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US-Based Sikhs Take A Stand Against Racist Bullying
As an immigrant and as a mother I spent many sleepless nights worrying about bullies before my son started pre-school. I steeled myself to prepare him for mean kids. I acted out scenarios in which I...
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The Ultimate India Bucket List For Travellers (Part 1)
By Harsh Sonawala We all know India is a country of many facets, faces, colours and cultures, and trying to pin down top experiences is virtually impossible. That said, we're not afraid of a challenge....
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Podcast: My BIG Data is BIGger Than Yours, Damn Right!
The problem with Big Data IT terminologies meet erotica in this short clip from Our Last Week's new episode, where Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur take a stand against Big Data. But, the bigger...
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'The Prime Minister Himself Has Been The Worst Victim Of Ideological...
The World Bank has upped India's ranking in the Ease of Doing Business by twelve positions. Last month, the World Economic Forum had similarly upgraded India. Even though the push up numerically is...
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How Have Internet Shutdowns Impacted Your Life?
With the advent of the internet, the global communications landscape has undergone a number of dramatic changes. Not only has the internet made communications technology more universal and affordable,...
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What It's Like To Be The 'Wrong' Kind Of Indian
I grew up in different parts of India, hearing different languages, breathing different cultures, befriending different people. The defence campuses we lived in were mini Indias, a potpourri of North...
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Desire is Beautiful, Desire is Divine
The energy called desire has been condemned for centuries. Almost all the so-called saints have been against it, because desire is life and they were all life-negative. Desire is the very source of all...
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'Digital India Doesn't Mean A Damn Thing': A Conversation With Sam Pitroda
If you were born after 1985 chances are you don't know much about Sam Pitroda. And that got him writing a tale of such improbable highs and lows it's hard to believe he actually lived it. At 73, the...
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'Titli': A Riveting Cinematic Experience
Titli, co-written and directed by debutant filmmaker Kanu Behl, premiered at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. Co-produced by Dibakar Banerjee and Aditya Chopra, the movie...
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'You Don't Have To Disappear To Prove You Were There': Celebrating The 'F' Word
Too many women I know today measure their self-worth by the space between their thighs. "Oh I want to be thin... I need a man, yaar." I don't really think this is about men. It's about other women....
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People Are Dying So Why Are We Crowdfunding Foreign Trips And Fancy Bikes?
Sonia is watching her screen like a hawk. The amount on display is changing by the hour. It's $6000 shy of fulfilling her wish of going to Antarctica on a privately led expedition to purportedly learn...
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Religion Unites Us, Fundamentalism Divides Us
On 1 January, 1915, the Norfolk Chronicle published a letter written during the First World War by a young British soldier of the Essex Regiment. "Our trenches are only 30-40 yards away from the...
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The World's Best Bling: 21 Amazing Jewels (Part 1)
The world of precious gemstones is so enchanting that once you get drawn into it, the pull and wonder only grows more intense. Which is why, during a vacation in the US, I succumbed to the urge to head...
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Rites Over Reason: Why Indian Society Must Reconnect With The Core Values Of...
Alain de Botton, one of the best known intellectuals of Britain, suggests that in the modern world culture should take precedence over religion. Ultimately, he prescribes that the former should replace...
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Podcast: The Innovative Recipes and Exotic Ingredients of Upvas Food
Fasting - whether the reasons are medical, spiritual or even political - goes back centuries. Some fasts are absolute, where you can't eat, sometimes even drink, anything, while some type of fasts...
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Pakistan's Ridiculous Obsession With Imran Khan's Divorce
"Hum bewafa hargiz na thay, par hum wafa kar na sake." This Kishore Kumar song was not playing on a golden oldies radio show but on a news channel as the soundtrack to a story about the divorce of...
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Raghuram Rajan's Economic Case For Tolerance: Are The Development-Crazy...
It's easy to dismiss writers, intellectuals, film makers, scientists and historians who protest intolerance as "anti-national", "anti-Hindu" or even "jihadis". However, when the Governor of the Reserve...
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The Role of Family In Cultivating Compassion
Compassion is our inherent nature and a quality of our minds. It simultaneously aims towards the true happiness that is inherent in all of us and it wishes to end confusion for everyone, thus enabling...
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Why Modi Shouldn't Let His Bhakts Do All The Talking
Ten days after the Dadri murder, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally broke his silence with a few weak ineffectual statements calling for unity, it was a case of too little, too late for me. Modi...
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