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Featured Anglo-Indians: Are They Fading into the History of India?Anglo-Indians and JazzThe Anglo-Indian IdentityFading Out and the Future
They are not quite Indian, but have strong cultural ties to the country they call home. They're not quite British, but have a family tree that finds itself rooted in Europe, and their native tongue is English. Will this unique cultural identity of the Anglo-Indians one day be lost to the mainstream? Will they be...
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Featured Indian Music.and all that Jazz
Indian music conjures thoughts of classical strains in Hollywood montages or Bollywood kitsch, but Jazz's history has as much to do with New Delhi as New Orleans. Jazz is a word that means different things to different people. Before it became a word used by one to trail off in a conversation they are rapidly losing interest in, it was actually a form of music. Not just any form of music, but the kind of music...
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Featured Gandhi's 150th Anniversary: How America Embraced the MahatmaDiscovering GandhiUnderstanding nonviolenceSimplicity and harmonyWhat Gregg brought to America
How a philosopher, friend and follower of Gandhi helped translate the Mahatma's ideas to Americans, helping them embrace his way of life October this year marks Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birthday. One of the 20th century's most iconic figures, Gandhi's legacy defines how many...
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Featured India's Seed Warrior and His Mission to Save Rice
India's Seed Warrior, Debal Deb is on a mission to save the country's rice biodiversity. The ecologist's sustained effort has created a massive seed bank, housing more than 1,410 endangered rice varieties. Debal Deb is known as the Seed Warrior, having spent the past two decades collecting and preserving India's increasingly rare indigenous rice species. The ecologist's...
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Featured Happiness Is a Choice.Based on Vested Economic InterestsOver to BhutanChoice at every level of society
Happiness is a choice seems to be the general consensus, but vested economic interests play a bigger role in your personal happiness than you know Our knowledge about what it is that people need to feel happy and satisfied with in their lives keeps growing, yet the extent to which people actually feel happy and satisfied with their lives has...
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Featured PM's Tamil Nadu Visit Backlash Countered by #DontGoBackModi Trend
With #DontGoBackModi trending on social media following the PM's Tamil Nadu visit backlash, BJP is trying to turn things around to win over the state Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a page out of Shashi Tharoor's book over the weekend and taught the country a new word on Twitter. The PM, who was at a retreat in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, with Chinese President Xi...
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Featured Can the Indian Economy Escape Another Recession?
While unquestionably in a slowdown phase, owing to a demand crunch, can the Indian economy escape the looming threat of a recession, like it did in 2008? Since the great crash of 2008, not much has changed. Economies around the world - in order to avoid collapse - have played every available trick in the book to convince consumers that the future was rosy. This played well until the future arrived...
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Featured Is Elon Musk's Starship Enterprise a Moral Catastrophe?Planetary protectionOther moral issues
SpaceX's Starship project may be a bold step in space exploration, but will these interplanetary journeys to Mars and beyond account for moral repercussions? Elon Musk, founder of private space-faring company SpaceX, recently unveiled his new Starship craft. Amazingly, it is designed to carry up to 100 crew members on interplanetary journeys...
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Featured The Save Aarey Activists-Who Are They, Really?The Save Aarey movement was never against the metro. It was against building the carshed at Aarey.
The Save Aarey activists are neither paid puppets with a hidden agenda nor overly woke anarchists. It has always been a citizen's movement, and at the heart of it are people who have jobs to do, bills to pay, and are just as worried that this city will completely implode one day. They detained...
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Featured India's Extraordinary Growth Has Lessons for Global Leaders
As one of the world's fastest-growing major economies, India's has been a dramatic rise, commanding attention on the global stage. With structural reforms, a growing young middle-class, and adoption of advanced technologies, the stage is set for India to announce itself as major world economic power in the next decade-and-a-half, with the potential to reach $10 trillion. If...
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