Foreign Art Comes Calling
Anjana Vaswani | "Lately we've seen so many mediocre works drum up immense publicity simply on the strength of the origin of the artist."
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T-20 & Women
Monojit Lahiri | Cricket has some surprising new cheerleaders.
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The Enigma Of Brevity
Deepa Shah | Everything in life is marked or characterized by brevity. Childhood passes, youth is short-lived. Joys don't last; sorrows too fade away.
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Hot Yoga
LIFS | Parents in upstate New York want yoga out of their public schools, protesting that it indoctrinates kids into Hinduism.
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Gurkhas Win Right To Stay In UK
LIFS | Saying that the United Kingdom owed Gurkhas who served in its army a "moral debt of honor," a British judge has made 2,000 Nepalese Gurkhas eligible for British residency.
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Cash For Votes
LIFS | A fifth of India's electorate was paid cash for their votes during the past decade, according to a survey.
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Varanasi Sacred & Profane
Navpreet Amole | The cricket game, like everything else in Varanasi, carries on amidst the funeral chants and the grieving.
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Black Friday, Sweet Deals
Vijaianand Thirnageswaram | Folks, the mother of all deals, Black Friday, is just around the corner.
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The Return
Radhika Meganathan | No self-respecting American would do that. Thank goodness!
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India's Software Industry Reboots
Knowledge@Wharton | The software product segment constitutes under 3 percent of India's $52 billion IT sector. But that may be about to change.
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Reinventing For Bad Times
Achal Mehra | Unbridled capitalism, championed by Wall Street and the Republican Party, has collapsedas decisively as the autocratic socialist Soviet State did 17 years earlier.
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GOD (Awful) Actor
Shekhar Deshpande | It is important to remember that Amitabh is a star, despite the BBC poll of the Millennium that accuses him of being an actor.
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Whose Gold?
Shekhar Hattangadi | A nation bereft of a sporting culture should pause to ask itself why its athletes have always been also-rans.
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Aye Mere Bichhade Chaman
Shekhar Deshpande | Do you pine sometimes for the sounds, the images, the rhythms and the media constructions of your past?
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