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Mystery solved: Biden gets proof of family ties to India
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“And although we never admitted it... I’ve found out that there was a Capt. George Biden who was a captain in the East India Tea Company in India,” Biden said. He appeared to be referring to the British East India Company, a commercial power for centuries that controlled trade in colonized India and parts of southeast Asia.
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Ziona Chana: Head of 'world's largest family' dies in India's Mizoram state.
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A 76-year-old man believed to be the head of the world's largest family has died in India's Mizoram state.
Ziona Chana, the head of a religious sect that practised polygamy, died on Sunday, leaving behind 38 wives, 89 children and 36 grandchildren.
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Kannada: Google apologises for 'ugliest Indian language' search result
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India's Karnataka state says it plans to send a legal notice to Google after it showed the state's official language as the "ugliest language in India".
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Indian economist Amartya Sen receives top Spanish award
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Amartya Kumar Sen, an Indian economist and philosopher who studied the causes of famines, will be recognized with this year's Princess of Asturias award in the social sciences category, the Spanish foundation behind the prizes announced Wednesday.
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Best Ways to Keep the Ego in Check | Pearlmindz
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By keeping your ego in check and balancing it accordingly, you get to use it as a tool to grow and improve instead of something that tears you down. There are some ways to keep the Ego in check
1. Seek objective feedback on your ego
2. Acknowledge your ego for helping you
3. Think like a scientist
4. Self Awareness and Abundance Mindset
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The Truth Behind Indian American Exceptionalism
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Many of us are unaware of the special circumstances that eased our entry into American life—and of the bonds we share with other nonwhite groups.
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The Indian queens who modelled for the world's first vaccine
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When Devajammani arrived at the royal court of Mysore in 1805, it was to marry Krishnaraja Wadiyar III. They were both 12 years of age and he was the newly minted ruler of the southern Indian kingdom.
But Devajammani soon found herself recruited for a more momentous cause - to publicise and promote the smallpox vaccine.
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Chinese Ambassador calls China a beggar compared to India. China dont forget who taught who how to count. India will teach you many lessons!
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India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. India's culture dominated China for centuries. Hu Shih
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EINSTEIN WARNS against Chinese - calls the Chinese filthy people - China stop studying Physics!
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industrious, filthy, obtuse people. Chinese don?t sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse. It would be a pity if these Chinese supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably dreary.
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I grew up in the slums of India. Now I’m a scientist
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I scrambled up a ladder to the tin roof of our house, clutching a book about the evolution of animals. I was 10 years old, and I’d just finished cooking dinner for my entire family—a task that was my daily responsibility.
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Over 10 agonizing days, this migrant worker walked and hitchhiked 1,250 miles home. India's lockdown left him no choice
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Rajesh Chouhan had covered 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) in five days. His legs were swollen and his blisters had burst. A piece of Styrofoam trash he'd found on the roadside was soaking up the pus seeping from his feet.
But he didn't stop walking. He couldn't.
The 26-year-old migrant worker was in the heart of India and only halfway home. #coronavirus
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Monkeys snatch blood samples of suspected Covid-19 patients in India
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A troop of monkeys snatched the blood samples of suspected coronavirus patients at a government hospital in the Meerut district of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Reruns of religious dramas comfort Indians in dire times
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GURUGRAM, India — Staying home under lockdown as they wait for the worst of the #coronavirus pandemic to pass, millions of Indians are turning to their gods. Not in prayer rooms, but on TV.
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World’s Largest Evacuation Begins as India Brings Back Citizens
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India will deploy commercial jets, military transport planes and naval warships to bring back hundreds of thousands of citizens stranded across the world, in what’s set to be the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation exercise in history. #CoronaVirus
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Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs. AWESOME!!!
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Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.
"If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." Again with the Chinese insults, when Prince Philip addressed a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.
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Qamar Dagar, the woman fighting to keep India's calligraphy culture alive
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India has 22 official languages. But the real beauty isn't just in hearing them spoken -- it's in seeing them rendered in script.
The bustling streets of Delhi's Urdu Bazaar were once lined with calligraphers.
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Mumbai is India's most 'forgetful' city, says Uber
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Mumbai is India's most "forgetful" city, according to Uber's Lost & Found Index 2020, followed by Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Allahabad.
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CNN's Jessica Ravitz spent two weeks in Rishikesh, India,
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#yoga CNN's Jessica Ravitz spent two weeks in Rishikesh, India, in January, speaking with dozens of swamis, gurus, yogis, astrologers, healers, seekers and other residents and guests.
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The naked truth: Vancouver men are taking the plunge for cold-water nude yoga
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Will Blunderfield, a popular Vancouver #yoga teacher and singer , whose goal is to make alternative spiritual music as popular as Michael Bublé made swing, is leading today’s cold plunge. The 20-minute dips are “clothing optional”.
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Tackle this: NFL players benefit from regular yoga practice
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Yet in recent years, the presence of #yoga has grown in the NFL. The fast-paced, hard-hitting sport has accepted the more calming practice that emphasizes conscious breathing and body flow. Much like yin and yang, the two complement each other both mentally and physically. Read more...
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Behind India's construction boom, a world of ‘systematic slavery’
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Writer and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk is a storytelling odyssey across the world in the footsteps of our human forebears. This is his latest dispatch from India.
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Chinese man prevented from visiting Indian family
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In 1963, a former Chinese army surveyor crossed into India and was captured weeks after a war between the two countries. Wang Qi was then left in a central Indian town for more than five decades before he was allowed to travel back home to China in 2017.
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Snake charmer chases monkey after it snatches his cobra
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This was the bizarre moment a monkey snatched a cobra from a snake charmer and fled. The snake charmer desperately pursued the monkey to get his snake back. The incident occurred in Vrinadavan, Uttar Pradesh, India on October 26. #Wildlife
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The Indian princess who became a South Korean queen
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#Ayodhya, which is best known as the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram, also however, holds special significance for some South Koreans - many believe they can trace their ancestry to the city.
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