IndianCulture

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• Intercultural Hospitality in Our Mixed Home

  
  Gori Girl — Authority: 117
  Photo Credit: mckaysavage A commenter at this site, Lurker Frequent (aka LF ), has once again asked a really interesting set of related questions in the comments section of a recent post that I’d like to address as a proper post, since I have plenty to say on the topic. Here are his questions: I am very ...
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• “Direction is a difficult job”- Sir Ben Kingsley

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  SIR BEN KINGSLEY TELLS JYOTHI VENKATESH THAT HE DOES NOT FIND DIRECTION HIS CUP OF TEAKrishna Bhanji, who is known all over the world as actor Sir Ben Kingsley, who has had his strong roots in India, is all set now to don the grease paint to play yet another legend- Shah Jahan. Twenty [...]
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• US envoy ‘adapts’ to Indian culture

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Less than five months into the job, US Ambassador Timothy J. Roemer has learnt one of the basic tenets of Indian culture - respect for the mother-in-law.Speaking to reporters, Roemer recalled that he shared President Barack Obama’s table with his mother-in-law Mary Jonston at the state ...
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• Hindu right-wing outfit activists beat up author

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bhopal, Nov 27 (IANS) Activists of a right-wing Hindu outfit Friday beat up the author of a book, which they claimed was an “attack on Indian culture”, at a function here.Activists of Sanskriti Bachao Manch, affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), beat up Rishi Ajay Das, who had written a book ...
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• Author of book describing marriage a moral rape suffers public outrage

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Bhopal, Nov 27 (ANI): An author of a book describing the concept of marriage as ‘a moral rape’ had a tough time on the release function when members of a cultural group publicly humiliated him, here on Friday.Hundreds of activists belonging to Sankriti Bachao Manch and ‘Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarti Parishad (ABVP) ...
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• Shut Yuh Mout’, Go Away…

  
  The Bobolee Chronicles — Authority: 100
  …”Mama, look ah boo boo dey.”Harry Belafonte and Nat King Cole perform  a classic calypso “Mama Look A Boo Boo”, which was written in 1956 by Lord Melody (Fitzroy Alexander).Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I was also able to find the same song done on the steelpan… It was performed by a University ...
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• Government taking steps to widen educational opportunities for NRIs: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Port of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Thursday said that his government is taking concrete steps to widen the scope of educational and business opportunities for both Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) as New Delhi is keen to tap the wellspring of Indian ...
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• Dalai Lama urges Indian youth to adopt Gandhian principles

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has urged Indian youths to adopt Gandhian principles of non-violence and truth. Delivering a valedictory lecture at the centenary celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Hind Swaraj or Home Rule’ here on Sunday, the Dalai Lama described the ...
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• Blue Monday

  
  Feather Stitching — Authority: 422
  Here is my choice for this week’s Blue Monday – my wedding outfit for an Indian wedding … of course my sari HAD to be blue!!!  The only thing I refused to do was wear the traditional bodice top that shows half your midriff … no bulging bits were gonna be on public show for this gal! :D  
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• Bollywood Actress Meghna Gulzar Is Pregnant

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 162
  Bollywood star Meghna Gulzar is six months pregnant. Meghna is due in February and is said to be excited about the upcoming birth. “Meghna has been keeping a very low profile these days. She is six months pregnant. She was supposed to start her film Milte Hain this year, but had to push it further due to the ...
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• Indian Solutions for Pepsi

  
  CultureWizard Blog — Authority: 122
  At a media conference in New Delhi this week, Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, said “We feel that solutions which have been devised by us around the world, cannot be imposed here. The company needs to find unique solutions for India.” She also noted that the country was in the top three markets for the [...]
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• transformational travel: the voluntourism experience

  
  Breathe Magazine — Authority: 496
  Seven of us pedal mountain bikes along a bumpy dirt road trying not to spill paint from the cans balanced on our handlebars. Children look up, calling out “Jambo!” as we pass. Some run from their homes to greet us, their sunny smiles reaching us before they do.I’ve exclaimed the Swahili version of hello no ...
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• Canadian Prime Minister begins visit with a call for more trade

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Mumbai, Nov 16(ANI): Visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday began his three-day visit to India with a pitch to strengthen bilateral economic relations between the two countries. Addressing a huge audience including eminent business delegates and the media, Harper said that India, the South-Asian ...
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• Indian student’s doodle on Google on Children’s Day

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Nov 14 (IANS) The colourful doodle on Google’s home page on Children’s Day Saturday - complete with a peacock and Mahatma Gandhi - is the creation of a 10-year-old Indian student and represents the country’s diversity and culture. This is the first time that a ‘made in India’ doodle is being ...
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• No Forcing of Culture and Language Please

  
  Frankly Speaking — Authority: 446
  The Thakreys (first Bal and now Raj) have been arguing that speaking of Marathi language in Bombay will result in uplifting the plight of Marathi Manoos. I just fail to understand that how the forcing of a local language on all and sundry living in the metropolitan city will result in development of the local ...
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• Outsourced: The Folly of Words

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 138
  bangalore, india India now has among the world’s largest constellations of remote-sensing satellites. They are sophisticated enough to distinguish healthy coconuts from diseased ones in this region’s thick palms. They can also zero in on deadly mosquitoes lurking in a patch of jungle ( Washington Post ). At ...
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• GPOYW. An Indian Indian.

  
  http://ohrohin.com — Authority: 497
  GPOYW. An Indian Indian.
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• 20 years after fall of his boundary wall, Manoj still can’t think straight

  
  Faking News — Authority: 427
  Etawah, Uttar Pradesh. While the whole world and the Indian media remembered the 20 th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall yesterday, nobody spared a thought for poor Manoj Tiwary who lost his senses after his boundary wall fell on him exactly the same day twenty years back. Manoj, a 19-year-old flamboyant youth ...
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• Twitter: A Window into #WestIndian Culture

  
  Gen Y PR Prescriptions — Authority: 104
  As an online PR professional, you work with a variety of web based tools, dashboards, platforms, destinations, networks…throw in a few more nouns and you get the point. Business and tech analysts dig into them upon release, a value is assigned to them and their creators, promotion hits hyperdrive and off it goes to ...
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• Is Sanskrit really a “Indo-European” language?

  
  B Shantanu's Blog — Authority: 127
  Thanks to Dr Kalyananraman-ji for alerting me to this. In this  well-argued and researched essay titled, Colonial Constructs about Indian Languages , Satish Thadani explains why there may be a lot more in common between “Indo-Aryan” and Dravidian” languages than what history texts tell us. Excerpts below: ...
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