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Slumdog Redux
Nilanjana Bhowmick | Life can be cruel for celebrated slum children after the music stops.
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Inner-City Yoga
Mona Mohan | Shake hard and harder…. Thrust and move.… Stick it in now. Com’on faster and faster….
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Our Mind Blocks Keep Us Struggling
Monojit Lahiri | I, for one, make quite a hash of Appan Tampuram Kallathil Thiruvattukkal Ezuttacan Pappachan or Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas and Parthasarathy Bhattacharya myself! But that is my prerogative, as an Indian. Now if I were a Caucasian American, that would be a different matter altogether!
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Only Kebabs!
Golden Reejsinghani | With the arrival of summer, are you ready to haul out those
outdoor grills for your favorite Indian barbecue?
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Reclaiming My Roots
Salma Dasgupta | I’m wearing my Indianness again like
a rediscovered favorite piece of clothing
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Henna Sausages
LIFS | A British company has introduced a line of sausages branded in henna patterns created with edible ink.
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Get A Simpler Name
LIFS | It would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here
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Bedazzled in Bali
Dipali Pradhan | Our writer heads to Bali to enjoy the beaches and the verdant rice fields, but finds herself bewitched by the religion of this little island.
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Prosecute Bush and Cheney for War Crimes
Achal Mehra | If, as seems likely, the trail leads to former Pres. George W Bush and former Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, they should be indicted and tried for war crimes.
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Letters
LIFS | It’s such a relief to see Little India focus on realistic issues affecting the Indian American community.
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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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In Good Company?
Meghna Pant | Indian American companies are scrambling to cope with
the deepest recession in a half century.
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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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India's 9/11?
Shekhar Deshpande | We need to resist facile parallels between the events in Mumbai and 9/11.
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