Tag: India
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Gandhi, Bush, and the Bomb
Check this out if you want to see some irony at work…great article… cd Gandhi, Bush, and the Bomb by Lawrence S. Wittner On February 24, at a press briefing,…
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India's feisty untouchable woman
Girija Devi is a one-woman social reform campaign for the Musahar community. I am so impressed with people who don’t listen to those little voices that tell us, “You can’t…
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Never mind Bird Flu…here is Chikungunya!
Sure, it may eventually pass…but this sounds like total hell…. cd TODAYonline The toll in the Indian Ocean island of Reunion from a mosquito-borne virus that causes crippling pain in…
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The coconut temple courier service
15,000 coconuts a day and up to 100,000 on festival days!! Amazing what people can do when they make it a priority. How does a temple in India make sure…
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U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia – Yahoo! News
A pirates life for me…I had a friend that wanted to get that tattooed on her once…I wonder if she was aboard? cd U.S. Navy Seizes Pirate Ship Off Somalia…
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Chilly welcome for Indian 'ghost'
An Indian man is being refused entry to his house – because his family say he is a spirit come back to haunt them. Raju Raghuvanshi was greeted with cries…
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German IT firm bans office complaining
They’ve fired three “complainers” so far. “Germany is a country of complainers,” says Thomas Kuwatsch. “Some people complain about everything, the weather, the train is late, the coffee is bad…
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Beyond the Headlines: Top ten list of under-reported stories in 2005
The stories that MSF identifies accounted for EIGHT out of 14,529 minutes coverage on the top three networks’ nightly newscasts for 2005! The immense human toll caused by conflicts in…
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Cash award for 50-year jail error
By far the saddest line in this story is, “Even his family had forgotten about him.” An Indian man who spent more than 50 years in jail without trial has…
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Buddhist master to be mummified
Hmmm, doesn’t seem like a very Buddhist thing to do. But I am learning that there are all sorts of Buddhists… Buddhist monks in the northern Indian state of Himachal…
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Ants eat away woman's eye in hospital
This is probably a big part of the reason I don’t like hospitals…can you imagine lying there screaming while ants ate your eyes? In the hospital???? KOLKATA, India (Reuters) –…
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Hi-tech workers make 'curry rock' on H1Bees
(A new musical genre is spawned. Tracks are in English, Hindi, and Tamil. I listened to a clip and it was, er… bouncy. The BBC story compares their sound to…
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ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005101325232)
(the leaders of Pakistan and India are using the poor response to Hurricane Katrina in an effort to explain why this relief is moving so slow…cd) ZAMAN DAILY NEWSPAPER (2005101325232)…
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Reuters AlertNet – Post-tsunami chaos wastes aid
(The first rule in disaster relief is to ASK what people want and need. It is amazing how rarely this rule is followed. People do things like send their fuzzy…
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India's rent-a-guest wedding agents
(submitted by KG) BBC NEWS | South Asia | India’s rent-a-guest wedding agents India’s rent-a-guest wedding agents Indian couple getting married An agency has been set up in the Indian…
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Turning Shit to Shinola
(For anyone who doesn’t understand why this image is attached to this story, rent the movie the jerk and pay attention to Nevins Dad’s advice when he leaves home…cd) CHICAGO…
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Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola
(I find this story doubly odd in the new coke commercials I have to watch every time I pay to see a movie…cd) Everything Gets Worse With Coca-Cola D. Rajeev…
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Gates Foundation To Help India's Red-Light Workers – Forbes.com
Gates Foundation To Help India’s Red-Light Workers Greg Levine, 08.19.05, 12:31 PM ET NEW YORK – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building a bridge from the postmodern information…
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