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Kathmandu's Tourist Hub Open For Business, But Is Anyone Buying?
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I am an Indian woman who prides herself on being a modern, secular, well-read person. My female friends, like me, are 30-somethings, mostly urban upper/middle class where women enjoy comparatively...
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Why We Need To Take Food Allergies Seriously
Let's imagine this for a moment: You are up in the mountains vacationing in a picturesque resort. Outside your windows, snow-covered peaks are glistening in the hint of a morning sun. There is a knock...
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Early morning, you open your email and out pops yet another rejection from a publisher you had your heart on. You fume, you wither, you get depressed and angry and want to hit someone. Everyone is...
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Social media is an integral part of how we interact with our friends and communities. Even governments, including ours, are starting to take serious notice and are incorporating social media into their...
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11 Old Delhi Eateries You Must Not Miss This Ramzan
In the holy month of Ramzan, Muslims from all over the world fast from dawn to dusk to come closer to God. Abstaining from food and drink during the day, the faithful Muslim may eat two meals a day -...
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'Nosferatu': Revisiting A Masterwork Of Gothic Horror
Nosferatu, also known as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, is a 1922 silent Gothic horror film directed by the legendary German filmmaker F. W. Murnau. Murnau--a prominent figure in the German...
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Once upon a time, the phenomenon named Mark Z, who paid more attention to doing things outside the classroom than inside one at an Ivy-League School, came up with an idea called Facebook. The term...
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Why India Was The BBC's Real Target On June 24, Not Altaf Hussain
Altaf Hussain and the MQM just cannot catch a break. Hussain's threats to the army have made him a national villain, while the party leaders spend their days defending his slurred speeches. If Britain...
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Designs On Dance: The Evolving Costumes Of Bharatanatyam
Dance is as much about space, structure, music, drama, colour and costume and design aesthetics as it is about the act of dancing. There is no performance art that brings in fluidity, grace, drama and...
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Surviving Emergency: Midnight Knocks And Days On The Run
It was a set drill. A midnight knock followed by an arrest and then a transfer to prison. The Emergency had arrived, and India was no longer a free nation that upheld rule of law. On 25 June 1975, then...
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Why People With Disabilities Need Opportunities, Not Charity
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They are talented, clever and far from done. Unfortunately, a mix of bad luck and weak scripts has put them out of the box-office race for some time now. But in the ever-so-unpredictable world of...
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"Have you changed after your father's death and do you still miss him?" Perfectly innocuously intended, yet the question left me bewildered, compelling me to revisit memories that we knowingly...
View ArticleFaces Of The Bangladeshi Economy
I live in New York for educational purposes; however unlike many who has been bestowed such privilege, I try to return to my hometown - Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, every chance I get. That is...
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People outside India find my name very hard to pronounce. Radhika, you think. It's a simple enough name. As simple as Sarah, much simpler to the Indian diction than Elizabeth. But when it's not the...
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Curd Vs. Yogurt: What's the Difference Anyway?
For the longest time I confused curd or dahi with yogurt. I was always told that curd and yogurt were just different names for the same thing. Some said that curd is what we call it in India and yogurt...
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Now On Tap: Why You Shouldn't Leak Too Much To Google's Latest Feature
Google's latest offering to the world, Now on Tap, promises to be a game changer for smartphone users. A seemingly simple app that practically "reads" all that is there on your screen and provides more...
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