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    Indian Dhun: Glossary Of Indian Musical Terms

    This is forwarded by Gyani Jarnail Singh Arshi ji. There is much more at the site: http://indiandhun.com/indian-musical-terms.html A sampler for now. Akar : The singing of melody using the vowel sound aa. It can be sung with rhythm as improvisation or without rhythm in alap form...
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    Indian Americans Pioneering Cancer Research From Herbal Extracts

    Curcumin, pepper, ginger, garlic have found their way into the labs of premier universities across the United States with Indian American scientists beginning to test natural products for treatment of cancer. “Almost every group is thinking and conducting animal and clinical trials from...
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    Nature Indian Bison To Roam Bandhavgarh Reserve Again, After A Decade

    Five gaurs (Indian bison) have been shifted from the Kanha Tiger Reserve to Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, where these herbivores had become extinct a decade ago. “We have brought five gaurs - three male and two female - from Kanha in the first phase of the translocation,” Bandhavgarh Reserve’s...
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    USA WSO Protests Visa For Indian Politician With Tainted Human Rights Record

    WSO Protests Visa for Indian Politician With Tainted Human Rights Record OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 17, 2011) - The World Sikh Organization of Canada has written a letter of protest to Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney over government plans to host an Indian politician who was...
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    India Indian Republic Young Enough To Try Out More States

    Beyond Telengana The Indian republic is young enough to try out more states POLITICS AND PLAY: RAMACHANDRA GUHA The United States of America has less than half as many citizens as the republic of India, yet almost twice as many states. The map of that country has been drawn and redrawn very...
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    Malaysia Malaysia Book Causes Rift Over Indian Caste System

    KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A high school text book that highlights multiethnic Malaysia's racial harmony has riled the main ethnic Indian party, which wants it banned because it refers to the Hindu caste system, an official said Monday. The Malaysian Indian Congress, which is part of the...
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    Indian Secularism And The Sikhs

    Placed below is the main text of the presentation, a summary of which was read at the UN Human Rights Council, through the courtesy of the Interfaith International on June 12, 2008 at Geneva. It is reproduced here, with thanks, from blog of Gurtej Singh: Editor 1. I am grateful to this assembly...
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    12 Indian Foods That Cut Fat

    12 Indian foods that cut fat EISHA SARKAR (Mumbai Mirror) , Dec 20, 2010, 12.00am IST You don't have to acquire a taste for olive oil, seaweed or soya to maintain a low-fat, healthy diet. Indian cuisine can be healthy too, if it's cooked with oil and ingredients that take care of your heart...
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    India True Face Of Indian Journalists

    http://www.fullhyderabad.com/hyderabad-news/journalism-or-lobbying-barkha-dutt-and-nira-radia-transcripts-2572 Barkha Dutt And Nira Radia Transcript 19th Nov, 2010: The recent unearthing of transcripts of conversations between Barkha Dutt, group editor of NDTV, and Nira Radia, a powerful...
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    General Indian Envoy Insulted, Asked To Remove Turban

    Texas: After Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar was subjected to a pat-down at an airport in the USA, another Indian envoy has been humiliated in America. India's permanent representative at the United Nations, Hardeep Puri, was frisked and asked to remove his turban. Puri, a Sikh, was...
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    India Indian Police System Needs Reforming: Alok Mukherjee

    Indian police system needs reforming: Alok Mukherjee Toronto, Dec 5 (IANS) Toronto Police Board chairman Alok Mukherjee, the highest-ranking public servant of Indian origin in Canada, wants India to quickly roll back its colonial-style policing system for its own good. Policing in India is...
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    India India's Leadership Unknown To Almost Half The World: Survey

    http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-indias-leadership-unknown-to-almost-half-the-world-finds-survey/20101202.htm More than half of the people in the former Soviet Union, the Americas and Europe don't have an opinion about India's leadership, it said, adding that this may be...
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    American Parents VS Indian Parents

    YouTube - American parents VS Indian Parents Rajneesh Madhok
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    India Indian Power And The United Nations

    Indian Power and the United Nations World Politics Review Richard Gowan - 15 Nov 2010 President Barack Obama won fans in New Delhi last week with his call for India to take a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. But while the president explicitly endorsed India as an "emerged"...
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    Ethnicity, Religion, Military Performance And Political Reliability — British Recruitment Policy An

    http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/dec/ethnicity.htm Ethnicity, Religion, Military Performance and Political Reliability — British Recruitment Policy and The Indian Army — 1757-1947 Maj (Retd) AGHA HUMAYUN AMIN from WASHINGTON DC writes about British recruitment policy in the...
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    Sanatan Singh Sabha

    Sanatan Singh Sabha is the original Singh Sabha formed in 1873 by Sikhs in Amritsar to recover a distinctive Sikhism. The Sikhs in Amritsar formed the Sanatan Singh Sabha as the original Singh Sabha in 1873. Still reckoned as an ideal Indian renaissance movement, Sanatan Singh Sabha recovered...
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    SciTech Now, Learn Indian Languages Via IPods And IPhones

    Language learning has just gotten better. In an instance of technology usefully deployed for the cause of culture, a non-resident Indian from the U.S. has designed a user-friendly language-learning application for mobile devices, intended primarily for the offspring of the Indian diaspora...
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    India Indian Politicians Given Prime Flats Meant For War Widows

    Indian politicians given prime flats meant for war widows Nirmala George New Delhi— The Associated Press Published Monday, Nov. 01, 2010 7:48AM EDT Last updated Monday, Nov. 01, 2010 7:53AM EDT   The apartments in the upscale Colaba neighbourhood of Mumbai were for the noblest of causes...
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    India Indian Air Force Is Short Of 600 Pilots

    http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/oct/04/slide-show-1-indian-air-force-is-short-of-600-pilots.htm The Indian Air Force on Monday said it was short of around 600 pilots and over 5,000 personnel below officer rank while maintaining that several steps were being taken to fill up the...
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    Leisure Indian Farmers Seek Fame And Fortune Through Bhangra Beat

    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/indian-farmers-seek-fame-and-fortune-through-bhangra-beat-2121667.html As Balbir Jagga drives a tractor around his farm in northwestern India, he dreams that the fields he tills will propel him to international music stardom. Jagga...
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