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Piano and flute in India, where the sitar is king
NEW DELHI — When Gavin Martin and his family moved here from southern India in the early '70s, the country's capital city offered the gifted young pianist exactly one option for continuing his music education: the Delhi School of Music. It was...
Tags: Education, Culture, Teaching and Learning, Isaac Stern, Classical Music (genre)
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Pilot sickout the latest problem to hit India's aviation industry
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of Air India pilots did not report to work Thursday, the fourth day of a sickout to protest their treatment by management, a dispute that so far has resulted in the cancellation of numerous international flights and cost about...Tags: Bird Flu, Air Transportation Delays, Health and Safety at School, India, Air Transportation Industry
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Sarah Palin: Where has the mystery gone?
Opinion L.A.Sarah Palin, Jackie Kennedy and Scarlett Johansson: Can we know too much about our public figures?... -
Boeing delivers first 787 Dreamliner to All Nippon Airways
Money & CompanyThe world’s first passenger-ready Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner was delivered to Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways on a rainy and blustery day at Boeing’s facilities in Everett, Wash.... -
The typewriter lives on in India
It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...Tags: Crimes, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Arts, India
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PASSINGS: Marva Wright, Margaret Moth, Jack Hirshberg
Marva Wright
Louisiana blues singer
Marva Wright, 62, who sang traditional jazz and gospel but was better known for sultry, sometimes bawdy blues songs, died Tuesday in New Orleans of complications from two strokes she suffered last year, said Adam...Tags: Crimes, Mali, Mahalia Jackson, Charles Thomas, Diseases and Illnesses
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PASSINGS
V.P. Singh Ex-prime minister of India V.P. Singh, 77, whose brief tenure as prime minister of India was remembered for his controversial policy of reserving a larger share of jobs for the country's disadvantaged castes, died Thursday of cancer and...Tags: Death, India, University of Minnesota, Defense, National Government
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Letters to the editor
Is the LAPD off the map? Re "LAPD to build data on Muslim areas," Nov. 10 I realize that "anti-terrorism" is all the rage now in government-expansion circles, but will someone please explain to me why the L.A. Police Department is involved in anti-...Tags: Donald Bren, Crimes, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), John Edwards, Sharon Stone
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Making short work of India: An itinerary
Times Staff WriterWe used two travel agents to arrange our flights, drivers and tours: Protravel Interantional, 9171 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 428, Beverly Hills, CA 90210; (800) 301-3993 or (310) 271-9566, vwww.protravelinc.com. Sadhana Travel Services, 301 Skipper Corner,...Tags: American Airlines, Inc., Hotels and Accommodations, Death, New Delhi (India), Los Angeles International Airport
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How India beat the odds
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ At midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, a new, independent India was born on a subcontinent racked with violence, ripped apart by a bloody partition. It came into being as flames blazed across the land, as corpse-...Tags: Democracy, Politics, Death, India, Armed Forces
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Meals and wheels in India: The trick to eating is getting to the table in one piece
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel EditorThe sharp joy you feel when your plane touches down is short-lived in India as you realize now you must get in a taxi. Goodbye order, upkeep, hygiene, caution. Hello dent king. Hello chaos. On a Sunday evening at Indira Gandhi International Airport in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), McDonald's, Nike, Inc., Trips and Vacations
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Delhi, on the Nigel express
Special to The Times"Welcome to deepest, darkest Delhi, where no white man doth tread," Nigel Hankin said in mock cadences. His snowy eyebrows arched as his left foot perched on a dirty stair. I peered up the ancient passageway. It was indeed a path straight to darkness, a...Tags: Eyewear, Death, Armed Forces, Defense, Tourism and Leisure
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