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Sana believes she has earned the right to think of herself as a citizen of the world--she has been to the U.S. and has an expansive, tolerant outlook on global affairs. But it has been sorely tested this year. She comes from a line of Punjabi soldiers (her mother is the daughter of a famous army general, her father an economist), and she inherited the dark, piercing eyes of a hunter, and a stoic determination she would need in the months after Sept. 11, when she felt caught between Islam and America, the two worlds she loves. Rising Islamic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muslim Teen: MTV or the Muezzin | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...dancing, but the groom is an engineer who lives in Houston. Extended family fly in from Muscat and Melbourne, while the striving, fast-talking wedding planner keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt in the morning and the sari at night. It's just the way we live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Local Is The New Global | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...also killed - were recovered the next morning by NA troops. They had been shot multiple times and their bodies had been stripped of their belongings. According to General Hassan his troops found 13 Taliban bodies when they went to get the journalists' bodies - these Taliban "were Chechen, Punjabi [Pakistani] and Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyewitness: Three Journalists Killed in Afghanistan | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...East," says Jennifer Seeto, regional sales marketing manager for the channel, which began beaming its border-busting images in 1994. Star veejay Asha Gill personifies the global look. When asked what her ethnic heritage is, Gill, a Malaysian citizen, simply shrugs. "Oh, who knows," she says. "I'm half Punjabi, mixed with some English, a little French and dribs and drabs of God knows what else." The 29-year-old speaks crisp British English, fluent Malay, and a smidgen of Punjabi. She grew up in a Kuala Lumpur neighborhood that was mostly Chinese, attended an English-speaking school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eurasian Invasion | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...also the anniversary of the founding of the Sikh brotherhood and a time to celebrate the harvest with wild Bhangra dancing. To an ever-changing beat, the strenuous dance portrays life in the fields, moving from plowing to sowing to weeding to reaping. Catch the festivities in any Punjabi village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forget Eggs. Try Asia's Wild Eastertime Fetes | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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