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India, in a New Light

A warts-and-all look at a democratic success story.
By Sumit Ganguly
Newsweek International
Feb. 26, 2007 issue - Suddenly, India
is on everyone’s mind. Hardly a day
passes without some public discussion
about jobs being outsourced there, the
growing shortage of hotel rooms in
Bangalore, Indian firms seeking to buy
European competitors or an Indian no-
velist who has snapped up a hefty ad-
vance from an American publisher. Yet
less than 20 years ago, the few stories
about India published in major Western
outlets were bemoaning its economic
woes, diplomatic isolation and political
turmoil. Indeed, some latter-day Cas-
sandras were predicting its imminent
dissolution, conjuring for India the
same fate that had engulfed the other
large-scale multiethnic experiments in
the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Not
only has India defied these dire predic-
tions, it is poised on the brink of major
power status.
Edward Luce goes a long way toward
explaining India’s almost inexhaustible
resilience in his knowledgeable, witty
and sympathetic account, “In Spite
of the Gods: The Strange Rise of
Modern India” (383 pages. Doubleday.
$26). Though Luce’s views of India’s
emerging social, political and economic
landscape are hardly revolutionary, the
former South Asian Bureau Chief for The
Financial Times deftly weaves together
keen observations, telling anecdotes
and scrupulous reportage. From the
tale of a lone, imaginative bureaucrat
struggling against the forces of a
callous bureaucracy to Hindu zealots
professing the therapeutic properties
of cow dung, Luce’s India is endlessly
fascinating.
His account highlights aspects of the
country that explain its recent spurt of
economic growth and continued political
stability, such as the ability to hold fair
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Crossette discusses India, news coverage
By Ben Weller
March 8, 2007 Crossette shares
views with journalism group
Barbara Crossette had to fight to get
her first overseas assignment at the
New York Times.
“I lobbied to go back to India after the
Fulbright as a Times correspondent,”
she says. “(Then-editor) Abe Rosenthal
thought it was absurd.”
Eventually she did make it back and
became one of the most accomplished
American foreign correspondents
covering South and South-East Asia. The
former Times bureau chief in Bangkok
and New Delhi offered some advice to
aspiring foreign correspondents when
she spoke at the School of Journalism
at a luncheon on Wednesday.
While acknowledging that cutbacks
and the elimination of foreign bureaus
at some major newspapers make it
more difficult for American journalists
to work overseas, she thinks that with
enterprise and some language skills,
journalists may still be able to create
their own foreign beat “by just going
and throwing themselves in.”
“It’s a combination of having some
journalism experience and also just
being there,” she said.
According to Crossette, cell phones
and e-mail can make overseas reporting
easier, but also pose new problems
intrepid reporters.
“With instant communication,
there’s more contact and control from
the desk.”
When she was reporting in India,
she said, she sometimes ignored orders
from her editors and struck out on
her own to follow a lead. That is how
she came to be with Rajiv Ghandi, the
former prime minister of India, when
he was killed by a suicide bomber in
1991. She was the last reporter to
interview him, and her coverage of his
assassination earned her the George
Polk Award for foreign reporting.
While cutbacks in foreign coverage
concern her deeply, she thinks there
still is a need and a place for foreign
correspondents, and newspapers will
eventually realize that.
“They are going to have to fill up
the slack where there aren’t foreign
correspondents anymore,” she said.
Former New York Times foreign
correspondent Barbara Crossette
warned that diminishing news coverage
of international affairs will lead readers
to have distorted and one-sided images
of a country or an issue.Journalists get
flak — good journalists even more so.
Barbara Crossette is no stranger to
this rule. Since the 1970s, she has cast
a critical and unflinching eye at India,
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where she first visited as a Fulbright
Scholar and later worked as a foreign
correspondent for the New York Times.
In the process, she’s gained what she
calls “a reputation for being hard on
India.”
Crossette visited Indiana University
Wednesday to talk to students and
faculty at the School of Journalism in
the morning and again at the India
Studies House in the evening. She
talked about the problems India faces
and the importance of consistent and
informed foreign news reportage. Her
talk was co-sponsored by the India
Studies Program and the School of
Journalism.
Sumit Ganguly, director of the India
Studies Institute at IU, invited Crossette
to speak, he said, because of “the
significance of India to American foreign
policy and the lack of knowledge of
India in the U.S.”
He said it was necessary “to provide
an accurate picture — warts and all”
and that Crossette’s reporting provides
that picture of India.
Crossette talked about the vast
potential of India, the world’s largest
democracy, and the enormous problems
faced by its population. Nearly 80
percent of India’s 1.1 billion people live
on less than $2 a day, and 26 percent
live in”“abject poverty,” by the Indian
government’s own estimates.
“Here’s this country with all this
potential and it keeps stumbling on all
these internal political problems that
people don’t see from the outside,”
she said.
While the problems are widely
understood internally, she said, news
audiences in the United States get
only a partial, romanticized view of the
country.
That kind of coverage applies not
just to India but to the developing
world at large, she argued. She pointed
to a number of troubling trends in U.S.
newspaper coverage of foreign affairs.
The first is the simple lack of it.
“Thenumberofforeigncorrespondents
is plummeting,” she said.
Without people on the ground
providing sustained and informed
coverage, she said, readers are unable
to make sense of the news that does
make it into the paper, and they lose
interest.
“You need continuity to build an
appetite among readers for foreign
news,” she said.
Editors pose another problem in
Former New York Times
foreign correspondent
Barbara Crossette warned
that diminishing news
coverage of international
affairs will lead readers to
have distorted and one-
sided images of a country
or an issue.Journalists get
flak — good journalists
even more so.
Crossette’s view. They often want top-
down journalism, where reporters
go to official sources for information
and quotes instead of going out into
the field and reporting on the lives
of ordinary people. Editors may also
have preconceptions and romanticized
images of a country and not want to
hear stories that conflict with that view.
“I couldn’t even sell some of these
things to American editors,” she said
of her reporting, “because they had
romantic views of India from previous
reports.”
Eventually, Crossette warned,
“journalists begin to self-select” and
take to following trends and fads in
reporting on certain subjects. The result
is that readers end up with a distorted
and one-sided image of a country or an
issue.
Journalism senior Andrew Prinsen
has traveled in India and he attended
Wednesday’s talk at the India Studies
House. He came to hear Crossette
talk, he said, because he came back
from India with his own questions.
He appreciated Crossette’s critical
perspective on the problems faced by
India and the rest of the developing
world. “I think it’s always great to look
at what’s going right,” he said, “but
not at the expense of forgetting about
what’s going wrong or continuing to
figure out ways to make it better.”
Ben Weller is a master’s student
at the Indiana University School of
Journalism. He can be reached at
wbweller@indiana.edu.
STRANGE
BUT TRUE
By Samantha Weaver
On a per-capita basis, more
Speedo bathing suits are sold in
Iceland than anywhere else in the
world.
Hedy Lamarr was best known
as a siren of the silver screen in the
1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, but she was
more than just a pretty face. In 1942,
in the middle of her busy film career,
she, along with composer George
Antheil, found time to invent and
patent what they called a “Secret
Communication System,” which
was an ahead-of-its-time version of
frequency hopping. In 1997, three
years before her death, Lamarr was
honored by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation for her contribution to
the technology.
You may not have realized it when
you were drinking that martini, but,
as a species, the olive used as a
garnish is older than you as a human
being.
Interestingly, it was noted American
architect Frank Lloyd Wright who
made the following observation: “A
man is a fool if he drinks before he
reaches the age of 50, and a fool if
he doesn’t afterward.”
If, like me, you grew up watching
“The Brady Bunch” on TV, you’ll
remember Alice, the Brady’s
inimitable housekeeper. Ann B.
Davis, the actress who played Alice,
insisted that when any scene was
being filmed in which her character
was cooking, there had to be some
kind of food in the pot.
During the Middle Ages, it
was thought that artichokes had
aphrodisiac qualities.
It’s been reported that a law
in Providence, R.I., prohibits any
retailer from selling a toothbrush and
toothpaste to the same person on a
Sunday.
A now-unknown company once
put caramel-and-prune ice cream on
the market.
Thought for the Day: “Any girl can
be glamorous; all you have to do is
stand still and look stupid.” -- Hedy
Lamarr
(c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.
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India, in a New Light
elections and cope with alternations of
power—rare in the developing world.
Yet he rightly emphasizes that India’s
prosperity was hobbled in part by the
government’s own flawed economic
policies, which strangled innovation,
stifled entrepreneurship and stunted
rapid growth. And thanks to a state-
led economic strategy, more than
26 percent of its population is still
consigned to abject poverty, more than
50 years after India’s independence.
While lauding India’s ability
to survive—indeed thrive—as a
multiethnic and multireligious society,
Luce exhibits little patience for virulent
Hindu nationalism. He pointedly tracks
the rise of the BJP over the past 15
years, underscoring the danger that
this ethnic nationalist party poses to
the stability of India’s plural society.
Luce’s book, however, does not
confine itself to matters of high politics
and economics. He devotes considerable
time to describing the hope that
democracy, with all its shortcomings,
offers to India’s poor and otherwise
marginalized lower castes. In relating
the story of Aruna Roy, an upper-caste
former government administrator who
left behind a comfortable life to lead
a peasant advocacy group, Luce vividly
illustrates the growth of much of India’s
social movements. Groups such as Roy’s
Organization for the Empowerment of
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Workers and Peasants have galvanized
India’s upper castes in tackling myriad
social ills and failures of governance.
Though the scope of their efforts may
be limited, they have nevertheless
helped spawn a form of citizen activism
that puts to shame many advanced
industrial democracies.
Is India finally out of the woods? Or
is the triumphalism so evident in its
gleaming upper-middle-class enclaves
premature? Luce’s book, despite
its mostly upbeat outlook, strikes a
cautionary agenda: India must tackle its
seemingly endemic poverty, maintain
ethnic peace domestically, prevent
environmental collapse and improve
relations with its nettlesome neighbor,
Pakistan. As the author cogently
argues, India has repeatedly managed
to confound even its most dire critics.
Quoting Indian politician Arun Shourie,
he writes, “Governance is not golf; that
we are a democracy does not entitle
us to a handicap.” If it can rise to the
challenges it still faces, India will have
bested the gods.
Sumit Ganguly is a professor of
political science at Indiana University
in Bloomington and the author of
the forthcoming book “India Since
1980.”
© 2007 Newsweek, Inc.
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Subsidized or Free Healthcare
Dr. Vipin Kalia
As many of you in the communi-
ty have already noticed, the immigrant
population has significant difficulty in
accessing healthcare. Over the last two
years, I have received hundreds of calls,
especially from new immigrants who
have migrated here from California, the
west coast, or the east coast, expres-
sing their difficulty in accessing health-
care. It has been and continues to be
my desire to have universal access to
healthcare free of cost.
My underlying fundamental
philosophy is that whenever somebody
is thirsty, he or she should have access
to clean water; whenever somebody is
hungry he or she should have access
to good, quality food. Similarly, if
somebody is sick, he or she should have
access to good, quality healthcare.
If somebody is elderly, disabled, or
chronically sick and if his or her family
is unable to provide care for whatever
reasons, he or she should be taken care
of by the community at large. So far,
with this philosophy in mind, I have
never ever run into a single human
being who disagrees with the above
philosophy. However, the second part
of my philosophy is that if and when
somebody drinks from a reservoir or
well of water, he or she has a lifelong
obligation to nourish that well. It is
somewhat similar to going to a fruit tree
and enjoying the fruit of the tree. My
feeling is that once we enjoy the fruit
of the tree, then we all have a lifelong
obligation to water that tree and put
plant food to nourish the tree so that
it will continue to give fruit forever. I
would like everyone in our community
to help me plant a lifelong fruit tree
of comprehensive, free, universally
accessible healthcare without any
language or cultural barriers.
I feel this mission to be very
important. I get calls like the desperate
one on the 11th of Jan., 2007 from Mrs.
Sucha Singh that was recorded on my
cell phone voicemail and is available on
my internet website. She has given me
written permission to use her name for
this. Mr. Singh is a 41 year old Indian
gentleman who was having significant
difficulty breathing and extreme chest
pain. It is not that emergency rooms are
not available where all you have to do
is dial 911 and present yourself. They
were well aware they could use ERs for
this. They are self employed people in
the middle class and own a semi truck
and a house. They know that they will
not qualify for free healthcare and as a
result they would have to pay significant
amount of money where their financial
futures could be forever jeopardized.
On the same day, I got another call
from a friend of mine about another Mr.
Singh (but I had not gotten his formal
permission to use his name so I will leave
it at Mr. Singh). The second gentleman
also had significant chest pain in his left
side and blurry vision. His vision was in
jeopardy. He owns a local gas station
and has significant stake in his future,
however, he does not have any health
insurance. Both these people do not
qualify for free healthcare because of
the assets they have in their names.
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Both of these gentlemen were looking accomplish, why I hope to accomplish this and other projects I am involved
for a magical medical pill or magic these goals including details on my with that are available on my website
wand that would make all of their other passion, The United Web of at www.UnitedWebofLife.org .
lives’ problems go away including the Life, which is essentially healthcare Last but not least, my thanks to all
medical ones. However, as a General for elderly, disabled, and chronically those Super Volunteers who have been
Internal Medicine Doctor with a pen sick people, enabling them to live helping me along so far. God Bless those
and prescription pad in my pocket, the independent, dignified lives in their Super Volunteers for their efforts.
IU School of Medicine has not given own homes. The details of all of these
Vipin Kalia, M.D.
me that magic wand yet. Both of these programs will be visible on my website
Asst. Professor of Clinical Medicine@
gentlemen’s problems far exceed those and I encourage everyone to feel free
I.U.Med Center
that can be handled completely free. to visit it anytime.
Firm Chief, VA Med Center
I’m willing to provide my services for I also challenge everyone who has
President and CEO of HOPS Weight
free as I did on January the 12th at the eaten the fruit of free healthcare in
Loss Centers
local Gurdwara. However, both these the past and intends to eat it in the
people needed many more tests and future, not to wait like Mrs. Sucha GOOD HOUSEKEEPING TWO
many more specialized services. When Singh and Mr. Sucha Singh to find a The Drill on Oil
they were advised about those tests, free cardiology, a free radiology, and Wondering which oil to use to-
they were completely at a loss because a free healthcare hospital for you, but night? Olive oil is still a winner. It has big
they did not have insurance. come to me in advance so that we flavor, which means you can use less
Over the years I have received can arrange them far in advance for for more taste with fewer calories. And
hundreds of calls like these from fellow your day of sickness. Either way, I look since olive oil is predominantly mono-
Indians, immigrants and other Hoosiers forward to serving the uninsured and saturated fat, it’s heart healthy as well.
in the community and thousands of calls under insured in the community, and I When you’re looking for more neutral
like these from American patients. It is look forward to working with everyone tasting oil at a reasonable price, canola
surprising to me that 50 million people in planning for free healthcare for the oil is a standout. Not only is it rich in
in this country and a large percentage community. If you have any questions monounsaturated fat, it contains the
of the immigrant population especially, please feel free to give me a call at plant version of an omego-3 fatty acid.
suffers from carrying partial or under (317) 414- 4439. I may not get back Specialty oils -- like grape seed, sesame
insurance. It still behooves me why to you right away because of multiple and walnut -- are healthful but pricey,
people don’t take this as a common commitments including a full time job so use them in small quantities for an
interest problem and look for communal however more than likely by Sunday epicurean touch.
solution. evening I should be able to get back to (c) 2007 Hearst Communications,
However, since I continue getting you. If you have any more questions, Inc.
calls from people in desperate situations please feel free to give me a call and/or All rights reserved.
and I feel that I have skills to make if you would like to help organize this
a dent in this large problem so I am project, feel free to call for details on
going to go ahead and do exactly that.
The way I am intending to make a dent
is, that for starters, I am going to open
an almost free clinic (highly subsidized
by me). I will provide free healthcare to
those people who cannot afford any
healthcare whatsoever. However those
people who can afford some money,
would be expected to pay a minimal
charge of $35. This $35 is not intended
to make any money and would
not cover the cost of my secretary,
receptionist, and a nurse, or even the
rental of the building. I feel this is an
important enough problem and some
charitable effort has to be made.
However, I would charge a full price
to those people who require more
complicated care (The entire bill that
I would charge in my practice at VA
Hospital, IU Hospital or at Johnson
Memorial Hospital). Additionally, I am
going to offer a unique feature to spark
the universal interest to organize free
health care. I will charge an entire fee
that I charge in my practice up front.
However, patients can earn the entire
bill back ( minus $35) by helping
me organize a free comprehensive
healthcare clinic, first for the Indian
immigrants, then for everyone partially
insured and under insured in central
Indiana, then hopefully for the entire
country, and then eventually for the
entire world.
There are 4.5 to 5 billion people in
this world who cannot afford to see a
doctor and that is a travesty of justice.
All these philosophical motivations that
drive me to these goals will be available
for everyone to see on the internet
at www.UnitedWebOfLife.org . The
site includes details of what I hope to
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NOW HERE’S A TIP
By JoAnn Derson
“I recently had a hole in my
drywall. I was trying to patch it, but it
was quite big and the joint compound
kept falling through the hole. I ended
up stuffing a wad of aluminum foil in
the hole
to ‘catch’ the compound. It
worked for the quick fix, allowing the
compound to set up nicely. You can’t
even tell where the hole was now.” --
B.B., via e-mail
“To get our kids involved in healthy
nutrition, we made some fun magnets
for the fridge. There are an appropriate
number of magnets to represent
servings of fruits and veggies, with each
family member getting a different-color
magnet. We can’t have fats or sweets
unless we have had all our fruits and
vegetables for the day. It’s working so
far.” -- F.I. in Oregon
“Zip-lock bags work really well to
separate toys in the playroom. Anything
with small parts goes right into a
gallon-size bag, if it will fit. We have
most of our original board games still
in playing condition because of this.”
-- A.E. in Texas
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If you are trying to clean Venetian
blinds, try this: Cover both hands with
old socks, mist with cleaner and rub
away.
“Add a space for a washcloth on your
towel rack by adding an S-hook. If you
hang it off the towel bar, you can then
put your washcloth on the small hook
and the towel on the rack.” -- V.A. in
Indiana
“I have a laundry basket in my
guest-room closet for things I will
be donating or giving away. I keep
an envelope taped to the side of the
basket. Whenever I add something
to the basket, I write what it is on a
scrap of paper, then put the scrap in
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By Roger E. Hernandez
Drop in Interethnic
Marriage: Cheer or Jeer?
Once upon a time, there was
trouble if you married outside of your
ethnic group. It wasn’t until 1967 that
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled anti-mis-
cegenation laws unconstitutional, and
not everybody loved Lucy and Ricky.
Now, we are told, we might be
headed for trouble because people are
marrying inside their ethnic group.
The issue was raised by academics
Zhenchao Qian and Daniel Lichter in the
February issue of American Sociological
Review.
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Their paper claims that the number
of U.S.-born Hispanic men who married
non-Hispanic white women declined
from 35.3 percent in 1990 to 31.9
percent in 2000. And that the number
of native-born Asian-American men
in intermarriages with white women
declined too in the 1990s, from 50.2
percent to 45.8 percent. In contrast,
Census figures say that between 1970 and
1990, intermarriage figures increased.
Sociologists believe ethnic
intermarriage is one of the most
important hallmarks of assimilation
into the larger society. Does this decline
mean that Hispanics and Asians are
becoming more isolated?
Other studies on intermarriage show
there’s no need to fret. One paper
published in June 2005 in the journal
Population Bulletin said only 5 percent
of Hispanics with less than a high-school
education married outside the group,
compared with 28 percent of Hispanic
men and 35 percent of Hispanic women
with a college degree. Still another
study, sponsored by the Russell Sage
Foundation in 2003, said 57 percent
of third-generation Hispanics married
non-Hispanics.
So there you have it. The more
educated you are and the longer your
family has lived here, the more likely
you are to mix it up with someone from
a different background.
Perhaps surprisingly, says the Qian
and Lichter study, the number of blacks
who married whites went from 8.3
percent to 14.9 percent in the 1990s.
The rate is substantially lower than for
Hispanics and Asians, but it is growing,
not declining like it is for the other
“minorities.”
This draws attention to the central
difference among the groups lumped
together as “minorities.” The old
taboos against race mixing were aimed
at African-Americans much more than
at Asians or Hispanics
When it comes to Asian-white
marriages, today almost nobody thinks
twice about the mixed ethnicity of
actor Keanu Reeves or “Today” show
anchor Ann Curry. When it comes to
Hispanics, it’s not even accurate to
speak of “interracial” marriages, since
Hispanics may be of any race.
But when it comes to African-
Americans, the line was drawn so
sharply -- blacks here, whites there,
and don’t you dare cross -- that it is
still visible. This accounts for the much
lower intermarriage rate for blacks. Yet
the line is becoming blurred, which
accounts for the increase in black-white
marriages.
Ricky was allowed to love Lucy as
early as 1951. But it took until 1968 for
the first interracial kiss -- never mind
marriage -- on a U.S. television series,
when Lt. Uhura and Capt. Kirk touched
lips on “Star Trek.” Their smooch was
involuntary, forced by the telekinetic
powers of the nasty leaders of the
planet Platonius.
Roger Hernandez is a syndicated
columnist and writer-in-residence at
New Jersey Institute of Technology.
(c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.
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MOVIE REVIEWS
Director Ram Gopal Varma’s Nishabd,
which releases Friday, tells the
story of an intimate and unusual
relationship between an older man
and his daughter’s friend. Starring
Amitabh Bachchan and newcomer
Jiah Khan, Nishabd is said to be based
on Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial
novel “Lolita”. While Nakobov’s novel
is about a 44-year-old man fantasising
about a precocious 12-year-old girl,
Varma’s Nishabd is about a 60-year
old married man’s romance with
an 18-year-old girl. Amitabh plays
a wildlife photographer in the film
and lives with his family on a hill
station. Jiah is his daughter’s friend,
who comes to spend her holidays
with the family. The lensman’s artistic
vision is triggered off when he sees
Jiah’s youthful activities and starts
capturing them in his camera. But
these harmless photo sessions
take an unpredictable turn when
Amitabh sees Jiah playing in the
water getting all wet. It changes
his feelings towards her and he
starts fantasizing about her. This
attraction is not one-sided as Jiah
too is obsessed with him and
unhesitatingly confesses her love.
When he tells his family about his
feelings for the teenager, all hell
breaks loose. His daughter is shell-
shocked on hearing of her dad’s
romance with her friend. Through
this film, Varma tries to state that
age has nothing to do with love.
Attraction between two people can
exist, irrespective of age.

Aftab Shivdasani, Revathi and Rukhsar also star in the film. The novel has
How did you discover Jiah been twice adapted into a film - first time in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick starring
James Mason as Humbert Humbert and next in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring
Khan? Jeremy Irons and received mixed response. It is now to be seen how the Indian
audience reacts to Varma’s interpretation of “Lolita”

Top producers make a beeline for Jiah!

She had come to meet me a
year ago. That time I didn’t
have anything to offer her. But
I thought there was a lot of
promise in her. I was very keen
to cast a new girl for Nishabd. I
needed the character to be an
unknown entity. So she was fit
for the part.
Petite and sexy Jiah Khan is being
acclaimed as the year’s biggest
discovery in Bollywood. All the
reviews and trade pundits have
appreciated her acting abilities as
well as her attitude in Nishabd. No
doubt, these days Jiah has been
getting a lot of congratulatory
adulations and there is a definite
buzz about Jiah. And yet, Jiah
has got a mind of her own to
even turn down an offer from
the director who had the biggest
grosser of last year! According
to sources, following her rave
performance in Nishabd, Jiah has
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been inundated with offers from
top line producers. The sources
add that Jiah has just signed a film
with the biggest of co-star which
is going to shock everyone in the
industry. Now listen to what Jiah
has to say. “Working with Mr.
Bachchan in my debut film has
spoilt me. I would now like to
work only with the best.”
No doubt with an attitude
and confidence like
that, Jiah is all set to
soar higher and higher!

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indytamilsangam.com
Photographer
Bindya Communications (858) 761-
2067
Realtor
Afsaneh Mansoori (317) 819-4254
Beenu Sikand (317) 670-1055
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Auto
Interpreter Services for BMV:
Interpreter services is now available in
Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Hindi,
Punjabi or Urdu. Call 317-523-3691

MATRIMONIALS

Bride Wanted:
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details.

Jewelry
Sundari Jewelry Parties:
Looking for a new way to enjoy time with
Friends? Throw a Sundari Jewelry party,
featuring the most exclusive jewelry from
top exporters in Bombay! Hostesses get free
merchandise when their friends purchase
items. Schedule a date today to host your
own party. Email info@sundarisytle.com

BUSINESS/ SERVICES
Travel Agency Space Available:
Travel Agency space available in a very high-
traffic Ethnic Mini-mall, very reasonable
Rent. All utilites inclusive of Rent. Contact
International Bazaar (317) 299-4628
Call for Life & Health Insurance:
Call today for best health plans with low
deductible and low premiums. Randeep
Chawla Agency- 317-347-3425
Call for Auto & Home Insurance:
Great rates and prompt service for auto
& home owners insurance from Randeep
Chawla Agency. Call 317-347-3425

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

Sony Home Theatre:
Sony SAV home theatre system with 5
speakers containing built in subwoofer
and receiver with remote. 5.1 channel
compatible. Manuals available. Excellent
condition. $75 CALL 317-705-0061Digital
Piano for Sale:
A Yamaha Clavinova digital piano is for
sale. This piano will be great for lessons.
Our son (a serious musician, now away in
college) took lessons on this for several
years. We have not priced this yet. If there
are serious inquiries, I will figure out a
price. Please contact me at shakervc@
yahoo.com

EMPLOYMENT
Office Help Needed:
Looking for a person who can help in
the office with administration job; Very
easy going job with an IT Consulting
company located on the North East side
of Indianapolis; Call Vinnie Rao (317) 541-
0300 Ext 203
Travel Agent:
Need experienced travel agent for a travel
agency in Indy. Full or part time. Call Beenu
Sikand (317) 670-1055 Baby Sitter Needed:
on the south side of Indy. Full or part time.
Call Beenu Sikand (317) 670-1055

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Foreign Language On The Run From A Bear
A mother mouse and a baby mouse are Two campers are walking through
walking along, when all of a sudden, a the woods when a huge brown bear
cat attacks them. suddenly appears in the clearing about
The mother mouse goes, 50 feet in front of them.
“BARK!” and the cat runs The bear sees the campers and
away. begins to head toward them.
“See?” says the mother The first guys drops his
mouse to her baby. backpack, digs out a pair of
“Now do you see why sneakers, and frantically begins
it’s important to learn a to put them on. The second
foreign language?” guys says, “What are you doing?
Sneakers won’t help you outrun
that bear.”
“I don’t need to outrun the bear,” the
first guy says. “I just need to out run
you.”

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CURRENCY CONVERSION
Feb 25, 2007

United States Dollar Bangladesh Taka Nepaleese Rupee Bhutan Ngultrum Pakistani Rupee Indian Rupee Sri Lanka Rupee
(USD) (BDT) (NPR) (BTN) (PKR) (INR) (LKR)
1 69.125 71.08 45.750 60.75 44.045 108.73

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