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Caste or Class? Yogita Limaye http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23003532 2027, India is projected to have the biggest middle class population in the world. In a society fragmented by caste, there has been much debate about whether recent economic growth has reached the country's most...

The Middle Class Goes Global Johannes Jütting 2012-02 -21 PARIS – In the twentieth century, the American dream of a middle-class life inspired the world. Now, in the twenty-first, we are moving at high speed toward a world based on a new geography of growth, with millions of people...

July 2, 2011 The Powers of Manipulation: Islam as a Geopolitical Tool to Control the Middle East By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Global Research, July 2, 2011 As Washington and its cohorts march towards the Eurasian Heartland, they have tried to manipulate Islam as a geo-political...

May 19, 2011 India’s middle class asserts itself May 19, 2011 Ramesh Thakur India is on the move, with millions climbing into middle-class status and a growing pool of billionaires. Yet it also has more poor, hungry and illiterate people than any other country in the world; access to...

February 17, 2011 Moment of truth for us as well in Middle East February 17, 2011 - The Star, Toronto Arab spring, they are calling it. It has spread from Tunisia and Egypt to Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Sudan and Syria, in varying...

Alan I. Leshner CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, 'Science' Discussions about science and religion too often resemble one team lining up against the other. In this country, the science-religion interaction can be as aggressive as NFL...

The lifestyle of a typical Middle Briton has been laid bare in wide-ranging research published yesterday. Analysts discovered a social group *living in semi-detached suburbia and worrying about how to pay the mortgage. And while many of the findings *reinforce the stereotype of a...

Middle Schoolers taking action on (Sikh) civil rights Last Friday, I was invited by the organization Teaching Matters to participate as an “expert” community activist in their annual Civil Rights Student Summit in downtown Manhattan. I was looking forward to the opportunity to work...

Sikh clergy's decision on Dera's second apology letter in many ways holds key to the imbroglio that has deepened the chasm between Sikh radicals and moderate organisations. More...

Dharamsala, INDIA -- Friend to kings and popes, presidents and paupers, the Dalai Lama has long been a symbol of hope for 5 million Tibetans living in exile or in their homeland occupied by China in 1950...

On visits to Muslim-majority nations and in interactions with Muslim citizens elsewhere, I am often surprised at a lack of knowledge about real Muslim heroes. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=128m2b7sa/*http%3A//metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050704-014638-1614r

Some people imagine that by choosing the most intense form of religious experience they have chosen the best way of "believing". http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/Islam/SIG=1281k8pth/*http%3A//metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20050624-091936-5189r

Middle East nations urged Israel and Palestinian leaders Tuesday to end their conflict for the sake of peace in the region while Malaysia called for greater efforts to disassociate Islam and Muslims from terrorism, at the inaugural Asia-Middle East dialogue in Singapore...

PARIS -- While he calls for a return to the Islam founded in the seventh-century, his communication methods are up-to-the-minute. Abu Mussab Al Zarqawi, the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, turns to the Internet to spread his message of jihad, or holy war...