When Hollywood made Gandhi a villain
Gunga Din collapses the actor and personality of Gandhi into one. For the white audience, this effected a closure between the real person and villain in the film, but for the Indian audience, it opened up the imperialist's motivated misrepresentation.



Kargil to Sierra Leone
Every day Major Ananthanarayan Arun pulls out a letter pad from under a sheaf of papers and lovingly writes home. He can barely jot down a few sentences before the impressive array of phones on his table begin to ring almost simultaneously. On line one is New York, on line two India.



Why Germany needs IT experts
Mathematics figured under the title `Miscellaneous', and my question as to the whereabouts of the teacher was met by a polite, ``Oh she is sick.'' ``She is always absent at this time of the year,'' added a more knowledgeable mother.



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