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Good Sports: BIG BANG EDUCATION
December 2013 -
Kunal Nayyar, star of The Big Bang Theory, received some financial help during college, so now he is giving back. He has started some scholarships to help others.
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QUOTA of QUOTES
December 2013 -
Quotes from a politician, matchmaker, yoga instructor/ actor, chess champion, CEO of India’s largest e-commerce company, and the National Security Council staffer fired for tweets.
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DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN?
December 2013 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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Satire: The Joys of Living in an Apartment
December 2013 -
While looking for a house in Chicago, my wife and I rented an apartment for a while. Now that we’re in the house, I enjoy the extra space, but I miss several aspects of apartment living.
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Cost-Effective Trip to Mars
December 2013 -
India launched a spacecraft to Mars last month at a cost of only $75 million, cheaper than Indian industrialist Subrata Roy's $128 million double wedding for his sons.
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Author Discount
December 2013 -
Book piracy is commonplace in India. Someone even tried to sell a pirated copy of Maximum City, the acclaimed book about Mumbai, to its author, Suketu Mehta.
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Good Sports: No Quit in This Coach
November 2013 -
Suk Dulai and his wife, Fawn, Sikhs who coach a kids’ baseball team in California, found a message scratched on their truck ("...no Hindus..."). But they are not quitting.
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Good Sports: TCS Sponsors New York City Marathon
November 2013 -
The New York Road Runners announced that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (TCS) has signed an eight-year agreement to be the new title sponsor of the New York City Marathon.
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Good Sports: Responding with Love and Service
November 2013 -
Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Dir. Systems Design at the Earth Institute, assistant prof at Columbia, and a practicing MD, responds to his brutal attack with love and an offer of education.
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QUOTA of QUOTES
November 2013 -
Quotes from the first Indian-American Miss America (and about the racist backlash), Vijay Iyer on winning a MacArthur, the VP of comedy development at Fox, and a new state Representative.
