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Desi TV Duniya
Siddesh Pai – The New Dancing Queen Reality dance show Dancing ke Superstars on Zee TV is certainly getting the best dancing talent pitted against one another. After all, each of these dancers is a star in his or her own right, considering they have …
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Books We’re Reading
Author by Satya Kalra My Questions and God’s Answers: Guide to Eternal Happiness Peace Anandam Bhagavad Gita By Satya Kalra The book is for anyone who is facing challenges in life due to health, finances, relationships, business or emotions. This robs our happiness and peace and …
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GOPIO Atlanta Chapter Launched
By Mahadev Desai and Viren Mayani Pictures by Dev Ghosh A diverse cross-section of Atlanta’s prominent Indian-American Associations, professionals, academics and community activists; attended the historic, memorable and joyous inauguration of GOPIO-Atlanta (Global Organization of People of Indian Origin), with its first Awards Gala & …
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Editorial May 2011
May 2011 Dear Readers, On behalf of the entire Desh-Videsh team, I would like to wish everyone a Happy, and more importantly, a Healthy New Year. As a lifelong admirer of Gandhiji, I feel very proud to know that his philosophy recently termed “Gandhigiri” is …
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Immigration Q & A May 2011
Author by Edward Boreth A company is sponsoring me for an H1-B visa, but the attorney has told me I cannot start work until the first of October. Why is that? Each year Congress permits 65,000 new H1-B visas to be granted. Additionally, USCIS accepts …
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I went to sleep at the…zzz
Author by Shruti Patel When initially brain-storming for this article, I started with ideas about fitness and eating well. I then came across an epidemic that deserves to be acknowledged: sleep deprivation. In this context, an epidemic is simply a factor that affects many people …
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Book Review – Indian-American’s book on cancer wins the Pulitzer
Author by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of …
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Gandhi Giri-Resurrected
The world is full of revolts, public outrages and wars. Civil uprisings sweep across many countries. The virus of revolution stemmed in Yemen and in no time took most of the Middle East in its grip. India is no exception. Nonetheless, her approach is exemplary. …
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Global Gurudev
An ode to the Nobel laureate, poet, dramatist, philosopher, educationist, composer and painter Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore – by Lovejeet Alexander Calcutta-born philosopher-poet-painter Rabindranath Tagore was one of the best known international figures of the intellectual world in the initial decades of the 20th century. Although …
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