May 15, 2013By A Staff Reporter -
Indian celebrities associate themselves with all kinds of luxury cars, as owning such vehicles makes them stand out from the crowd. India’s top-notch personalities have very high tastes when it comes to owning four-wheel machines.
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May 14, 2013By Keerthika M. Subramanian and Pratik Chougule .
Indian Americans joined the Democratic Party nearly half a century ago, and show no signs of leaving. Their support has remained steady even as the Democratic Party of 1965 — whose immigration reform efforts opened the door to Indian emigrants — has evolved into a party inimical to the values and i
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Apr 30, 2013By Rachell Zoll, Associated Press .
It looked like the backlash was starting even before the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were identified as Muslim. Hours after the explosions, a Bangladeshi man told police he was dubbed an “Arab” and beaten in New York.
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Apr 10, 2013By A Staff Reporter -
For those who know cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar on and off the field would know that the word “drive” does not apply to him in cricket alone. On the field, he loves driving the ball to square, cover, off, on or straight; off the field he is passionate about driving cars.
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Feb 11, 2013By Siddharth Sehgal, Special to India-West .
I read a story a few years ago about a big poisonous snake that lived in a village a long time ago. It took up a hole under a tree which stood at the village border as its residence.
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Feb 11, 2013By Jyoti Bachani, Special to India-West .
Last year, I spent nine months in India as a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar. Mentoring some young ladies in New Delhi, I learned that their families had forbidden them from using public transport because it was too dangerous to do so.
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Dec 27, 2012By Ashfaque Swapan, Staff Reporter -
The sun-baked Southern California seaside town of Encinitas is almost on the other side of the world from Varanasi. That daunting distance between the California town he made his home and the city of his birth is a perfect metaphor for the extraordinary distance traversed by Ravi Shankar.
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Nov 29, 2012By Lalit J. Kha, Press Trust of India
India has renewed its bid to establish a consulate in the city of Seattle — the home of Boeing and Microsoft — now that its latest diplomatic post in Atlanta is operational.
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Sep 24, 2012By Zaineb Mohammed, New America Media .
At a time when U.S. Muslims and mosques are increasingly under attack, some Muslim Americans say Obama has not taken a strong enough stance against Islamophobia.
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Sep 24, 2012By Ashfaque Swapan, Staff Reporter -
This Sept. 11, Americans irrespective of race, gender and ethnic origin paid homage to the victims of the horrendous terror attacks of 2001.
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Sep 14, 2012By Andrew Lam, Editor, New America Media .
Nakoula/Bacile is currently in hiding and may in fact be fictitious. Much evidence now points to him as a Egyptian Coptic Christian, who allegedly holds grudges against Islam.
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Aug 14, 2012By R. M. Vijayakar, Special to India-West
On the 65th anniversary of India’s Independence, let us look back at the way Bollywood films have reflected patriotism — from the freedom struggle to the issues that are more pertinent today, like terrorism.
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