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Not Required Indians?
Shekhar Hattangadi | Without an Indian passport you can no longer represent your ancestral homeland in international sports events. A look at what this latest policy diktat from the Indian government means for 20 million overseas Indians worldwide
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A Million Slumdogs Now
Shekhar Deshpande | Slumdog Millionaire is a brilliant, vile film that puts the pornography of poverty at the center of its universe.
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Why Aren’t The Oscars India-friendly??
Monojit Lahiri | Without an Indian passport you can no longer represent your ancestral homeland in international sports events.
A look at what this latest policy diktat from the Indian Government means for 20 million overseas Indians worldwide
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Retirement: An Iconic Struggle
Ajay Vishwanathan | I watched with young and startled eyes as my grandfather stormed into my house, gave my quiet father a mouthful and stormed away. It was the first time I witnessed a big deal being made about retirement.
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Original Fakes
LIFS | S.H. Raza, one of India’s leading painters, was “stupefied and outraged” to discover that several paintings at an exhibition of his painting, which he was inaugurating, were fakes.
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The Indian Sexual Appetite
LIFS | A nationwide survey has found that the frequency with which Indians have sex has declined from an average of 14 times a month in 1996 to 12.
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Leaning Minar Of Qutab
LIFS | A weak foundation and water seepage is endangering the legendary Qutab Minar, which has tilted 25 inches to the southwest.
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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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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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Slime Fest
Achal Mehra | The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrating overseas Indians worldwide has become a boondoggle and a self-aggrandizing jamboree for the politically connected.
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Turning the Other Cheek
Shekhar Hattangadi | Our Mumbai columnist ponders on the wages of inaction against yet another terrorist attack on India's most vibrant city.
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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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India's 9/11?
Shekhar Deshpande | We need to resist facile parallels between the events in Mumbai and 9/11.
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The Fading American Dream
Meghna Pant | The American dream is souring for tens of thousands of Indians in the financial sector.
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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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