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PM raises turban ban issue with French president

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has conveyed Indian "sensitivities" regarding the ban on wearing turban in France to French President Francois Hollande, who has assured him that he would ask the......

'My contact with S Asians was through movies'

Priscilla Uppal, award-winning poet, novelist, literary critic and professor of English at York University, was amongst the five Indian/Indo-Canadian writers invited to the 12th Blue Metropolis......

'Lord Krishna existed. School texts are wrong'

Did Krishna exist? Most certainly, says Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician who teaches in the United Kingdom, proffering astronomical, archaeological, linguistic and oral evidences to......

Brazil: Pele, Ronaldinho, Samba

"So how is your Spanish?" ask my friends in India when I talk to them from my current location -- Brazil. "Why Spanish?""Aren't you now in Latin America, in Brazil, the land of football, Samba, and......

Quebec vote throws up divide

Teaching of world religion in schools and Quebec's Liberal government's decision asking new non-French-speaking immigrants to pledge to learn the language have become issues in the Quebec election......

How much diversity is too much?

For French carmaker Renault, diversity -- men and women, young and old, engineers and non-engineers, different nationalities -- means increased creativity, imagination and performance. "Whenever we......

The business of Christmas

Every Christmas is a sharp reminder of Goldsmith's lines in She Stoops to Conquer about the indigent world being clothed out of the trimmings of the vain.Yet, in spite of abhorrent consumerism,......

A United States of Europe?

Last week the political elites of Europe took a momentous decision by converting what had hitherto been a treaty bound association of nation sates into a constitutional political entity, which......

A continental fare at the Kerala film fest

It apparently has become a staple of the season in Thiruvanathapuram -- a little winter fog, a much-hyped Grand Kerala Shopping Festival (as though the wall-to-wall, year-round ads on TV for gold......

Just why am I a champion of Slumdog?

As we were planning this weekend's Academy Award-viewing plans, I mentioned them to my 5-year-old twins, Durga and Krishna. "Oscar Award?" asked Krishna, "is that when they give awards for......

Read this before you watch Elizabeth

Before the British Raj, before hill-stations and the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, before Gandhi and an empire on which 'the sun never set' -- there was Queen Elizabeth I of England. She ruled for......

Hellboy scares Scooby Doo away!

Violence-soaked films, including The Passion Of The Christ, dominated the box office led by the supernatural thriller Hellboy. The comic saga revolves around a satanic boy rescued from the Nazis......

What's hot in New York?

How does one decide what to see at a film festival? At the recently concluded Toronto International Film Festival, it was possible for journalists to see films from 8.30am till 10pm. Even then many......

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Q. "World Tourism Day ! Where one can find Charter Cathedral ????
Iqbal Seth: A. more

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Q. what was the Battle of Ayn Jalut ?
Khabardar: A. The French medieval Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres (French: Cathdrale Notre-Dame de Chartres) is a Latin Rite Catholic cathedral located in...... more

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Q. Identify the person Blaise Pascal
Hitler: A. The Battle of Ayn JalutContributed by Prof. Dr. Nazeer Ahmed, PhDNot since the Battle of Badr had the Muslim world stood face to face with...... more

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Q. Who was John of Ark?
Hitler: A. JOHN of ARK.: Saint Joan of Arc or The Maid of Orlans (French: Jeanne d'Arc !!! BORN : ca. 1412Domrmy, France Died 30 May 1431 (aged 19)Rouen,...... more

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Suicide in the cathedral, a political act

In a political gesture of national significance, a 78-year-old extreme-right-wing historian opposed to same-sex marriage killed himself in Notre... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/world/suicide-in-the-cathedral-a-political-act/article4740282.ece

Anti-gay campaigner shoots himself in cathedral

Suicide at the altar shocks Notre Dame sightseers. France: A far-right French historian has killed himself at the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in... ...

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Delhi Belly in Cannes…and this time it's for real

So the Indian jamboree at the Cannes Film Festival has come to an end. For this year at least. Perhaps there might be a flutter in store for us on... ...

http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/delhi-belly-in-cannesand-this-time-its-for-real/article4733732.ece

Vatican Church Enters Smartphone Field With Missio App

Pope Francis has joined hands with the US Pontifical Mission Societies to release a new smartphone app, called Missio, which will feature latest... ...

http://www.medindia.net/news/vatican-church-enters-smartphone-field-with-missio-app-119198-1.htm

modern family

The Western liberal imagination, by now, has little problem accepting two men or two women getting married or, as it were, civilly united. (Some... ...

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