India Abroad back issues from January 2003:
Lalit Mansingh
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 The second part of the Indian Ambassador's exclusive interview Q: Have bilateral discussions between India and the US moved progressively beyond being Pakistan-centric as many people believe it still is? A: Sure. If you survey ...
The soul of India
Jan 03, 2003; ... Diwanji, Amberish K. India Abroad 01-03-2003 The deep spiritualism of most Indians is a bulwark against Hindu fanaticism The Gujarat election has created hope and fear across India. For those who abide by Hindutva, Gujarat has given them a magic potion, so they ...
'India's voice was heard and considered at the UN'
Jan 03, 2003; ... Mozumder, Suman Guha India Abroad 01-03-2003 One of India's priorities at the United Nations last year was how to take the issue of terrorism forward in the world body, and New Delhi achieved some success towards this end. India won over most countries to its viewpoint ...
Relations with neighbors take a nosedive
Jan 03, 2003; ... Sengupta, Ramanand India Abroad 01-03-2003 Ties with Pakistan, Bangladesh sour, no improvement either with China, Nepal and Sri Lanka India's relations with its neighbors, never a bright spot, took more of a beating last year. While relations with Islamabad ebbed ...
Congress to fine-tune fresh political agenda
Jan 03, 2003; ... Iype, George India Abroad 01-03-2003 Party plans to checkmate BJP dependence on Hindutva Five years after she took over as Congress president, Sonia Gandhi is searching for a political strategy to take on the Hindutva agenda that the Bharatiya Janata Party deftly used to ...
BJP prepares to repeat Gujarat success
Jan 03, 2003; ... Bhatt, Sheela India Abroad 01-03-2003 Party tempers Hindutva with call for development '2002 has been an unforgettable year for the Bharatiya Janata Party. It started with a series of electoral setbacks. It ended with an electoral triumph which has left our political ...
Terrorists in Kashmir kill women, children
Jan 03, 2003; ... Peer, Basharat India Abroad 01-03-2003 Chief Minister Sayeed says healing touch program will stay on course There seems to be no respite from bloodshed in Jammu and Kashmir where elections were held three months ago. Terrorists recently killed women and children, besides ...
Bush Administration tries to help India get gangster extradited from Portugal
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 The Bush Administration is using diplomatic muscle to persuade Portugal to consider positively New Delhi's application for the extradition of Abu Salem Ansari, an associate of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim. A senior official told ...
India-US deal not to hand over citizens to tribunals, other nations
Jan 03, 2003; ... Joseph, Josy India Abroad 01-03-2003 India and the United States have signed an agreement not to hand over each other's citizens to a third nation or tribunals such as the International Criminal Court, without the other country's approval. Indian Foreign Secretary Kanwal ...
Morshed Alam appointed to New York's Voter Assistance Commission
Jan 03, 2003; ... Joshi, Monika India Abroad 01-03-2003 Social and political activist Morshed Alam has been appointed to the New York City Voter Assistance Commission - a government agency set up in 1988 to encourage voter registration and participation. Alam, who migrated to the United ...
IPN honors five for service and excellence
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 The December meeting of the Atlanta, Georgia-based Indian Professionals Network focused on Heart Disease in South Asian Population, as part of a continuing dialogue undertaken by various groups across the United States to spread awareness among the ...
Telugu Brahmins hold their 5th convention in LA
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 The two-day fifth convention of the Association of Telugu Brahmins was held at the Embassy Suites Convention Center in Los Angeles, California recently with Swami Tathvavidananda of the Arsha Vidya Gurukulam as chief guest for the inaugural session ....
2-level approach mooted to improve India's image in US
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 A workshop aimed at evaluating India's image in the Western media suggested a two-pronged approach to address the need for constructive action aimed at getting the media to view the country in a more enlightened light. At the internal level, it ...
American Medical Association welcomes J1 waiver for Indian doctors
Jan 03, 2003; ... Joseph, George India Abroad 01-03-2003 In a shift in policy, the American Medical Association welcomed the decision to allow J1 waivers for doctors. "The waiver will help several doctors, many of them from India, to stay in the US," Dr. S. 'Jay' Jayasankar, vice chair of ...
Thomas Thannickal named 'Outstanding Neuroscientist'
Jan 03, 2003; ... Joseph, George India Abroad 01-03-2003 Narcolepsy is a serious sleep disorder, affecting an estimated one in every 2,000 people, causing them to fall asleep involuntarily. Dr. Thomas Thannickal and other researchers at the UCLA School of Medicine's department of ...
A river runs through it
Jan 03, 2003; ... Venugopal, Bijoy India Abroad 01-03-2003 Like an artery laden with blood, the river weaves through the land leaving a trail of life. It pours out of well-springs in the mountains, starting as a mere trickle among the rocks. Washing down fertile soil into the plains, rivers ...
To be (veggie) or not to be
Jan 03, 2003; ... Muralidhar, Nivedita India Abroad 01-03-2003 There has been an ongoing argument about whether vegetarianism is good for the body in my family. Three of us are non-veggies, my mother being the rebel vegetarian. We challenge her with the ...
INDIAN VALUES: Teach them English
Jan 03, 2003; ... Shah, Bharat S. India Abroad 01-03-2003 Although hardly five to 10 percent of our children born and raised in America may be able to read and/or write in their mother tongue (a wild guess based on personal observation), I think 75 percent or more are able to say at least a ...
2003: Year of the Woman in Indian politics
Jan 10, 2003; ... Shenoy, T.V.R. India Abroad 01-10-2003 Indian women are surprisingly well represented at the top tier of the political pyramid. The leader of the Opposition in Parliament, the chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Tamil Nadu are women Prophesying is an activity ...
Desi groups drum up protest against INS directive for special registration
Jan 10, 2003; ... Joseph, George India Abroad 01-10-2003 Led by the Campaign to Stop the Disappearances, protestors gathered in front of the Immigration and Naturalization Service office at Federal Plaza, New York, to protest a directive enforcing 'special registration' on male immigrants ...
Dr. A.C., Gangadharan, engineer and educator, dies at 66
Jan 10, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-10-2003 Dr. A.C. Gangadharan, an educator and civic leader in Parsippany, New Jersey, and a former president of the Parsippany-Troy Hills Board of Education, died on December 25. He was 66. Gangadharan, known as 'Ganga' to many, suffered a heart attack ...
This doctor is a champion powerlifter
Jan 10, 2003; ... Bhatt, Shakti India Abroad 01-10-2003 For a record-breaking powerlifter, Sumant Chakravorty defies most stereotypes. He weighs only 144 pounds, a far cry from the average 280 to 300 pounds that is the norm for the tribe. And unlike most members of the ...
Total paisa vasool
Jan 03, 2003; ... Verma, Sukanya India Abroad 01-03-2003 SATTA Music: Raju Singh Lyrics: Javed Akhtar Label: Crescendo A modern girl gets dragged into the world of politics. How she decides to do her bit in cleansing the corrupted system forms the crux of ...
Love in real time
Jan 03, 2003; ... Kulkarni, Ronjita India Abroad 01-03-2003 I saw Saathiya today. For the first time in many months, I could entirely relate to a Hindi film. And my marriage of 13 months helped me identify with it even more. It did not have unnecessary clichs, annoying songs or the typical ...
Kaante fails to live up to the hype
Jan 03, 2003; ... N, Anjum India Abroad 01-03-2003 We should see this film. It stars Amitabh Bachchan and Mahesh Manjrekar," said my wife, when she first saw the television promos of Kaante about six months back. "Sheee ... It's directed by Sanjay Gupta," I countered, knowing fully ...
Super snacks: Low fat, Indian-style treats for anytime munching
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 Sevaiya Upma Ingredients lb. vermicelli or sevaiya (available at Indian grocers; or else use extra thin Chinese rice noodles or angel hair pasta) 1 tbsp. grated fresh coconut A golf-sized ball of tamarind or imli soaked in cup ...
Something in common
Jan 03, 2003; ... Bhatia, Shyam India Abroad 01-03-2003 There's a lot that unites Indians with others from the subcontinent How refreshing to see that despite our never ending hostilities with Pakistan, the people of the two countries still have more in common that unites rather than ...
Living yoga
Jan 03, 2003; ... Akthar, Shameem India Abroad 01-03-2003 Many people think of yoga as something that needs to be done anyhow, fitted somewhere into a busy schedule. That attitude, forgivable in a beginner, can actually harm an advanced practitioner. Yoga, when taught right, encourages ...
Daredevil gourmet
Jan 03, 2003; ... Pais, Arthur J. India Abroad 01-03-2003 Sati Sharma is furiously demolishing the reputation of New York's Curry Lane built over three decades. At Brick Lane Curry House, Sharma - who is just 27 - is offering, with the help of his terrific and inventive chef Eric McCarthy, ...
'The family car cannot drive the poor into the jet age'
Jan 03, 2003; ... Thayil, Jeet India Abroad 01-03-2003 Ivan Illich, man of many parts, lived much as he wrote Ivan Illich's passing will be mourned in many places considered marginal to the mainstream cultures of the First World. Variously described as a radical theorist, a social ...
Oram knocks out India in first one-dayer
Jan 03, 2003; ... Magotra, Ashish India Abroad 01-03-2003 There is a feeling in some quarters that one day cricket does not require strategic thinking, and fine-tuning; that you go in with a game plan and stick to it no matter what. The inherent fallacy of this line of thinking was ...
New Zealand make clean sweep of Test series
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 A game of glorious uncertainties, it is the element that makes cricket such a joy to watch. After India's abject performance in the first Test, few would have expected this team to bounce back. And the team did not let anyone down as ...
Indian Americans take stock, wait and watch
Jan 03, 2003; ... Nanda, Tanmaya Kumar India Abroad 01-03-2003 Most changed investment strategy, diversified portfolios and waited for the storm to blow over 2002 was a remarkable year in many ways, and perhaps none as much as in the financial sector. For all the wrong reasons ...
US economy recovers slowly, but the jobs still aren't there
Jan 03, 2003; ... Mozumder, Suman Guha India Abroad 01-03-2003 For the American economy, 2002 was a year of recovery, albeit a jobless one. From the previous year, when the US gross domestic product fell and the country was in the midst of a global recession, GDP growth rate ...
'India will never roar like an Asian tiger. It is more like a lovable elephant'
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 A Harvard Business School graduate, Gurcharan Das was CEO of Proctor and Gamble India. Today, he is a management consultant, a venture capitalist, but far better known as a writer. His columns in leading Indian newspapers and The Wall Street Journal ...
Prospects bright but growth slows in South Asia: World Bank
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 A World Bank report says the recent global economic slowdown, adverse weather conditions, and internal and external security concerns reduced growth figures for South Asia in 2002. The report says the anticipated average growth in ...
L'affaire Polaris: A CEO's Indonesian ordeal
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 India secures release of IT executives arrested in Indonesia over commercial dispute It was finally a merry Christmas for Arun Jain, chairman and CEO of Chennai-based Polaris Software Lab. But not before he got a scare. His arrival ...
Arun Sarin named Vodafone CEO
Jan 03, 2003; ... Bhatt, Shakti India Abroad 01-03-2003 Arun Sarin's Christmas gift arrived early. December 18 Vodafone, the largest wireless telephone company in the world, chose the 48-year-old Indian to replace its retiring cricket-loving CEO Chris Gent. Starting April 1, Sarin ...
Indian IT firms wary as NJ passes bill to ban outsourcing
Jan 03, 2003; ... Ganapati, Priya India Abroad 01-03-2003 Also: FTC decision to bar telemarketing to numbers that opt to be part of the 'do-not-call' registry may hit Indian call center revenues The New Jersey Senate December 19 passed a bill that bans the outsourcing of government ...
Abandon no-first use policy, security experts tell government
Jan 03, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-03-2003 No other nuclear nation practices such a policy, says National Security Advisory Board The National Security Advisory Board, India's top panel of national security experts, has asked the government to review its no-first-use of nuclear weapons ...
Repair work yet to begin on Queens gurdwara
Jan 03, 2003; ... Nanda, Tanmaya Kumar India Abroad 01-03-2003 After September 11 the Sikh community was hard put to explain that their turbans were not the same as the ones worn by Osama bin Laden even as hate attacks were reported across the country. Just as the attacks died down, the ...
Dr. Jay Yadav's Angioguard lauded as 'watershed' invention at medical meet
Jan 03, 2003; ... Joseph, George India Abroad 01-03-2003 Balloon angioplasty may soon replace normal surgery to clear clogged arteries in the neck, thanks to Dr. Jay Yadav. His invention, Angioguard, with the potential to reduce fatal strokes, was lauded as a 'watershed event' at the ...
Indian doctor masterminds bio-terrorism response in Georgia
Jan 03, 2003; ... Bhatt, Shakti India Abroad 01-03-2003 Against the backdrop of likely war between the United States and Iraq, Georgia physician Dr. V. Ramana Dhara is helping his country prepare for a possible chemical and biological backlash. Dhara draws on medical experiences gained ...
Community groups file class action lawsuit against Ashcroft, INS
Jan 03, 2003; ... Din, Suleman India Abroad 01-03-2003 The mass detention of hundreds of Arab and Muslim immigrants in Southern California has prompted backlash from community groups and legal activists, who have filed a class action lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft and the ...
Rogerchugh.com returns to haunt New Jersey official
Jan 03, 2003; ... Din, Suleman India Abroad 01-03-2003 Rogerchugh.com is up and running, again. And again, the joke is on Rajesh 'Roger' Chugh. The first time around was Chugh's own doing. The businessman and New Jersey Democrat fundraiser had a vanity web site launched in 2001, which ...
'We're not seeing changes in the law. The difference is in how it is being applied'
Jan 03, 2003; ... Din, Suleman India Abroad 01-03-2003 Two reports were released recently that had different findings on the state of immigration in America. One, put forward by the Center for Immigration Studies, announced that after polling 2,800 ordinary Americans and another 400 ...
Insaf donates encyclopedias to libraries across US
Jan 03, 2003; ... Joshi, Monika India Abroad 01-03-2003 A group of Indian Americans has donated a set of encyclopedias to various public libraries and schools across the United States to make information on India available to young people. The public library in West Orange, New Jersey, is ...
Nixon Administration favored Pakistan in 1971 war with India: Declassified documents
Jan 03, 2003; ... Mozumder, Suman Guha India Abroad 01-03-2003 When it comes to cozying up to Pakistan, President George W. Bush is in good company. Newly declassified documents show the Nixon Administration bent over backwards to placate Islamabad during the period of Pakistan's ...
'India, Pak should open Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers'
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 Washington think tank Henry L. Stimson Center, which has an exclusive confidence building measures program on South Asia, has said India and Pakistan could benefit greatly from the establishment of Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers to ...
Cultivate India as bulwark against China: American Enterprise Institute
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 The American Enterprise Institute becomes the latest conservative Washington think tank with close links to the GOP leadership in Congress to urge the Bush Administration to cultivate India as a strategic ally so that it could, among ...
Babu Khalfan's firm makes mementos from WTC steel for families of 9/11 victims
Jan 03, 2003; ... Mozumder, Suman Guha India Abroad 01-03-2003 Babu Khalfan was not even born in India. He is an American from Madagascar, where his forefathers had migrated from Gujarat long ago. But Khalfan, in his late 50s and founder-owner of Signs+Decal Corporation, likes to call ...
'Bob' Majumder's case still to come to trial
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 Defense contractor accused of making illegal contributions to at least five lawmakers Ever since the unsealing of the federal indictment July 30, where Indian American defense contractor Parthasarathi 'Bob' Majumder was accused ...
Rohit Kumar may join Majority leader Frist's staff
Jan 03, 2003; ... Haniffa, Aziz India Abroad 01-03-2003 Indian American Republican leaders defend Lott, say he's not a racist In the weeks before South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday December 5, Congressional staffer Rohit Kumar was flying high. Senior policy advisor ...
Application process may break down with INS abolition
Jan 03, 2003; ... Mozumder, Suman Guha India Abroad 01-03-2003 The specter of an unprecedented breakdown in immigration application processing, thanks to the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the transfer of its functions to the newly created Department of Homeland ...
Monks organize discussion on Kashmir
Jan 10, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-10-2003 The Bharat Sevashram Sangha of North America Inc, a spiritual brotherhood of monks and volunteers based in Kendall Park, New Jersey, sponsored a discussion on 'Awareness of Kashmir' at its facility on December 28. Surinder K. Zutshi, editor and ...
Illinois Sai Baba temple inaugurated
Jan 10, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-10-2003 Regular prayer services have begun at the Shri Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir located at Foran Lane, Aurora, Illinois. Over 1,000 devotees attended the inauguration December 19, Datta Jayanti Day. Festivities began at 7 am with the ceremonial ...
10,000 Sikhs congregate to celebrate 10th Guru's birthday
Jan 10, 2003; ... Thariath, Abraham India Abroad 01-10-2003 Over 10,000 Sikhs, plus several Hindus and Muslims, from California and neighboring states congregated in Los Angeles December 25 to celebrate the 336th birth anniversary of the 10th Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. The daylong function, ...
The loftier the goal...
Jan 10, 2003; ... Pais, Arthur J. India Abroad 01-10-2003 The harder these three Rhodes scholars will try Making a difference is the common theme in the aspirations of three Indian American Rhodes scholars. The fourth, Devi Sridhar, we profiled in our Pathbreakers Special in our Yearend ...
Holy dip
Jan 10, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-10-2003 January brings the Magh Mela Allahabad in northern India will be very busy this season. Tents and camp sites by the thousands will sprout up along the banks of the Ganga. The town will come alive with the chanting of mantras, the chiming of ...
'I will most definitely return'
Jan 10, 2003; ... Jhaveri, Krishna India Abroad 01-10-2003 Last year in summer, I visited India for two and a half weeks. It was a very rewarding experience to see the many things that make up the culture of this great country. We visited Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Mumbai. These places ...
INDIAN VALUES: You can't blame society
Jan 10, 2003; ... Buddiga, Rekha India Abroad 01-10-2003 My sons, Pratyush and Akshay, were born in New Zealand, and lived there till they were 5 and 4, respectively, before we moved to the United States. As kids, they had a lot of Indian friends in Wellington, where we lived. Because of ...
BAAZ - A BIRD IN DANGER
Jan 10, 2003 ... India Abroad 01-10-2003 Music: Ismail Darbar Lyrics: Mehboob Label: Crescendo Ismail Darbar and Mehboob first got together for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. The music was a stupendous success but the duo split soon after. Last year they ...
Gayatri with a Goan accent
Jan 10, 2003; ... Venugopal, Bijoy India Abroad 01-10-2003 Remo Fernandes' neo-traditional attempt disappoints It is true after all - the electronica bug is now a raging epidemic. Its recent victims are two popular Indian chants - the Gayatri mantra and the bhajan, Jai Jagdish hare. And ...
'It's all been tukka bazi'
Jan 10, 2003; ... Bhatia, Shyam India Abroad 01-10-2003 Roshan Seth on the sets of King Lear I've not been able to control my career or shape it in any way, it's all been tukka bazi," says Roshan Seth. "As they say if you get your cards right that's okay, but if not go. So my cards have ...
A dream comes home
Jan 10, 2003; ... Venugopal, Bijoy India Abroad 01-10-2003 For British Asian singer Susheela Raman, epiphany arrived as a song. And she never stopped singing it One night late in 1998 Susheela Raman had a dream. A song she had learned many years ago returned to haunt her. It was a ...