THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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October 2011 -
I’m in India, but there is a bit of bitter in my contentment. My grandparents are old. When one of them dies, the other will be utterly alone.
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October 2011 -
Kolkata’s once vibrant Jewish community has dwindled from 5000 to less than 40 since the creation of Israel. But, as a visiting New Yorker found, the mostly elderly Jewish residents have managed to keep their heritage alive.
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October 2011 -
In my old Chennai, street vendors and the people they served had a unique symbiotic relationship. Now brick-and-mortar stores there and in the U.S. are tumbling down. Internet shopping may include new mom-and-pop stores, but where is the personal connection?
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October 2011 -
Dr. Rafi Ahmed launched the Emory Vaccine Center, turned it into a research giant that has received over 250 million dollars in research funding during the past 15 years, and has now partnered with a research center in Delhi.
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October 2011 -
Not long ago, he had a nice job with no worries and was looking forward to the day when he’d make a down payment on a spacious townhouse in a lively, attractive neighborhood. And now, unbelievably, he was close to being homeless.
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October 2011 -
Officers with machine guns rushed into the plane, ran down the aisle and yelled for ...us to get up. We were handcuffed, pushed off the plane, ... thrown into the back of police cars. No one told us what we did to warrant such treatment. ... [I]t was because of the color of our skin.
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October 2011 -
Driving from Rishikesh to Badrinath one espies majestic landscapes,
mythology, herds of wild asses and more.
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September 2011 -
A slum -- often the running, supporting legs of a city, filled with people who make other, richer people’s lives easier. … And for all that it is and can be, Bapu Dham continues to reveal its points of light, its sharpened edges, its quickened pulse.
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September 2011 -
In an economy where jobs are hard to come by, dating becomes a deft balancing act between work and working the social scene. Khabar explores how South Asians in North America are hooking up in the era of dating websites, networking, and speed-dating.
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September 2011 -
India’s top cop continues to make her mark in public life through her noble emphasis on selfless service—now taking on corruption, the country’s Achilles’ heel.
