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    Apr 18, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  1. Review: 'The Revolutionary Optimists' go inside impoverished India

    The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of developing world struggles and possibilities.
    The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of...

    Tags: Movies, Entertainment

  2. Sep 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. 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.
    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: India, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Pakistan, Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance

  4. Dec 9, 2011 | Los Angeles Times
  5. Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]

    World Now
    Fire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies....
  6. Apr 20, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  7. 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 Francisco. He was 87.
    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: Television, Sociology, PBS (tv network), Entertainment, Humphrey Bogart

  8. Jan 27, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. '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.
    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: Trips and Vacations, Angelina Jolie, Genres, Brad Pitt, Crimes

  10. Jan 18, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. PASSINGS: Jyoti Basu, Joe Shannon

    <b>Jyoti Basu</b>
    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: India, Corporate Crime, Manmohan Singh, Central Intelligence Agency, Fidel Castro

  12. Jun 20, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  13. 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: Television, Ravi Shankar, Alistair Cooke, Dialysis, Entertainment

  14. Jul 11, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Cuisines of two Indian cities

    ON 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 "The Calcutta Kitchen," by London-based writer Simon Parkes and restaurateur-chef Udit Sarkhel, and "My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking," by anthropologist-chef Niloufer Ichaporia King of San Francisco, are now bringing regional Indian cuisines home for all of us.
    Special to The Times
    ON 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: Heads of State, Lentils, Breads, Mustard, Onions

  16. May 15, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  17. India sees wide scope for rice-seed trade with Bangladesh

    The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh / Asia News Network
    DHAKA (The Daily Star/ANN) -- A seminar on addressing the barriers to rice seed trade between India and Bangladesh raised an important issue; if China could export rice seeds to Bangladesh, why can't India? Bangladesh is a net rice seed importer with an...

    Tags: India, Germany, Media Industry, China, Bangladesh

  18. May 9, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  19. EDITORIAL: Support strategies that help victims of sex trafficking

    Seattle Times
    ON two separate continents, in two different cultures, efforts to end the sex trafficking of minors are under way with remarkable parallels. Washington state has passed 33 laws since 2002 clamping down on sex traffickers and improving funding for victim...

    Tags: Prostitution, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Sex Crimes, UNICEF

  20. May 6, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant
  21. READER SUBMITTED: Rotary Signature Project Unfolds

    East Hartford
    In what has become the signature project of her year as President of the East Hartford Rotary Club, Sheryl O'Connor and East Hartford Rotarians will soon present the Town of East Hartford with a new Bookmobile to be used in supplying books and other media...

    Tags: East Hartford, Goodwin College, Skype, Rotary International

  22. Apr 30, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune
  23. India companies bill to prevent chit funds misuse

    The Statesman, Kolkata, India / Asia News Network
    NEW DELHI (The Statesman/ANN) -- The Companies Bill, pending passage in the Indian Parliament, will seek to protect investors from being duped by unscrupulous chit funds entities, the government said yesterday. "There are provisions in the Bill which...

    Tags: India, Corporate Crime, Fraud, Parliament, Germany

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