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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “diaspora”

• Celebrating Brain Drain

  
  Burgh Diaspora — Authority: 468
  New Jersey is debating the wisdom of financial incentives that keep the brightest high school student in the state . Our model for workforce development is broken. The investment in local talent is paying big dividends in Texas and Colorado, but not in New Jersey. There has to be a better way. There is : ...
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• Jewdas: Radical Diaspora Voices

  
  Tikun Olam-???? ????: Make the World a Better Place — Authority: 547
  This post will attest to the benefit of bloggers checking their referral log to see who is reading and linking to them.  Had I not done this I wouldn’t have come across one of the most interesting web sites I’d seen in months.  It is Jewdas: Radical Voices for the Alternative Diaspora .  The website name ...
  16 hours ago

• The Indian Community in Myanmar

  
  Sinlung — Authority: 157
  By Dr. V. Suryanarayan The Indian Community in Myanmar is one of those forgotten children of Mother India. The tragic status of the community has not been sufficiently brought to light by any institution in India.. The Singhvi Committee Report: According to the Singhvi Committee Report, the total Indian ...
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• VIDEO: Timpuri Noi, Toronto, 2009.11.12

  
  Also Sprach Zamolxis — Authority: 126
  Mi-a luat ceva timp. Prietenii mei si-au pus demult pozele pe Facebook, omul cu camera pe trepiedul pana-n tavan a postat si el Perfect pe Youtube, numai eu ramasesem cu clipurili si pozili in mana. Vreau sa-ncep cu un clip care nu-i al meu, dar e Perfect. Asa as vrea sa arate si clipurile mele, dar n-au cum, ...
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• Dita Von Teese on her Armenian roots at a book signing event in London

  
  Unzipped: Gay Armenia — Authority: 425
  I met Dita at Waterstones bookstore in central London. She is a famous American burlesque artist, model and actress. She was in London for a book signing event for her newly published book Dita Stripteese. She looked stunning and elegant. I managed to have a very brief chat with her. As you may remember from one of ...
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• Cuba: Call to Respect Human Rights

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  As four Cuban dissidents are reportedly arrested in Havana, Uncommon Sense profiles political prisoner Oscar Biscets call for his compatriots “to join an international campaign set for next month to demand that the Castro dictatorship respect human rights.”
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• There may be value in old explanations when retold well

  
  Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint — Authority: 486
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• India: On Liberation Of Women

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 721
  “For me the strongest drag force working against my desire to return home is my experience of life as a woman in India,” confesses Heartcrossings while discussing about the lack of freedom, independence and safety of Indian women.
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• "There isn’t one grain of anything in the world that is sold in a free market. Not one."

  
  Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint — Authority: 486
  Land grabs: Africas new ‘resource curse’? Khadija Sharife 2009-11-26, Issue 459 It has been called the next golden commodity by investment firms, and ‘neocolonialism’ by the now repentant director general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf. The phenomenon better known as ...
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• Misrepresenting Indigenous Religions

  
  Africa Unchained — Authority: 490
  Bubacarr Sankanu writes in Africa Council The prophets of intolerance cannot seriously claim to be defending African Values as all the monotheistic religions they are using to argue are foreign imports. It is the serious Voodoo Practitioners like those of the Republic of Benin who can talk about defending the ...
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• Dubai World crisis bad for us: Kerala finance minister

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 27 (IANS) Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, a former economics professor at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) here, Friday said the $59-billion debt woes of state-run Dubai World will hit the state’s economy.”This is certainly going to hit the Middle East, which means this is bad ...
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• `No request from Pakistan for a meeting, dialogue,’ says Krishna

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Smita PrakashPort of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna, who is accompanying the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on his visit to the United States and Trinidad and Tobago, has said that India would be more than willing to talk to Pakistan, but only after authorities in that country took ...
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• Overseas Indians have promoted Brand India: Manmohan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Manish ChandPort of Spain, Nov 27 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his three-day visit to the Caribbean nation with a call to nearly a million persons of Indian origin in this region to be “active partners” in “a new India” and lauded overseas Indians for promoting Brand India. “Today’s India ...
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• Obamas’ State Dinner was `”magnifiscent’, unforgettable experience: PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Port of Spain, Nov.27 (ANI): Speaking informally with the media at a reception hosted for him and the Indian diaspora here last evening by the Indian High Commissioner, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh,said that his evening with the Obamas at the state dinner in Washington on November 24 was ...
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• Diaspora Diaries 24.11.09

  
  SWRadioAfrica Podcast — Authority: 144
  On Diaspora Diaries Alex Bell presents part one of her two part interview with renowned political exile, Philemon Matibe, about his newly released memoir, Madhinga Bucket Boy. Matibe describes his boyhood in colonial Rhodesia, and becoming a man in Zimbabwe. He explains the country’s euphoria after ...
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• US media plays up Indian PM’s Washington visit to the hilt (Part-III)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Smita PrakashWashington, Nov.26 (ANI): In his article for the Huffington Post, Indian-American motivational speaker and management guru Deepak Chopra, who attended the State Dinner as one the guests, says: “I never expected to see so many faces of modern India as I saw Tuesday night. The White House’s state ...
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• Banned Hindu outfit chief wants talks with Malaysian PM

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Kuala Lumpur, Nov 26 (IANS) The banned Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has proposed a dialogue with the Malaysian government to discuss the future of the estimated 1.8 million ethnic Indians in the country.It wants to talk to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak who, since taking office in April, has released five top ...
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• Poems and personal essays wanted for a new book: The editor is seeking contributions from Black and Mixed-race women of African & African-Caribbean descent on the themes of hair and/or skin.

  
  Black Women in Europe Blog — Authority: 126
  Shangwe Hair and Skin Anthology Poems and personal essays wanted for a new book. The editor is seeking contributions from Black and Mixed-race women of African & African-Caribbean descent on the themes of hair and/or skin. New & previously published poems & personal essays accepted. New unpublished ...
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• Sadia Shepard On Bene Israels

  
  The Kamla Show - India's premier podcast about India and the Global Indian — Authority: 112
  American filmmaker and writer Sadia Shepard grew up thinking that her Pakistani maternal grandmother was a Muslim just like her mother. And therein lies an interesting story, whose roots can be traced to the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 and the tragic consequences it had for so many families and ...
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• Books at Bedtime: Cora Cooks Pancit

  
  http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress — Authority: 493
  For a lively, happy bedtime story, look no further than Cora Cooks Pancit by Dorina K. Lazo Gilmore and illustrated by Kristi Valiant ( Shen’s Books , 2009). Cora has always had to watch her older brother and sisters helping with the “grown-up jobs” in the kitchen but she’s certainly been taking it all in ...
  5 days ago

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