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British Raj

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Name: British Raj

First Reported Mar 18 2010 - Updated Mar 18 2010 - 1 Documents

Lata Mangeshkar

'Most Bengalis in the establishment just hated me'

Do you think Indian music still suffers from infantilism?The love songs's lyrics still consist of sajan or sainya in Hindi and ogo, haango in Bengali. I find them puerile.There was a time when India heard memorable yet distinctly different voices. I am ... [Published Mar 18 2010 by rediff.com]

Entities: Lata Mangeshkar, Lucien Goldmann, Sachin Dev Burman, Shamshad Begum, Noor Jehan

First Reported Mar 17 2010 - Updated Mar 17 2010 - 1 Documents

50 ruptures in past 5 years

Mumbai, March 17 -- The 100-year-old Tansa water main that burst on Monday evening, necessitating a 35 per cent water cut across Mumbai, ruptured more than 50 times in the last five years. The pipeline stretches 41 kilometres between Tansa lake and Tarali ... [Published Mar 17 2010 by Yahoo! India]

Entities: water supply, Mumbai, Bhiwandi, British Raj

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

Seminar on colonial architecture held at CIIT

Our correspondentIslamabadThe Department of Architecture, Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), organised a seminar and exhibition on Colonial Architecture.Samra Khan, Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture and supervisor ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by The News International]

Entities: Architecture, Rawalpindi, Bhai Ram Singh, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology

First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 1 Documents

Khushwant Singh

Weed them out

LETTERSMaoists have been allowed to mushroom, flourish and become antagonistic to national progress and development ('Operation red sun', February 21). This islargely due to indecisiveness and failure of the government to nip the movement in its early ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by The Week]

Entities: Jaya Jaitley, Khushwant Singh, Shobhaa De

First Reported Mar 04 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 1 Documents

Nothing common and there is no wealth

Having narrated how republican India became a member of Britain’s Commonwealth (IE, February 19), it is only fair that the subsequent story of this “free association of independent nations” should also be told. It was only in May 1949 that the “new Commonwealth” ... [Published Mar 04 2010 by Indian Express]

Entities: Krishna Menon, British Raj, India

First Reported Mar 02 2010 - Updated Mar 02 2010 - 1 Documents

Taliban

IRRELEVANT BATTLES

02-03-2010While we worry about Chilean earthquakes, the moral vacuum of our political leaders or this endless winter, Richard Lutz warns us of a little conflict in Afghanistan that we should never forget. British commanders have said the ongoing offensive ... [Published Mar 02 2010 by The Stirrer]

Entities: Afghanistan, British Raj, Taliban, Herat (Afghanistan)

First Reported Feb 21 2010 - Updated Feb 21 2010 - 1 Documents

Divisive past

Plans for a museum in Rudyard Kipling's Mumbai home commemorating the writer have been shelved following concerns that a memorial to the renowned imperialist and chronicler of the British Raj would be politically unpalatable. But is it time for Indians ... [Published Feb 21 2010 by BBC]

Entities: Rudyard Kipling, India, Aravind Adiga, British Raj

First Reported Jan 03 2010 - Updated Jan 03 2010 - 1 Documents

'Is there anything to celebrate?'

G G Parikh, then 18 and a student at St Xavier’s College, heard Mahatma Gandhi speak at Gowalia Tank in Grant Road. The meeting, organised by the All India Congress Committee (AICC), passed the stirring Quit India Resolution, which proved to be the last ... [Published Jan 03 2010 by Times of India]

Entities: Freedom Fighters, Mumbai, Indian National Congress

First Reported Dec 06 2009 - Updated Dec 06 2009 - 1 Documents

Yes, Minister&..

Union Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh has rightly observed that our cities are the worlds dirtiest and if there was a Nobel Prize for dirt and filth, India would win it hands down.As much as 4 per cent of our countrys GDP is lost due to ... [Published Dec 06 2009 by The Hindu]

Entities: Sultan Ahmed, State Bank of India, Imperial Bank of India, Dariba (India), New Delhi (India)

First Reported Dec 05 2009 - Updated Dec 05 2009 - 1 Documents

Men Do The Silliest Things

Ian Buruma's New Yorker piece on the attempts of Dutch liberals to manage Muslim immigration in the Netherlands has one particularly interesting nugget. The piece is not online but Buruma--while narrating some history--notes that relations were relatively ... [Published Dec 05 2009 by The New Republic - The Plank Feed]

Entities: Ian Buruma, East India Company, British Raj, Amritsar

First Reported Nov 20 2009 - Updated Nov 20 2009 - 1 Documents

New Delhi to ban horse-drawn carriages

New Delhi's 'tonga', the romantic horse-drawn carriages popularised during the British Raj and beloved by Indian wedding couples, are to be phased out of use. Councillors in the Indian capital have decided that the city's 232 tongas are now a traffic ... [Published Nov 20 2009 by Telegraph]

Entities: New Delhi (India), British Raj, Ruskin Bond

First Reported Oct 21 2009 - Updated Oct 21 2009 - 1 Documents

Time to give governors five-year term: P.C. Alexander

CHENNAI: The Governor may have a beautiful home, but he has no security over how long he gets to live there. It is a most unkind way of keeping such a high dignitary, said former Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra governor P.C. Alexander, pointing out the paradox ... [Published Oct 21 2009 by The Hindu]

Entities: S. Muthiah, Nawab Mohammed Abdul Ali, Raj Bhavans, Chennai, Surjit Singh Barnala

Quotes

...When I was in Europe and the US, my musician friends often asked me "Is it a ritual in India that you record all female artistes before puberty? Why are all the female voices so thin? Why is there no dimension to it?"

'Most Bengalis in the establishment just hated me' [rediff.com - Mar 18 2010]

...Ltd, a global infrastructure consultancy firm that in June 2007 studied Andheri's water supply with money from the World Bank, said in his report: "There is enough water for a 24-hour supply, but it is wasted due to the many leaks in its old pipe network. "

50 ruptures in past 5 years [Yahoo! India - Mar 17 2010]

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Delhi's endangered heritage [GlobalPost - Mar 08 2010]
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Nothing common and there is no wealth [Indian Express - Mar 04 2010]
The last of the Labour titans [The Hindu - Mar 04 2010]
Veteran Hur mujahid dies unsung at 110 [DAWN Group - Mar 02 2010]
Terror dents Delhi's free spirit [Asia Times Online - Mar 02 2010]
IRRELEVANT BATTLES [The Stirrer - Mar 02 2010]
Making Indo-Pak talks successf... [Financial Daily - Mar 01 2010]
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French Lessons in Londonistan [National Interest - Feb 23 2010]
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Diamonds, spies and betrayal: Maharajah Duleep ... [Daily Express - Feb 22 2010]
The East India Company is Now Truly Indian [Khaleej Times - Feb 21 2010]
Divisive past [BBC - Feb 21 2010]
Tamil Nadu lost nothing in Mullaperiyar case: K... [New Delhi Pioneer - Feb 20 2010]
Vanishing thirst [Calcutta Telegraph - Feb 16 2010]
Should tourists return to Burma? [Guardian.co.uk - Feb 15 2010]
Roots of terrorism and extremism go back to Bri... [Individual.com - Feb 15 2010]
Electric trains [The Hindu - Feb 14 2010]

Blogs

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FREEDOM FIRST, and China last [Wired: Beyond the Beyond - Feb 28 2010] *Rather a lot of blather here. Goes on and on and on, and the quality varies. However, it’s of great interest to see that self-appointed Indian military strategy ...
Balochistan is no Bangladesh [IntelliBriefs - Jan 20 2010] http://idsa.in/idsacomments/Balochist ... SareenJanuary 19, 2010The separatist sentiment sweeping through the province of Balochistan ...
Eric Margolis: Obama's Surge [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Dec 08 2009] There were no surprises last week in President Barack Obama's historic speech at West Point. His decision to enlarge and prolong the war in Afghanistan ...
Men Do The Silliest Things [The New Republic - The Plank Feed - Dec 05 2009] Ian Buruma's New Yorker piece on the attempts of Dutch liberals to manage Muslim immigration in the Netherlands has one particularly interesting nugget. The piece ...
The Indian Community in Myanmar [IntelliBriefs - Nov 28 2009] Guest Column by Dr. V. Suryanarayan The Indian Community in Myanmar is one of those forgotten children of Mother India. The tragic status of the community has not ...