square Garden here...."Happy?" he asked as the crowd...
View ArticleLions and Christians
....USCIRF@USCIRF Hindu Nationalist Group Seeking to Cleanse Christian Presence From #India Is Not Unlike ISIS, Watchdog Group Warns......David B. Cohen@DavidBCohen1"Watchdog" group likens BJP to ISIS,...
View ArticleAn X-Y feminist
....Kale sends around 2,000 kits each month - containing one mifepristone and four misoprostol tablets - to women who live in nations where abortion is either banned or restricted.....These are two of...
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22 ways to say "Kem Cho Mr PM"
Indians are known the world over for their lack of unity (this is only to be expected, a billion people marching in lock-step is possible only in Communist China, and even there we have our doubts). No...
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255, 261, 264, 350, 381
Five Indians in the Forbes Top-400 list. In one way it is nice, the percentage of the ultimate high earners is in line with the expat Indian community strength in the USA. However there is no one in...
View ArticleA Christmas cake (for Dussehra)
Why not? This is India where all folks of all faiths meet in celebration (around this time the holy days just keep rolling one after the other...without a break, as far as we can see).We are very fond...
View ArticlePashtun power play(s)
....The Pushtuns are divided among the Durrani, Ghilzai, Waziri, Khattak, Afridi, Mohmand, Yusufzai, Shinwari..... each tribe is divided into subtribes.....divided into numerous clans... Zahir Shah...
View ArticleHaider - a spectacular tour de force
Lady V & I just managed to catch Haider and I have to say it was a great adaptation of Hamlet in Kashmir. In Kampala I see Shakespearean adaptation but they aren't even localised instead it's...
View ArticleSun wey bilori akh waaleya
The original The Coke studio version from Meesha Shafi Whatever you may think of the new effort ("desecration of the original" or a vast improvement), it is interesting that coke studio (and Meesha...
View ArticleImran Khan: between a rock and a hard place
For the past one month, Imran Khan has been spending several hours a day on top of a container in the heart of Islamabad, demanding that the elected government must resign (because he says so) and pave...
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