September 2009 - Posts - The Expat Blog

September 2009 - Posts

Should India have its own 9/11 memorial?

Posted by Melissa A. Bell at 
Eight years ago, 34 Indians were murdered at the World Trade Center in New York. It’s not a huge number. Many more died in Bhopal, in Mumbai, in Ayodhya. But after the UK and the US, India lost the most citizens out of any other country in the world on that bright blue morning. And now, according to an article in the New York Times, the Port Authority...

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On screen India: enough with the stereotypes already?

Posted by Ayeshea Perera at 
The television show ' Paul Merton in India ' is quite old, but being a sporadic television viewer at best; I saw it just yesterday on Fox History channel. That days episode was on Delhi, so I suppressed my natural urge to switch channels and decided to watch instead. The first shot was of Paul Merton travelling through the narrow, crowded streets...

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Why I live in India.

Posted by Melissa A. Bell at 
Okay, it took me slightly longer than a day, Jose, my apologies. (For those not intimately engaged in our comment conversation, Jose, a reader on this blog, asked why I came to India. Something tells me he would prefer to ask why the heck haven’t I left yet—and he’d be happy to show me the door—but, as is his way, he was very polite.) I think about...

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