By Rudy Otter Former Mumbai university graduate Rochelle D’Souza not only enjoyed seeing Western stage shows in her sweltering home city, but she persuaded major Indian publications like The Free Press Journal and Eve’s Weekly to carry her riveting reviews. She left Mumbai 30 years ago for the United States where she has been chalking […]
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by Asha Sharma Satyanand Stokes was the first and only American to serve a prison sentence for India’s cause. He changed the lives of the hill people of Himachal Pradesh by introducing them to apple cultivation that has changed their fortunes. When Samuel Evans Stokes arrived in Simla in 1904 at the age of 21,
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The Amritsar Heritage cum Food Walk makes for a good morning jaunt coupled with a bit of interesting history and heritage, visual architectural delights that have been sprinkled with foodie temptations and together served enthusiastically by a knowledgeable guide. I like to explore a place beyond its obvious tourist attractions. For me the essence of
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By Melanie P. Kumar. Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded largely for his collection of poems, the “Gitanjali.” But, if there was a Booker or something similar in those times, Tagore should surely have been granted this award for his short stories. Recently, non-Bengali speaking viewers were thrilled to have these stories come
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