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If Brahman is all and all is Brahman, is there still room for stuff like tables, chairs, and wombats?
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Like all big festivals, Kolkata's biggest festival Durga Puja is big big business. Now a Durga Puja organizer wants the actual art installation to reflect the economy of DUrga Puja so visitors understand it's more than a carnival.
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She comes once a year. Sometimes she is jet black, sometimes she is blue, a dark midnight blue or the powdery blue of a summer evening sky. While the rest…
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Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights that hurt the most.This is a story that’s all too familiar in America, a family…
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An ode to the local trains in Kolkata, moving and harboring life daily.
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A mother goes back to her parents once every year with all her children. That sounds like hardly the excuse for five days of city wide festivities. But…
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Sandip considers the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, 150 years after his birth.
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Kashmir has been on Sandip’s mind lately, his boyhood memories and the current media blackout.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York.But it also marks the 20th anniversary of the first Pride march in Kolkata, India.
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When Queen Harish came on stage you could not look away. She whirled, she twirled. Her sequined skirts billowed around her. Her arms were filled with…
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When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die. In elections, though, you might just live to fight another day.
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India has a new government. But when all the sound and fury end, the real work of democracy begins in this, the greatest democratic experiment in the…