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NRI Returning Back To Home
The land of opportunity or God’s own country as one may like to call it seem to undergo a new trend as the entire Diaspora takes notice of this U-turn, wherein the globally settled Indians better known as the NRIs are heading back to their …
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Indians In Hollywood
The term crossover cinema never crossed our minds, till very recently. Sixties and the Seventies were the years of The Formula. Hindi cinema thrust its viewers into arrogant colours, dumdar dialogues, around-the-tree romance and a surfeit of “dishoom-dishoom”. Things were exciting enough at home. The …
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How to Raise a Religious Child
Throughout much of India, a baby’s birth is celebrated with rites of welcome and blessing–songs, drums, happy distribution of sweets, auspicious unguents, gifts for infant and mother, preparation of horoscopes, and inscriptions in the genealogist’s record books. In general, children are deeply desired and welcomed, …
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Magical Bundi – Painted Palaces
THE rivalry between the twin cities of Bundi and Kota dates back to ancient times. As one moves from Bundi to Kota, the feeling that Bundi is suffering from a kind of inferiority complex becomes stronger. Bundi is older and more picturesque than Kota, its …
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Nagpur – place full of fusion and not confusion
What should we call it Orange city or Green city? Anyway what’s there in the name said Shakespeare!!! Nagpur city was founded in the early 18th century by Bhakt Buland, a Gond prince of the kingdom of Deogad in the Chhindwara district. Than passed on …
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Lonely at the Top – Lata Mangeshkar
The realm of music remains incomplete without the mention of the nightingale of India-Lata Mangeshkar. Born on September 28, 1929 in Indore, Lata Mangeshkar has lent her superlative voice to Indian popular and light music having sung film songs, ghazals, bhajans and pop. Till recently …
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Remembering Mahatma Gandhiji
What is Gandhian philosophy? It is the religious and social ideas adopted and developed by Gandhi, first during his period in South Africa from 1893 to 1914, and later of course in India. These ideas have been further developed by later “Gandhians”, most notably, in …
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Diwali Sweets
Bombay Halwa Preparation Time: 15 minutes, Cooking Time: 30 minutes, Serves / Makes: 12 Ingredients: Sabudana 1/3 cup White Flour 1/3 cup Corn flour 2/3 cup Sugar 4 cups Ghee 1 cup Lemon 1 med Cardamom powder 2 …
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