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A Century Of Satyagraha and the dual significance of 9/11
October 2006 - September 11th is the date of two globally important anniversaries; one of hope and one of horror. On 9/11 one hundred years ago Mahatma Gandhi founded a movement known as "Satyagraha," .........

Letter from India
October 2006 - Of Memsahibs and Multitasking Musing on the relative merits of hired help versus do-it-yourself; in other words, the Indian versus the American way.

Fiction: The Banker and the Beggar
October 2006 - Mehnaz had an early morning meeting that Wednesday. Normally she caught the 8 a.m. FS bus going to San Francisco and by that hour the sun's rays were embracing the sky ..........

Diwali special: Kali Puja and Khichuri
October 2006 - Kali Puja and khichuri are as much to the quintessential Bengali bhadralok as Diwali and dry fruit barfis are to the rest of India. The puja takes place on the night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Kartik........

Celebrating Diwali in Bollywood
October 2006 - The festival of lights is celebrated by the stars who light up the silver screen with as much gusto as Indians living anywhere. The Khans – ShahRukh, Salman, Amir and Saif – are megastars with a secular outlook...........

Opinion--The Anxiety over Assimilation
September 2006 - "Kinder statt Inder" is a pithy German slogan that sums up a graying Europe's attitude towards immigration. It means: "Children instead of Indians." America is different........

RECIPES Zestful Chutneys
September 2006 - A complete Indian meal has four elements: a bread and/or rice, a vegetable dish, a dal (lentil-based dish), and a chutney. If you are in a hurry, the simplest meal might be just some rice or bread and a chutney

Opinion: Of Questionable Character
September 2006 - Kenneth Lay, dead of a heart attack several weeks ago. It must say something about the man that within a couple of hours of his death—even in a time of Bombay train blasts and Middle-East horror

Travel--Of People and Places
September 2006 - Who would have thought of running into a dog from Hampi (South India) with her owner, a "global" citizen? on treks in South America..........

Letter from India--How Things Were
September 2006 - The Shatabdi train meanders through the familiar landscape of Dehra Dun. The city I grew up in, the city I was so eager to leave. The city I have held dear ever since my escape.........

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