Word: hindy
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...surprise non-Indians to know that Indian cinema has always been more than just Bollywood, as Hindi cinema is popularly known. In fact, true Bollywood movies make up only a fifth of the 1,000 or so films made in India every year. Film industries in the south - Tamil, Telegu, Malayali - are huge, as is the Bhojpuri industry in central India. India has also long produced first-rate art films, from the work the legendary Satyajit Ray to contemporary maestros like Govind Nihalani and Shyam Benegal. Critic Chakravorty says the new brand of cinema caters to the viewer...
Secondshaadi.com ("shaadi" means marriage in Hindi and a number of other south Asian languages) gets around this problem by targeting the very people other sites find unpopular. "The idea was to attack a niche that had not been done," says Pahwa. "Divorce rates are going up in India and a lot of people are getting divorced at a very young age - even 35 or so. It's wrong to tell them that they can't get married again...
...Asian or "other." So just as the Church went on a global hunt for priests in years past to tend to the flock in their own language, the archdiocese here is trying to recruit a U.N. corps of clergy by mining local neighborhoods filled with Korean and Chinese, Urdu, Hindi and Polish, French, German, Italian and all manner of Spanish and African dialects...
...democratic aspirations to simply voting at the polls. They have been behind a whole host of social movements, from the rise of the lower castes and environmental activism to demands for regional autonomy and the growth of feminism. Large sections on modern Indian culture tackle topics as diverse as Hindi films, regional-language poets and national radio-and illustrate how they have all played their role in deepening the conception of nationhood...
...more than than the Hindi language that Gere did not understand: His dance move and smooch on the cheek went way beyond what is acceptable, at least according to India's Hindu nationalists who claim that Shetty has dishonored her culture. Protestors burned Gere and Shetty in effigy, and now plan to lodge a complaint against Shetty with the police. "How much can you degrade yourself because you are being paid money to make an appearance?" asked Sumit Mishra, of the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist BJP party in the state of Bhopal. As a foreigner, said Mishra, Gere...