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...freeway, and finding enough water to drink is an annual battle for tens of millions. (Oh, and there are no real-life plans for an Indian lunar landing.) There's a handy Hindu concept to explain these paradoxes. Maya means wonder, as in Mayanagri (city of dreams), the Hindi nickname for Bombay. It also denotes a willful fantasy - of the kind, for example, that would have a U.S. President last week expressing his "joy" at seeing the new India while in Delhi, a city only half-supplied with sewers. Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Western civilization. "That...
...suspects, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Wassam Mazloum, have all been living in the Toledo area for over a year, according to the indictment, and had studied how to build explosives and suicide vests with the intention of travel to Iraq to engage in "holy war" by attacking American soldiers. The men raised money for the operation, considered setting up a front charity organization and used an indoor shooting range for target practice, said the indictment. The men had jobs that provided potential cover for traveling to the Middle East. El-Hindi works as a recruiter...
...just taken over New York City's tony Pierre Hotel; software giants such as Infosys and Wipro are scouting for acquisitions abroad. Then there's the cultural dimension to the new confidence. Three Indian restaurants in London now have Michelin stars; Bollywood is suddenly fashionable; and remixes of Hindi film songs play in Europe's trendiest clubs. In some ways, Lakshmi Mittal is the symbol of the new Indian confidence. Even a decade ago, who would have dreamt that the third richest man in the world would hold an Indian passport? Integral to the way in which Indians regard Mittal...
...Gilman scholarships, which offer grants of up to $5,000 for study abroad, according to the Harvard funding website.President Bush also announced a plan at the summit last Thursday to allot $114 million to the National Security Language Initiative, which would promote the study of Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, and Farsi, among other languages.A related proposal, which would also emphasize the study of languages critical to national security, is part of a bill currently awaiting Congressional approval. The Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant would give some college students majoring in selected languages an additional...
...celebration also included readings translated into English, followed by hymns and prayers in Hindi, Kanada, Sanskrit, Gujarathi, and Telugu to reflect the varied languages spoken by members of Dharma...