'Strike to strike the deal'
Bravo Jeri.

Please forward this letter to Citizen and Sun and copy to the City Councillors.

Thomas.

The strike to stike the deal

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Political Crisis in Canada
What Canada needs now is a National Unity Government to deal with the economic crisis. Such a government should be formed by all parties committed to national unity, including Conservative, Liberal and New Democratic Parties, headed by a Prime Minister, who is not currently a leader of any of these political parties and chosen by all MPs willing to support such a government. Cabinet portfolios should be shared roughly in proportion to the number of ... Read More

India and China in R & D
Indian political leaders seem to believe what they read in the press about India graduating hundreds of thousands of engineers, and how IIT graduates fueling the growth of Silicon Valley. My research has shown that these are all myths. Indian education is in really bad shape and Indian politics seems to have made it worse. Yet, India is racing ahead in becoming a global hub for R&D. Despite the fact that China is spending a ... Read More

English vs. Vernacular newspapers
Does anyone know if data comparing advertising revenues of English papers versus those of vernacular papers is available anywhere?

Though vernacular paper readership is much higher than English paper readership, I would suspect that English papers generate more advertising revenues than vernacular papers given that their readership probably has higher spending power. If this is true, it would be interesting to compare what the actual numbers are.

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Articles in the Daily
I just glanced through some of your articles in Southasiamail. They’ re very good. Congratulations!

Prof. Titus Mathews

Calgary

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Biodata and South Asian Marriages
I am a reporter for the LA Times.

I am working on a story about the use of biodata among South Asian marriage candidates and am looking for people to interview (especially in California) who have either used biodata, whether successfully or not, or have had parents try to force them to read someone's biodata. I can be reached either at my office phone 213-237-4507 or my e-mail raja.abdulrahim@latimes.com.

Raja Abdulrahim ... Read More

Reservations
The FIRST community to refuse reservations in India were the Parsis who refused religion based rservations right in the Constituent Assembly in 1948.

Ashok Row Kavi ... Read More

Control Arms Foundation of India
Greetings from Control Arms Foundation of India

We welcome you to our inaugural edition of our electronic-newsletter. It is our way of keeping you informed about what is going on at our own organization, working for a safer tomorrow and humane security, thus making disarmament meaningful to people's life.

Control Arms Foundation of India (CAFI), formerly known as India Working Group on Arms Control (IWGAC) was established in September 2004 in New Delhi by a group of ... Read More

Temple Stampede
All "rich Temples' are now governed by Government appointed "trustees" who are mostly political appointees out to milk the Temple for the rich treasury and cash in the "hundi" (cash collection box).

Nothing is spent on setting up more facilities or making life comfortable for the worshippers and devotees. The Art of Living Foundation has started investigation in this new kind of temple looting by the "secular government". In Karnataka alone (where the regrettable violence is just ... Read More