Posted on November 16, 2008 by Colrama
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Giving dignity to a community
Here’s an organization that works for the uplift of Anglo-Indians in Bangalore
Yamini Nair | TNN
They are a distinct yet minority community originating in India, consisting of people of British, French, Portuguese or Dutch ancestry whose native language is English. The Anglo-Indians, though [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by Rahul Dewan
This is a wonderful article by Arif Mohammed Khan, citing the poor leadership offered to the Muslim community from self-proclaimed muslim bodies such as the Personal Law Board, Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawarat and Jamaat-e-Islami. These organisations he says hijack the core muslim agenda, often backed by shameless political patronage, just as had happened in the Shah Bano [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2008 by Colrama
OCTOBER WILL be a good month to be a Christian in India. On the 12th, Anna Muttathupandathu of Kottayam will become Saint Alphonsa.
Anna was beatified by the Vatican in 1986 as the Blessed Alphonsa and on March 1, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI decided that she deserved sainthood. Two Sundays from now, she will [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by Rahul Dewan
n 2004 my friend and mentor, Prasanna Lal Das, wrote an article called “Article 370 - a case to extend it beyond Kashmir“, and ofcourse as most Indians do, I was out of my wits on reading the title. To me Article 370 was clearly another case of appeasement of “kashmiri muslims”. I never read [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2008 by Colrama
Help for Bandra braveheart’s kin
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: “He was always a quiet boy. He was always the first one to rush and help people,’’ said 55-year-old Pandurang Redkar about his 20-year-old son Mohan who died while saving a couple from drowning at Bandra bandstand four months ago.
He seemed oblivious of [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Colrama
At 22 years, Indian is UK’s youngest doc
London: At the age of 22, India-origin Heenal Raichura has qualified to become Britain’s youngest doctor and is all set to practise medicine.
Daughter of Nalin and Shobhna Raichura, Heenal was accepted into university to study medicine in 2002 when she was 16.
Six years later she [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Colrama
UN project gives Parsis hope of swelling numbers
Ketan Tanna | TNN
Mumbai: It was a casual request from Bombay Parsi Punchayat chief Minoo Shroff that resulted in gynaecologist Anahita Pandole taking on the assignment of helping Parsi couples battling infertility.
Three years down the line, she has handled 200 cases of whom 80 women [...]
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Posted on July 13, 2008 by Colrama
It is obvious that there has been a slip up.
The church has apologised and that should end the matter.
But will it?
IN BAD TASTE?
Jesus with beer and cigarettes in church journal sparks row
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Thiruvananthapuram: In what seems like a big faux pas that may snowball into a controversy, the official journal [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by Colrama
Boy sold for dad’s last rites
Woman sells infant to childless couple for Rs 10,000 to pay for ‘shraadh’
By Giridhar Jha in Patna
IT WAS a classic tale of poverty, ritualism and desperation. The tragedy was it was areal- life story. Awoman in Bihar sold [...]
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Posted on July 10, 2008 by Colrama
Locals say DDA sports facility to cost 1,000 trees
By Mausam Sharma in New Delhi
THE RESIDENTS of NRI Complex colony near Jahanpannah Club are locking horns with the Delhi Development Authority, which is constructing a sports complex in DDA- owned Chittaranjan Park.
The park, say the residents, will be built at the cost [...]
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