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...Marshall who is now trying to get to know the ins and outs of Hollywood. After graduation, Franklin traveled to India for a year and a half with the George Peabody Gardner traveling fellowship. “I participated in Total Film, a project that teaches about 1,000 Indian kids how to make movies. I worked in Bollywood, and filmed a documentary on the human hair trade called ‘100% HAIR,’” he says. Franklin is poised to become one of the “gatekeepers” of Hollywood, though...
...Ultimately, my newfound discovery eluded me because, up until last time I checked over a Thanksgiving meal, she fervently denies it. “I’m not white,” she maintains defensively. “I’m Hispanic. I’m Indian.”The nuance isn’t entirely too clear to passersby who see my mother’s hand entwined with my father’s as they walk down the streets of our ethnic enclave. (That’s Miami, or Hialeah for those in the know...
...location at the edge of Harvard Yard was itself historic—more than three and a half centuries ago, Harvard built the brick Indian College on the other side of the Yard, at present-day Matthews Hall, to aid in “the education of English and Indian youth...
...then again in 1998. That behavior led the major nuclear powers to refrain from helping India's nuclear program, on the grounds that this program might help Delhi enhance its weapons program. But this year, to the horror of anti-nuclear campaigners around the world, President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed that India should get access to U.S. civil nuclear technology and fuel, in return for opening its civilian nuclear facilities to inspection - India's nuclear weapons site would remain off-limits. In effect, the U.S. had accepted India's argument that its military and civilian nuclear...
...Specific gripes aside, the critics appear to share a belief that the U.S. has impugned India's pride and independence. There has long been a consensus in the Indian political mainstream that nuclear weapons are India's right, and that Western nuclear powers are hypocritical for seeking to punish or hinder it for building weapons systems that the established nuclear powers have shown no inclination to give up. This sense of wounded dignity is captured in a cartoon in Monday's Times of India, depicting Manmohan at the "nuclear high table," but sitting in a baby's high chair beside...