pbs.org - 1/16/2009
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Photo Gallery Timeline Your Stories Ask Michael Wood About the Show For Teachers Resources In this landmark six-part series for PBS and the BBC, Michael Wood embarks on a dazzling and exciting journey through today's India, "seeking in the present for clues to her past, and in the past ...
thecable.foreignpolicy.com - 1/24/2009
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thecable.foreignpolicy.com —
When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- flanked
by President Obama -- introduced Richard Holbrooke as the
formidable new U.S. envoy to South Asia at a State Department ceremony on Thursday, India was noticeably absent from his title. Holbrooke, ...
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India’s stealth lobbying against Holbrooke's brief
adnkronos.com - 1/14/2009
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adnkronos.com —
New Delhi, 14 Jan. (AKI) - Pakistan deployed
additional troops on the border with India since the
Mumbai terror attacks, but New Delhi has not responded in the same way, India's army chief said on Wednesday. "The aspect of some (Pakistani) troops ...
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India: New Delhi aware of Pakistani troops on border - ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/10/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
In order to get beyond the stunningly superficial
analyses of the Israeli-Hamas conflict one might find on
MSNBC's Morning Joe, I called up Zbigniew Brzezinski -- former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Obama supporter and ...
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Nathan Gardels: Brzezinski: Obama Must Press Agreement ...
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Slumdog Millionaire
Jules Crittenden —
... PBS is currently airing The Story of India , a six-hour BBC production. It’s four hours in now (also available on DVD and a book), and is fascinating, mixing India’s history with its present day circumstances. I’ve read everything I could find about India since I was a kid, and the show has revealed things I never knew. ...
Vamsee Juluri: Obama's Inaugural Gesture to Hindu America
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Although there have been many people who have seen the good things in Hinduism and India, the power of old stereotypes run deep and unexamined. For example, in the dazzling six-part documentary The Story of India, which just concluded on PBS, the obviously affectionate Michael Wood casually says that the core of Hinduism is the caste system. I always thought that the core of Hinduism was its belief that God is one, regardless of what religion we practice, and that is what made it possible for Hindus to accommodate and coexist with successive religions over the ...
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