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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, Indira Gandhi, Students, Music
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At India bank, sex workers earn a little interest and self-esteem
Sima enters the small storefront in Kamathipura, Mumbai's red-light district, and hands over some money she had hidden in her bra, then adjusts her fake Prada T-shirt. It was a national holiday the day before and business was good, so she's deposited...Tags: HIV, Hospitals and Clinics, Mumbai (India), Prada, Prostitution
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]
World NowFire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies.... -
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: Indira Gandhi, Crimes, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Jawaharlal Nehru
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William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review
William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...Tags: Republican Party, Lawyers, U.S. Senate, Humphrey Bogart, Newspaper and Magazine
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'A Dead Hand: A Novel' by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux's contribution to the revival of contemporary travel writing is so seminal that casual readers may be inclined to forget that most of his rather astonishingly prodigious output has been literary fiction.
"A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta" is...Tags: Crimes, Prostitution, Hinduism, Trips and Vacations, Angelina Jolie
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PASSINGS: Jyoti Basu, Joe Shannon
Jyoti Basu
Communist statesman of India
Jyoti Basu, 95, a veteran communist leader who in 1996 came close to becoming India's prime minister, died Sunday in Calcutta of multiple organ failure, a party spokesman said. Basu became chief minister of West...Tags: Birmingham , Politics, Wars and Interventions, Career and Workplace, Manmohan Singh
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Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87; sarod player helped bring Indian music to U.S.
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home...Tags: Alistair Cooke, Entertainment, Grammy Awards, Arts and Culture, Classical Music (genre)
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Cuisines of two Indian cities
Special to The TimesON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as...Tags: Salt, Foods and Beverages, Lentils, Butter, Mangos
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Prosecution, Witnesses, Fires, Disasters and Accidents
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Friday morning news from around the world
Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Senate, Coral Springs, Market and Exchange, FBI
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12 spine-tingling short stories
Tribune reporterWith Halloween right around the corner, I think it's the perfect time to grab some fun-sized candy bars (I suggest 100 Grand), snuggle up with a good short story and get scared stiff. I asked the authors and editors I spoke with about the state of the...Tags: Crimes, Dining and Drinking, Health and Medical Professionals, Science and Technology, Tourism and Leisure
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