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Sep 27 2009, K.R.RAVI

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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