THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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July 2011 -
Baba Ramdev’s political theater may have roused millions of Indians, but can his antics move the nation ahead in the all-important fight against corruption?
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July 2011 -
“They are trying to keep me destabilized,” notes activist Arundhati Roy, who is also a best-selling author of polemical nonfiction and a Booker Prize-winning novel. Here she talks about her political activism in India, why she no longer condemns violent resistance—and why it doesn't matter if she never writes a second novel.
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July 2011 -
Why should he be happy? Does he not understand that to be happy was like building a big machine? Every nut and every bolt needs to be built by chiseling on hard steel. If everything is perfect—then, and only then—you can be happy. How could he be so happy without any rhyme or reason?
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June 2011 -
Gandhi is a Rorschach figure. Where I might see his brahmacharya vow as disciplined celibacy, Lelyveld considers it sublimation and allocates a chapter to what he calls Gandhi’s platonic relationship with Hermann Kallenbach.
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June 2011 -
In our interview, Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the New York Times, says what he really set out to do was to examine the evolution of Gandhi the social visionary, a “complicated figure” who continued to “struggle with self and doubt until his last days,” and the process of how the man became a Mahatma.
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June 2011 -
DR. ANUPAM SRIVASTAVA and DR. SEEMA GAHLAUT are Assistant Directors of the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security and co-direct the Center’s Asia Program. They weigh in on the many questions surrounding the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as its implications for the United States, Pakistan and India.
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June 2011 -
I am surprised to see the young cashier ask an old lady if she would like the bottles she had just bought un-sealed. She does, and he goes through her basket, opening bottles of jam, pickles, antacids and ketchup, and putting the lids back on again, gently.
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June 2011 -
Today’s young desis have several acronyms to describe their fellow immigrants—ABCD (American-Born Confused Desi), FOB (Fresh off the Boat), Coconut Generation (brown on the outside, white inside), and so on. I’m wondering if they have bestowed any acronym on my generation that came to the United States during the sixties and seventies.
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June 2011 -
Egyptians have become an inspiration to the entire world with their extraordinary stride towards freedom from a tyrannical regime. One of the world’s oldest civilizations, Egypt is also home to a sophisticated culture, with a deep rooted love of food. This is a salute to the rise of the New Egypt, through a celebration of their rich cuisine.
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June 2011 -
I am in one of China’s oldest cities. Called Chang’an(Eternal Peace) in ancient times, Xian was once the starting point of the fabled Silk Road and home to thirteen dynasties. Tourists come to Xian mainly to see the terracotta warriors—Emperor Qin’s army, created for his afterlife.
