Indian
Apr 20 2011, Debanjan Banerjee

Resemblance. Two Bengalis, early forties, writers, won the same international prize, and the name of the books having same key word.

It is Jhumpa Lahiri and Siddhartha Mukherjee. Age, 43 and 40. Both of them awarded the coveted Pulitzer Prize. The...

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Rajeev Jain - The Indian Cinematographer - In His Own Words The DP at Work The Director of Photography interprets the director’s vision and gives a visual...
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Anirudh, Mumbai
The growing Indian middle class and ever growing purchasing power along with most densely populated nation in the world making India most lucrative country for Chinese...
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I am sure you must have gone to some party ,on your friends birthday where all of you got drunk .But how many times have you got stuck in where the waiter says,sorry...
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Incognito, Atlanta
If women continue to insist on wearing burqas and niqabs they’re going to have to put up with profiling and suffer the consequences, whether they like it or not....
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In 1989, during the selection of the Indian team for the tour to Pakistan, the selectors - led by the late Raj Singh Dungarpur - were faced with a tricky question. They...
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Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today flayed tennis star Sania Mirza for her decision to marry Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik, saying “had Sania’s heart...
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It is believed, a joint parliamentary committee will meet soon to finalize a proposal to provide a security blanket over the parliament by covering it with an...
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Some good news for the Indian community of Australia. The country had been mired with incidents of Indians being attacked in what is believed to be ‘Hate Crimes’....
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“India belongs to Indians. That is my view,” he said, adding that he is not bothered about what Sena leaders like Bal Thackerey or Raj Thackerey...
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Victoria’s Chief Police Commissioner, Simon Overland, has revealed police have known for more than two years that crime against Indians was a real issue and some...
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As per reports Paul Rajendran set up a fake Myspace profile and made friends with a 23 year old aspiring lingerie model. They had exchanged a string of emails in which...
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A man has been sentenced in the Ballarat Magistrates Court in Victoria to three months’ jail for attacking an Indian taxi driver in the early hours of this...
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When a farmer from Moradabad, Habib Hussain, goes to Saudi Arabia for a job and feels like returning to India because he is unhappy with the job, he cannot get back...
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Dear Mother, I confess, I your prodigal son, have no shame. I have failed you and turned my back on all you have done for me. No apology can cleanse me of the guilt....
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A UNESCO officer came to India to educated Indian couples on birth control. He gathered about hundred couples in a hall but on looking at the dilated eyes of these men...
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I came across this article about “Native American” artefacts being plundered/ stolen by local white people in the one of the states of US. The head line...
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Churchill said about the US that Americans try every other option before doing what is correct. I suggest that the Indian approach to obedience to rules is something...
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It had to happen one day, for how long the Indians or anyone else would have put up with. Constant Bashing up by the Australian hooligans who have nothing better to do...
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Pardon me, I am just a common Indian citizen and a Delhite one out of the billion. I am as patriotic as all the others are. I am happy for India on Republic and...
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Minister of state for shipping Nabil Ahmed Gabol said India is behind the attack on Sri Lanka\’s cricket team in Lahore on Tuesday, saying the attackers had...
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Many of the Saptakoshi flood displaced from the bordering villages of India, who had entered Nepal seeking relief in the wake of the floods, are still living inside...
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Three Zimbabweans in Botswana including a woman are facing death sentence as they are accused of first degree murder. They are accused of murdering an Indian before...
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Two days after creating ripples by inducting Blairites into his cabinet, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday appointed a loyalist and an Indian-origin...
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In the hunt for more sensational news to increase their TRP’s, Indian news channels have metamorphosed into horror movies. But with a difference; they still like...
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Vikas, solan
Acclaimed lyricist Javed Akhtar says Indian rock music is very superficial, with most songs having archaic lyrics, but he has experimented with words for his son Farhan...
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I had an opportunity to meet an I.A.S officer lately .I would like to share my experience with you here.... When I came to know that I finally got an appointment with...
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Is the mission to Haiti that important? I don’t want to be in a plane that does not work,” a nervous, grey-suited passenger told his colleagues when our Caribair...
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Indian boxer Akhil Kumar gave the country the best Independence Day gift stunning world champion Sergey Vodapoyanov of Russia to enter the quarterfinals of the...
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Six Sri Lankans and an Indian national were jailed for between three and 12 years each on Friday for a violent rampage in London in which they tried to behead a man...
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Vikas, solan
India is not taking any chances with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s security during his visit to Colombo for the SAARC summit early next month.
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INDIA HAS experienced a happy reversal of brain drain in the last five years with as many as 30,000 Indians returning from abroad to work in the country.
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Edimiro Kayowa, from the Kayowa ethnic group, attends the Terra Livre, or Free Earth, indigenous camp in Brasilia, Monday, May 4, 2009. Thousands of Indians from different Brazilian tribes will attend the camp May 4-8.