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David Rai: A Farmer’s View on Food Shortage

By kamla bhatt • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Featured, Life
 
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Higher food prices, global shortage of food, rationing of rice in the USA. The global food crisis dubbed as the silent tsunami has dominated headlines since the start of the year.
What is driving this food shortage that some analysts have pointed is the creation of a perfect storm stemming from famine, demand for biofuels, […]



Celebrating Thanksgiving

By kamla bhatt • Nov 24th, 2006 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, New Delhi, New York, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA
 
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Thanksgiving is a traditional US holiday that is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. We went on a culinary journey around the US and India to find out how people celebrate Thanksgiving in their homes.
We spoke to four different people about how they celebrate Thanksgiving and what regional flavors they bring to their table […]



Divali Around The World

By kamla bhatt • Oct 21st, 2006 • Category: Diaspora, India, Life, New Delhi, New York, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, USA
 
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We bring you different voices and perspectives from around the world on how Divali is celebrated. We speak to Roshni Patel in New Jersey; MumbaiGirl in London; Anjana Mohan in St. Louis and Surbi Sahani in New York.
Roshini is a student in New York.
MumbaiGirl is a lawyer, who lives in London.
Anjana Mohan is an architect […]



Blogs Inaccessible in India

By kamla bhatt • Jul 18th, 2006 • Category: India, Internet & Telecom, Life
 
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Blogs hosted by blogspot, typepad and some websites have been inaccessible in India for the past couple of days.
We talk to Amit Agarwal, Neha Viswanathan, Jace and Suresh Ramasubramanian to find more about how and why this happened.The first inkling that these sites were inaccessible came from Dina Mehta and Mridula Dwivedi, and over the […]