The editor's selection of Thoughtful India's longer reporting and analysis on India, its diaspora and Indian American life.
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Chicago lottery winner Urooj Khan died of cyanide poisoning a day after collecting his check. Police suspected foul play; no one was ever charged.
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The National Father's Day Council named Bill Clinton its 2013 Father of the Year, honoring his devotion to Chelsea amid predictable commentary.
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Pamela Geller's AFDI bought 228 NYC subway ad spaces for posters pairing the burning World Trade Center with a Quranic verse on terror.
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A man who stepped in to protect a woman from harassers was beaten for his trouble, then found the law turning on him when her account changed.
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At Nitish Kumar's Janata Darbar in Patna, a young woman slashed her own palm to be heard. All she wanted was computer training and a chance at a job.
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NCRB data showed a rape reported in India every 22 minutes, and experts agreed the real figure was far higher. Then December 2012 broke the silence.
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A meditation on December: the year's final month as a season of reckoning, ritual, and the quiet arithmetic of what the year added up to.
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After Sandy Hook, CNN's Piers Morgan called gun-rights advocate Larry Pratt 'unbelievably stupid' on air, igniting a debate on guns and journalism.
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Days after the December 2012 Delhi gang rape, Amitabh Bachchan asked the question haunting India: a nation that worships goddesses yet brutalizes daughters.
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First-grade teacher Kaitlin Roig hid 15 students in a classroom bathroom during the Sandy Hook shooting, promising them they would see Christmas.
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Remembering the 26 victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting: 20 first-graders and six educators, and the lives they were living.
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Leading off a column with a lively French phrase for a movie that’s quintessentially American is ironic. In a country where many folks don’t want to utter…
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In December 2012, researchers proposed that epigenetic 'epi-marks' explain homosexuality, offering a new answer to an old evolutionary puzzle.
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Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sitar legend who carried Indian classical music to the world, died in San Diego on December 11, 2012. He was 92.
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In December 2012, Nelson Mandela was flown to a Pretoria hospital for tests, prompting a fresh wave of global anxiety about the 94-year-old icon's health.
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Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse duped by a prank call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge, was found dead in December 2012.
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Thieves stole thousands of dollars in donated Christmas gifts from St. Anne's Parish in Shrewsbury, MA. Then Hasbro stepped in to replace them all.
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Seniors at The Willows in Newhall protested a 2012 order to remove their Christmas tree. The management company backed down within a day.
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In late 2012, Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni and his wife Anupama were convicted in Oslo of gross maltreatment of their seven-year-old son and jailed.
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In November 2012, France's industry minister said ArcelorMittal was no longer welcome in the country, escalating the fight over the Florange steel plant.
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