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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by Sujatha Srinivasan My mother’s battle with paralysis showed me how empathy works as much magic as medicine. Jet-lagged and in shock, I waited on a bright red couch in a small room labelled ‘Counselling’ right off the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at the Christian Medical College & Hospital (CMC) in Vellore. A doctor
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By Pramod Kanakath In more ways than one, two or three, Indonesia is India’s nearest cousin. For an Indian, your trip and time in this country will present many a case of déjà vu in the form of names, vocabulary used in the language (Bahasa Indonesia), monuments, symbols and even customs. In case you are
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By Gary Busby When the editor asked me to put down a few words on this dangerous-looking subject, he said I shouldn\\\’t pull any punches. Now, I\\\’m not someone who punches anyone, least of all my many Indian friends, (although some of them are bankers and hence legitimately deserve a punch, I’m sure we all
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By Rudy Otter During the British Raj in India a new community was spawned by the union of white settler men and Indian women. Called Anglo-Indians, they aligned themselves to the British,and when freedom-hungry Indians mounted their frenzied “Quit India” campaigns, the Anglo-Indians assumed they too had to leave and go “home” to Britain, a
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By Sumit Panwar As India welcomed the world and entered a new era with the Economic Liberalisation in the year 1991, Bollywood saw the beginning of its most dynamic age, one that would make India the largest producer of films in the world. As a new chapter of international collaboration and digitalisation begins, we look
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“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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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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