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A Reuters clip of a couple at a café table near the Arc de Triomphe, with fires burning behind them, went around the world this week. The Paris terrasse has sat beside unrest before, in 1968, in 2015 and in the yellow-vest years.
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Sonia Sharma follows the festival's last day through Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Ahmedabad and Chennai, with the trade routes behind the food and two home recipes you will not find in a sweet shop.
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Four Ladakhi labels showed pashmina on the last day of Lakmé Fashion Week in Delhi. Before you buy one in America, know what the label is allowed to say.
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27,000+ international runs and a T20 World Cup final Player-of-the-Match award: Kohli's career is the case study of individual brilliance inside a team sport.
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Delhi's air crosses AQI 400, Mumbai's 10-km commute takes two hours, Bangalore's groundwater is falling. Tier-1 cities are victims of their own success.
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India's new middle class buys premium phones while hunting discount deals — aspiration mediated by anxiety in an economy that offers no guarantees.
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Ayodhya's Ram Mandir, the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor, Tirupati's pilgrim economy: India's religious tourism boom — development policy in sacred dress.
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From Fabindia's heritage craft to Dior's global status symbols: how India's wealthy stopped buying rootedness and started buying the same luxury vocabulary
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India's exam machine sorts brilliantly, thinks poorly: millions of engineers following algorithms, few who question them. Why the incentives make reform hard.
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India solved calorie hunger but not protein hunger. What national surveys show about protein intake, stunting, and why vegetarian diets need diversity to work.
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After the marches fade, ordinary cases remain. Policing is necessary but insufficient — most threats come from known people. The case for community-led safety.
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Bangalore traded the Garden City for India's Silicon Valley — and got neither. Traffic, lost green cover, priced-out identity: the cost of the IT bet.
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SAGA reviews Townhouse Books & Café in St. Charles: an indie bookstore in an 1853 Victorian house on the Fox River — plus sandwiches and salads.
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Yoga raises your heart rate when you flow continuously through poses — sun salutations, power yoga, vinyasa. A look at when yoga counts as real cardio.
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Plastic surgeons say selfies drive business as millennials seek surgery over what they see in their photos — while psychologists warn the pressure warps values.
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Anjali Varghese, performed solo for three hours at her Arangetram on Saturday, Aug. 1 at The Hemmens Cultural Center in Elgin.
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At a 2015 Cupertino fundraiser, Indian-Americans raised $75,000 as the first step toward a $4 million, 200-bed eye hospital in Bihar with 25,000 free
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On June 18, 2015, the Eye on India festival hosted actor Anupam Kher in conversation with journalist Victoria Lautman at Film Row Cinema in Chicago.
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Why do Indian-American families push so hard on academics? From skilled-worker immigration to the tiger-parent ethos, a look at the culture of excellence.
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In 2015, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell pledged to remove artificial flavors and colors from their menus. Customer pressure — not corporate kindness — made it happen.
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