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Why we must be ashamed to be Indians.
I attended a gathering in Washington DC a few months ago, the occasion being the celebration of the 145th anniversary of the arrival of ‘indentured’ laborers from India to Trinidad and Tobago [T&T]. I...
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Representatives of the Romanian Gypsy community stand around the statue of Mihail Kogalniceanu, Romania’s Premier in 1856, in Bucharest Romania, Friday Feb. 20 2009. Romania’s Gypsy community and activists celebrated 153 years since they were freed...
