Petra, Jordan\’s Lost City: One of the Seven Wonders of the World
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Do NRI Families Disintegrate With Distance?
“India is not my home any more. I only visit Nabadwip, my hometown (in West Bengal) to attend the Rash festival, not for religious reasons though,” says Arindam Haldar, a New Zealander of Indian origin, whose parents and siblings are settled in the UK. For many PIOs like Arindam Haldar, who has a strong social life
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The Next Generation of NRIs Don’t Want To Be Called Indians
Is our Indian heritage strong enough to withstand the influences of the West? Can NRI children hang on to their cultural roots when they cross the oceans or do they lose their moorings? Amanda Thomas finds that some do and some don’t. Living in the Middle East as an Indian expat, it is easier to
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Jean Makesh: Why Someone Gave Him 65 Million Dollars!
Jean Makesh is the CEO/Owner of Lantern Of Madison, a premier Assisted Living facility in Madison, Ohio. He designed a state of the art care model called “Svayus” for Dementia and Alzheimer’s clients, which is the first and the only care model that is therapeutic in nature. D&D met the millionaire Occupational Therapist who is
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Finding Kalpana
One day we have to let them go and trust and pray they will be safe and secure and succeed in their own educational journey. Kalpana’s sojourn is same for every teenager who leaves home for college. Our family loves the popular movie Finding Nemo. But while others appreciate its vivid animation and clever script,
Life’s Journeys: More than Destinations
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain I’m reading ‘The Happiness of Pursuit’ by Chris
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Did Gandhi Free India? What Was America’s role in India’s Independence?
Every historian knows that it was not Gandhi who ended European colonialism,it was the USA that did so. Not just India, but practically every colony received independence after 1945, even if it hadn’t been educated yet to govern itself. Historians also know that the moral might that forced imperial Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s hand was
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How Did You Change After You Left India?
“Years passed, and I continued to reconcile myself to fit the mould of contrasting cultures. Canada fed me and clothed me and gave me a roof over my head. I was Canadian, even my passport confirmed it, but my parents and grandparents continued to hold tightly to the remnants of our far away homeland. They
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The Meanest, The Baddest, Real Heroes Bollywood Couldn’t Do Without
They are the real heroes of cinema, the terrible villains who make a story come alive. Without the conflict they create there is no successful film ever made. TII takes a look at the badmash villains of Bollywood we love to hate. A film is incomplete without conflict and crisis. With nothing to resolve, the
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