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Category: Perspectives
Why hasn’t Indian Olympic performance gone up with India’s economic rise?
One night, in mid-March, I went to bed and found I could not sleep. I lay awake, overly aware of my heartbeat, trying to remember my last cup of coffee, nervous that if I did not get to sleep soon, I might never rest again. My pulse counterproductively increased ...
Celebrating 25 Years
Please accept our congratulations on India Currents’ editorial integrity and business acumen. It is such a pleasure to receive it every month and notice the quality, diversity and relevance of the articles.
Birendra Prasad, CanadaTrain to Nowhere
I completely agree with Rameysh Ramdas’s views on ...
No, to California’s High Speed RailThe California Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown have put us in the national headlines with the decision to move forward with high speed rail construction—“California’s Crazy Train” screamed the NY Post, “Financial Suicide” said The Week and Professor Rick Geddes ...
Alfred Nobel (1842—1919) was a Swedish chemist whose initial claim to fame was based on his invention of the explosives nitroglycerin and dynamite for use during wars. He amassed a large fortune and donated most of it to setting up the Nobel Foundation. The foundation was to reward ...
Independence Day in Lincoln: After a dinner of Nebraska beef, served with grilled kale, patatas bravas, and mushrooms, soaked in red wine, we take our bowls of red-white-and-blue ice-cream (the cream vanilla, striped and starred with blueberries and cherry compote) out onto the porch and watch the fireworks. They ...
A decade ago, when cell phones began appearing in streets and cafes, I witnessed the change from the balloons of inner thought to the blurbs of the spoken word. This was a bit scary because it became incontestable how shallow we truly are— “then she said, then he said ...
Mango (mæengaeu)— n, pl -goes, -gos1. a tropical Asian anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Mangifera indica, cultivated in the tropics for its fruit2. the ovoid edible fruit of this tree, having a smooth rind and sweet juicy orange-yellow flesh[C16: via Portuguese from Malay manga, from Tamil mankay mango tree + kay fruit]
When I was a little girl, I loved adventure stories. There was a Marathi magazine named Chandoba, which means "moon," and in this magazine, I discovered a faraway, magical world. The first time I read about Sindbad, I was mesmerized. The magazine had colorful illustrations and I remember one ...
Why hasn’t Indian Olympic performance gone up with India’s economic rise?
One night, in mid-March, I went to bed and found I could not sleep. I lay awake, overly aware of my heartbeat, trying to remember my last cup of coffee, nervous that if I did not get to sleep soon, I might never rest again. My pulse counterproductively increased ...
Celebrating 25 Years
Please accept our congratulations on India Currents’ editorial integrity and business acumen. It is such a pleasure to receive it every month and notice the quality, diversity and relevance of the articles.
Birendra Prasad, CanadaTrain to Nowhere
I completely agree with Rameysh Ramdas’s views on ...
No, to California’s High Speed RailThe California Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown have put us in the national headlines with the decision to move forward with high speed rail construction—“California’s Crazy Train” screamed the NY Post, “Financial Suicide” said The Week and Professor Rick Geddes ...
Alfred Nobel (1842—1919) was a Swedish chemist whose initial claim to fame was based on his invention of the explosives nitroglycerin and dynamite for use during wars. He amassed a large fortune and donated most of it to setting up the Nobel Foundation. The foundation was to reward ...
Independence Day in Lincoln: After a dinner of Nebraska beef, served with grilled kale, patatas bravas, and mushrooms, soaked in red wine, we take our bowls of red-white-and-blue ice-cream (the cream vanilla, striped and starred with blueberries and cherry compote) out onto the porch and watch the fireworks. They ...
A decade ago, when cell phones began appearing in streets and cafes, I witnessed the change from the balloons of inner thought to the blurbs of the spoken word. This was a bit scary because it became incontestable how shallow we truly are— “then she said, then he said ...
Mango (mæengaeu)— n, pl -goes, -gos1. a tropical Asian anacardiaceous evergreen tree, Mangifera indica, cultivated in the tropics for its fruit2. the ovoid edible fruit of this tree, having a smooth rind and sweet juicy orange-yellow flesh[C16: via Portuguese from Malay manga, from Tamil mankay mango tree + kay fruit]
When I was a little girl, I loved adventure stories. There was a Marathi magazine named Chandoba, which means "moon," and in this magazine, I discovered a faraway, magical world. The first time I read about Sindbad, I was mesmerized. The magazine had colorful illustrations and I remember one ...
