Dance! - my new flickr set on dancing in the Americas

The Americas host many different cultures on its vast territory.  I have been able to travel through many different countries in the Americas and photograph many different cultural activities.  One of the...

Wallowa Lake and the City of Joseph

A trip to Northeast Oregon is an opportunity to witness where one of history's tragic stories begins. This is where the Nez Perce Indians spent their last free days, before going to a reservation. Today, among the...

Davis Cup: Romania 2 India 0

"India’s chances of making it to the Davis Cup World Group received a jolt on Friday when their biggest singles hope, Somdev Devvarman, went down 3-6, 1-6, 0-6 to Romania’s Victor Hanescu in the second singles of the play-off at the Bucuresti Stadium in Bucharest....

Malaysian Gov to punish official for racist remarks

In reaction to comments made by a ruling official, Ahmad Ismail, against Malaysia's minority Chinese and Indians, prompted a swift governemnt reaction.  Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad promised to punish him for...

Your God or mine? Orissa burning

"Not many Indians would have known where Kandhamal is on the country's map or even that it is a part of the state of Orissa. But Kandhamal is burning and the world has sat up to take note.For nearly two weeks, Dalit...

Cat Man - the human 'tiger' who enjoys climbing trees and eats raw meat every...

"As obsessions go this has to be one of the weirdest known to man - someone who would voluntarily file his teeth, split his lip and undergo extensive facial surgery - to turn himself into a 'human tiger'.Dennis...

Number of poor in India has gone up: World Bank

There is a surge in the  no of Indian billionaire every year in the forbes list  but same time the no of poor people are also increasing. In a shocking revelation the World Bank had said that no of Poor...

The Exiles: Film about Native Americans Exiled in Their Own Land Revived

Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...

Americans Not as Obnoxious as they used to be. The French Now Lead

Remember the tightwad tourist whose baggy shorts, frequent complaining and shouted questions about why none of the locals spoke any English made the ugly American the world's Visitor From Hell? Well, it's time for...

Seven Indians among top 100 intellectuals

""Anintellectual is someone whose mind watches itself, said French-Algerianwriter-philosopher Albert Camus; turns out that someone is keepingtrack of intellectuals too. The latest issue of the influential Foreign Policy magazine has identified the world's Top 100 "public...

More money to be made

Call it hindsight, call it post race capping, call just plain rubbish but Wednesday nights Major League Baseball game between the Cleveland Indians and the hapless Kansas City Royals was a gambling bargain. The...

IPL Cricket Highlights: Indian Premier League T20 Mumbai vs Bangalore

IPL HighlightsA thriller that went down to the last couple of balls. With Mumbai batting first without injured Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh stood in as captain as first Jayasuriya and then Robin Uthappa and Shaun Pollock (in a last gasp blitz) set up 165. There was some...

17 Indians in WEF's Global Young Leaders list

As many as 17 Indians -- including Wadia Group chairman Jeh Wadia, SKS Microfinance CEO Vikram Akula, Bhatia Enterprises chairman Sabeer Bhatia, music composer A R Rahman, and sitar player Anoushka Shankar -- have been named the Young Global Leaders for 2008, in a list...

Indians second-most romantic lot in Asia: survey

Indians second-most romantic lot in Asia: surveyIf celebrating Valentine's Day is any measure of being romantic, Indians are Asia's second-most romantic lot with 68.5 per cent of them showing affection for their partners on this day, a survey has found.But India is the only...

Native activists release map of new nation Lakota

"Lakota Oyate, a Native American activist group that just a couple of weeks ago declared the sovereignty of Lakota Sioux land in the north-central U.S., has issued a map outlining the newly free and independent nation of Lakota. It's shown below, click on image for a...

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