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Japanese rush for English' education 4 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... an English-language education, Japan now lags behind India, China and South Korea in sending students ... recipe for the decline of Japanese,” wrote novelist Minae Mizumura, who recently caused a stir ...
Sunday Celebrity:Transgender Noori is a 'leading light' 4 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... biggest victory of the gay rights in India.” standard, the world ‘university’she was thrown in ... inspiring that it was published as a novel by none other than Su. Samudhram, former All ...
India's divisive backwardness politics 4 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... particularly the imperial interests. But when independent India persists with this policy in different forms and ... among the general category need affirmative support; parts of the general category irrespective of caste and ... compensation in industries such as corporate houses, films and sports, so that the luxury of ...
Sharia law UK: Mail on Sunday gets exclusive access to a British Muslim court 4 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... Western influences, from alcohol, music, television and movies, are banned. It is a rigid prescription ... softly spoken, grey-bearded scholar was born in Pakistan, studied in Saudi Arabia and worked in East ... either in madrassas or religious schools in India and Pakistan, or are graduates of Islamic ...
Striking opposites 4 Jul 2009 22:01 GMT
... 21:20 GMT, Saturday, 4 July 2009 22:20 UK ... model showed the freedom of Bangladesh from Pakistan in 1971, and included prone figures half-painted ... the water to the sides. Then the music started. Girls danced on stage, everyone bopped ...
Islamist Winds Chill Pakistani Artists 4 Jul 2009 22:00 GMT
... Winds of Islamism Make Pakistani Artists Shiver The Art Scene in the ... as theaters have been bombed, interrupted, and musicians targeted, Mr. Khan has learned firsthand about ...
Hotel workers banking on Western tourists 4 Jul 2009 21:11 GMT
... the ruins of Babylon, Fahmi said. American filmmaker Gwendolyn Cates, who is staying at REO ... at REO Hillah while she makes a movie about Iraqi cultural heritage, said there is ... improving,” Fahmi said. “People from France or India or any other country that has Muslims might come ...
Tourism industry thriving in Iraq 4 Jul 2009 21:11 GMT
... NAJAF, Iraq — It may be hard for ... from places like Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and even Canada. According to the ... he expects more business once the airport starts night operations. “This airport will take business ...
Actress Lisa Ray wanted to be a journalist 4 Jul 2009 21:11 GMT
... widow Kalyani in Deepa Mehta's critically acclaimed film 'Water', wanted to be a journalist but ... first modelling assignment. She later moved to India to seek better opportunities. The actress was first noticed ... in my outlook to be in Bollywood movies," Ray told leading British-Asian publication Asian Woman ...
Crucians recount the glorious events of July 3, 1848 4 Jul 2009 20:51 GMT
... bedroom furniture in an exhibit at the museum. The exhibit, which is called "Sleeping with ... could produce sugar with cheap labor in India better than they could with enslaved Africans in ...
What next for gaydom? 4 Jul 2009 20:51 GMT
... grew up in these small villages in India and it wasn't even in their vocabulary. ... celluloid and in our culture," British Indian film-maker Pratibha Parmar told DNA. Back in 1991, ... said the film-maker who's been with her Pakistani partner Shaheen for over 15 years. "My ...
Womenomics: Llessons for the FM 4 Jul 2009 20:50 GMT
... But despite these pressures, many women in India not only do a good job tightening the purse ... also cut back on eating out, watching movies and vacations. "I am looking up dadima ...
MJ Akbar: Does justice matter after 17 yrs? 4 Jul 2009 20:50 GMT
... The first inquiry into the demolition of the Babri ... of an associate MP. He watched a film - live footage of the whole episode, ... wahin banayenge! and Mussalman ke do sthaan, Pakistan ya kabristan! No one hid anything: We ...
Reema Khan's life is so beautiful 4 Jul 2009 20:50 GMT
... Andrew Stephenson - BollySpice.com 4 Jul 2009 Pakistan's top actress Reema Khan has been making her latest film Life Is So Beautiful / Kitne Haseen ... Aishwarya Rai when I went over to India," she says, "We have a lot in ...
Homosexuality is not a virtue 4 Jul 2009 20:50 GMT
... Earlier, there was no state law in India to punish homosexuality. Does that mean that the Hindu ... Historian Devdutt Pattanaik says that in Hindu literature ‘though not part of the mainstream, the ... of the law, polygamy prevails in different parts of India. Even polyandry exists in certain communities in ...