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India, in a New Light A warts-and-all look at a democratic success story.

By Sumit Ganguly Newsweek International Feb. 26, 2007 issue - Suddenly, India is on everyone’s mind. Hardly a day passes without some public discussion about jobs being outsourced there, the growing shortage of hotel rooms in Bangalore, Indian firms seeking to buy European competitors or an Indian novelist who has snapped up a hefty advance from an American publisher. Yet less than 20 years ago, the few stories about India published in major Western outlets were bemoaning its economic woes, diplomatic isolation and political turmoil. Indeed, some latter-day Cassandras were predicting its imminent dissolution, conjuring for India the same fate that had engulfed the other large-scale multiethnic experiments in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Not only has India defied these dire predictions, it is poised on the brink of major power status.



Edward Luce goes a long way toward explaining India’s almost inexhaustible resilience in his knowledgeable, witty and sympathetic account, “In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India” (383 pages. Doubleday. $26). Though Luce’s views of India’s emerging social, political and economic landscape are hardly revolutionary, the former South Asian Bureau Chief for The Financial Times deftly weaves together keen observations, telling anecdotes and scrupulous reportage. From the tale of a lone, imaginative bureaucrat struggling against the forces of a callous bureaucracy to Hindu zealots professing the therapeutic properties of cow dung, Luce’s India is endlessly fascinating. His account highlights aspects of the country that explain its recent spurt of economic growth and continued political stability, such as the ability to hold fair Continued on P:6

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Crossette discusses India, news coverage By Ben Weller March 8, 2007 Crossette shares views with journalism group Barbara Crossette had to fight to get her first overseas assignment at the New York Times. “I lobbied to go back to India after the Fulbright as a Times correspondent,” she says. “(Then-editor) Abe Rosenthal thought it was absurd.” Eventually she did make it back and became one of the most accomplished American foreign correspondents covering South and South-East Asia. The former Times bureau chief in Bangkok and New Delhi offered some advice to aspiring foreign correspondents when she spoke at the School of Journalism at a luncheon on Wednesday. While acknowledging that cutbacks and the elimination of foreign bureaus at some major newspapers make it more difficult for American journalists to work overseas, she thinks that with enterprise and some language skills, journalists may still be able to create their own foreign beat “by just going and throwing themselves in.” “It’s a combination of having some journalism experience and also just being there,” she said. According to Crossette, cell phones and e-mail can make overseas reporting easier, but also pose new problems intrepid reporters. “With instant communication, there’s more contact and control from the desk.” When she was reporting in India, she said, she sometimes ignored orders from her editors and struck out on her own to follow a lead. That is how she came to be with Rajiv Ghandi, the former prime minister of India, when he was killed by a suicide bomber in 1991. She was the last reporter to interview him, and her coverage of his assassination earned her the George Polk Award for foreign reporting. While cutbacks in foreign coverage concern her deeply, she thinks there still is a need and a place for foreign correspondents, and newspapers will eventually realize that. “They are going to have to fill up the slack where there aren’t foreign correspondents anymore,” she said. Former New York Times foreign correspondent Barbara Crossette warned that diminishing news coverage of international affairs will lead readers to have distorted and one-sided images of a country or an issue.Journalists get flak — good journalists even more so. Barbara Crossette is no stranger to this rule. Since the 1970s, she has cast a critical and unflinching eye at India,



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“Thenumberofforeigncorrespondents is plummeting,” she said. Without people on the ground providing sustained and informed coverage, she said, readers are unable to make sense of the news that does make it into the paper, and they lose interest. “You need continuity to build an appetite among readers for foreign news,” she said. Editors pose another problem in Photo by Tyra Robertson where she first visited as a Fulbright Scholar and later worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times. In the process, she’s gained what she calls “a reputation for being hard on India.” Crossette visited Indiana University Wednesday to talk to students and faculty at the School of Journalism in the morning and again at the India Studies House in the evening. She talked about the problems India faces and the importance of consistent and informed foreign news reportage. Her talk was co-sponsored by the India Studies Program and the School of Journalism. Sumit Ganguly, director of the India Studies Institute at IU, invited Crossette to speak, he said, because of “the significance of India to American foreign policy and the lack of knowledge of India in the U.S.” He said it was necessary “to provide an accurate picture — warts and all” and that Crossette’s reporting provides that picture of India. Crossette talked about the vast potential of India, the world’s largest democracy, and the enormous problems faced by its population. Nearly 80 percent of India’s 1.1 billion people live on less than $2 a day, and 26 percent live in”“abject poverty,” by the Indian government’s own estimates. “Here’s this country with all this potential and it keeps stumbling on all these internal political problems that people don’t see from the outside,” she said. While the problems are widely understood internally, she said, news audiences in the United States get only a partial, romanticized view of the country. That kind of coverage applies not just to India but to the developing world at large, she argued. She pointed to a number of troubling trends in U.S. newspaper coverage of foreign affairs. The first is the simple lack of it.

Former New York Times foreign correspondent Barbara Crossette warned that diminishing news coverage of international affairs will lead readers to have distorted and onesided images of a country or an issue.Journalists get flak — good journalists even more so. Crossette’s view. They often want topdown journalism, where reporters go to official sources for information and quotes instead of going out into the field and reporting on the lives of ordinary people. Editors may also have preconceptions and romanticized images of a country and not want to hear stories that conflict with that view. “I couldn’t even sell some of these things to American editors,” she said of her reporting, “because they had romantic views of India from previous reports.” Eventually, Crossette warned, “journalists begin to self-select” and take to following trends and fads in reporting on certain subjects. The result is that readers end up with a distorted and one-sided image of a country or an issue. Journalism senior Andrew Prinsen has traveled in India and he attended Wednesday’s talk at the India Studies House. He came to hear Crossette talk, he said, because he came back from India with his own questions. He appreciated Crossette’s critical perspective on the problems faced by India and the rest of the developing world. “I think it’s always great to look at what’s going right,” he said, “but not at the expense of forgetting about what’s going wrong or continuing to figure out ways to make it better.”

Ben Weller is a master’s student at the Indiana University School of Journalism. He can be reached at [email protected].

STRANGE BUT TRUE By Samantha Weaver On a per-capita basis, more Speedo bathing suits are sold in Iceland than anywhere else in the world. Hedy Lamarr was best known as a siren of the silver screen in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s, but she was more than just a pretty face. In 1942, in the middle of her busy film career, she, along with composer George Antheil, found time to invent and patent what they called a “Secret Communication System,” which was an ahead-of-its-time version of frequency hopping. In 1997, three years before her death, Lamarr was honored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for her contribution to the technology. You may not have realized it when you were drinking that martini, but, as a species, the olive used as a garnish is older than you as a human being. Interestingly, it was noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright who made the following observation: “A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.” If, like me, you grew up watching “The Brady Bunch” on TV, you’ll remember Alice, the Brady’s inimitable housekeeper. Ann B. Davis, the actress who played Alice, insisted that when any scene was being filmed in which her character was cooking, there had to be some kind of food in the pot. During the Middle Ages, it was thought that artichokes had aphrodisiac qualities. It’s been reported that a law in Providence, R.I., prohibits any retailer from selling a toothbrush and toothpaste to the same person on a Sunday. A now-unknown company once put caramel-and-prune ice cream on the market. Thought for the Day: “Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid.” -- Hedy Lamarr (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.

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elections and cope with alternations of power—rare in the developing world. Yet he rightly emphasizes that India’s prosperity was hobbled in part by the government’s own flawed economic policies, which strangled innovation, stifled entrepreneurship and stunted rapid growth. And thanks to a stateled economic strategy, more than 26 percent of its population is still consigned to abject poverty, more than 50 years after India’s independence. While lauding India’s ability to survive—indeed thrive—as a multiethnic and multireligious society, Luce exhibits little patience for virulent Hindu nationalism. He pointedly tracks the rise of the BJP over the past 15 years, underscoring the danger that this ethnic nationalist party poses to the stability of India’s plural society. Luce’s book, however, does not confine itself to matters of high politics and economics. He devotes considerable time to describing the hope that democracy, with all its shortcomings, offers to India’s poor and otherwise marginalized lower castes. In relating the story of Aruna Roy, an upper-caste former government administrator who left behind a comfortable life to lead a peasant advocacy group, Luce vividly illustrates the growth of much of India’s social movements. Groups such as Roy’s Organization for the Empowerment of

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Workers and Peasants have galvanized India’s upper castes in tackling myriad social ills and failures of governance. Though the scope of their efforts may be limited, they have nevertheless helped spawn a form of citizen activism that puts to shame many advanced industrial democracies. Is India finally out of the woods? Or is the triumphalism so evident in its gleaming upper-middle-class enclaves premature? Luce’s book, despite its mostly upbeat outlook, strikes a cautionary agenda: India must tackle its seemingly endemic poverty, maintain ethnic peace domestically, prevent environmental collapse and improve relations with its nettlesome neighbor, Pakistan. As the author cogently argues, India has repeatedly managed to confound even its most dire critics. Quoting Indian politician Arun Shourie, he writes, “Governance is not golf; that we are a democracy does not entitle us to a handicap.” If it can rise to the challenges it still faces, India will have bested the gods.

Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington and the author of the forthcoming book “India Since 1980.” © 2007 Newsweek, Inc.



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Subsidized or Free Healthcare Dr. Vipin Kalia As many of you in the community have already noticed, the immigrant population has significant difficulty in accessing healthcare. Over the last two years, I have received hundreds of calls, especially from new immigrants who have migrated here from California, the west coast, or the east coast, expressing their difficulty in accessing healthcare. It has been and continues to be my desire to have universal access to healthcare free of cost. My underlying fundamental philosophy is that whenever somebody is thirsty, he or she should have access to clean water; whenever somebody is hungry he or she should have access to good, quality food. Similarly, if somebody is sick, he or she should have access to good, quality healthcare. If somebody is elderly, disabled, or chronically sick and if his or her family is unable to provide care for whatever reasons, he or she should be taken care of by the community at large. So far, with this philosophy in mind, I have never ever run into a single human being who disagrees with the above philosophy. However, the second part of my philosophy is that if and when somebody drinks from a reservoir or well of water, he or she has a lifelong obligation to nourish that well. It is somewhat similar to going to a fruit tree and enjoying the fruit of the tree. My feeling is that once we enjoy the fruit of the tree, then we all have a lifelong obligation to water that tree and put plant food to nourish the tree so that it will continue to give fruit forever. I would like everyone in our community to help me plant a lifelong fruit tree of comprehensive, free, universally accessible healthcare without any language or cultural barriers. I feel this mission to be very important. I get calls like the desperate one on the 11th of Jan., 2007 from Mrs. Sucha Singh that was recorded on my cell phone voicemail and is available on my internet website. She has given me written permission to use her name for this. Mr. Singh is a 41 year old Indian gentleman who was having significant difficulty breathing and extreme chest pain. It is not that emergency rooms are not available where all you have to do is dial 911 and present yourself. They were well aware they could use ERs for this. They are self employed people in the middle class and own a semi truck and a house. They know that they will not qualify for free healthcare and as a result they would have to pay significant amount of money where their financial futures could be forever jeopardized. On the same day, I got another call from a friend of mine about another Mr. Singh (but I had not gotten his formal permission to use his name so I will leave it at Mr. Singh). The second gentleman also had significant chest pain in his left side and blurry vision. His vision was in jeopardy. He owns a local gas station and has significant stake in his future, however, he does not have any health insurance. Both these people do not qualify for free healthcare because of the assets they have in their names.



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Both of these gentlemen were looking for a magical medical pill or magic wand that would make all of their lives’ problems go away including the medical ones. However, as a General Internal Medicine Doctor with a pen and prescription pad in my pocket, the IU School of Medicine has not given me that magic wand yet. Both of these gentlemen’s problems far exceed those that can be handled completely free. I’m willing to provide my services for free as I did on January the 12th at the local Gurdwara. However, both these people needed many more tests and many more specialized services. When they were advised about those tests, they were completely at a loss because they did not have insurance. Over the years I have received hundreds of calls like these from fellow Indians, immigrants and other Hoosiers in the community and thousands of calls like these from American patients. It is surprising to me that 50 million people in this country and a large percentage of the immigrant population especially, suffers from carrying partial or under insurance. It still behooves me why people don’t take this as a common interest problem and look for communal solution. However, since I continue getting calls from people in desperate situations and I feel that I have skills to make a dent in this large problem so I am going to go ahead and do exactly that. The way I am intending to make a dent is, that for starters, I am going to open an almost free clinic (highly subsidized by me). I will provide free healthcare to those people who cannot afford any healthcare whatsoever. However those people who can afford some money, would be expected to pay a minimal charge of $35. This $35 is not intended to make any money and would not cover the cost of my secretary, receptionist, and a nurse, or even the rental of the building. I feel this is an important enough problem and some charitable effort has to be made. However, I would charge a full price to those people who require more complicated care (The entire bill that I would charge in my practice at VA Hospital, IU Hospital or at Johnson Memorial Hospital). Additionally, I am going to offer a unique feature to spark the universal interest to organize free health care. I will charge an entire fee that I charge in my practice up front. However, patients can earn the entire bill back ( minus $35) by helping me organize a free comprehensive healthcare clinic, first for the Indian immigrants, then for everyone partially insured and under insured in central Indiana, then hopefully for the entire country, and then eventually for the entire world. There are 4.5 to 5 billion people in this world who cannot afford to see a doctor and that is a travesty of justice. All these philosophical motivations that drive me to these goals will be available for everyone to see on the internet at www.UnitedWebOfLife.org . The site includes details of what I hope to

accomplish, why I hope to accomplish these goals including details on my other passion, The United Web of Life, which is essentially healthcare for elderly, disabled, and chronically sick people, enabling them to live independent, dignified lives in their own homes. The details of all of these programs will be visible on my website and I encourage everyone to feel free to visit it anytime. I also challenge everyone who has eaten the fruit of free healthcare in the past and intends to eat it in the future, not to wait like Mrs. Sucha Singh and Mr. Sucha Singh to find a free cardiology, a free radiology, and a free healthcare hospital for you, but come to me in advance so that we can arrange them far in advance for your day of sickness. Either way, I look forward to serving the uninsured and under insured in the community, and I look forward to working with everyone in planning for free healthcare for the community. If you have any questions please feel free to give me a call at (317) 414- 4439. I may not get back to you right away because of multiple commitments including a full time job however more than likely by Sunday evening I should be able to get back to you. If you have any more questions, please feel free to give me a call and/or if you would like to help organize this project, feel free to call for details on

this and other projects I am involved with that are available on my website at www.UnitedWebofLife.org . Last but not least, my thanks to all those Super Volunteers who have been helping me along so far. God Bless those Super Volunteers for their efforts.

Vipin Kalia, M.D. Asst. Professor of Clinical Medicine@ I.U.Med Center Firm Chief, VA Med Center President and CEO of HOPS Weight Loss Centers GOOD HOUSEKEEPING TWO

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NOW HERE’S A TIP By JoAnn Derson “I recently had a hole in my drywall. I was trying to patch it, but it was quite big and the joint compound kept falling through the hole. I ended up stuffing a wad of aluminum foil in the hole to ‘catch’ the compound. It worked for the quick fix, allowing the compound to set up nicely. You can’t even tell where the hole was now.” -B.B., via e-mail “To get our kids involved in healthy nutrition, we made some fun magnets for the fridge. There are an appropriate number of magnets to represent servings of fruits and veggies, with each family member getting a different-color magnet. We can’t have fats or sweets unless we have had all our fruits and vegetables for the day. It’s working so far.” -- F.I. in Oregon “Zip-lock bags work really well to separate toys in the playroom. Anything with small parts goes right into a gallon-size bag, if it will fit. We have most of our original board games still in playing condition because of this.” -- A.E. in Texas

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If you are trying to clean Venetian blinds, try this: Cover both hands with old socks, mist with cleaner and rub away. “Add a space for a washcloth on your towel rack by adding an S-hook. If you hang it off the towel bar, you can then put your washcloth on the small hook and the towel on the rack.” -- V.A. in Indiana “I have a laundry basket in my guest-room closet for things I will be donating or giving away. I keep an envelope taped to the side of the basket. Whenever I add something to the basket, I write what it is on a scrap of paper, then put the scrap in the envelope. After I drop it off, I have a record of the items donated and can properly estimate their value for tax purposes.” -- Y.L. in Arizona Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 328536475 or e-mail JoAnn at letters.kfws@ hearstsc.com. (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.

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THE ROGER E. HERNANDEZ COLUMN By Roger E. Hernandez Drop in Interethnic Marriage: Cheer or Jeer? Once upon a time, there was trouble if you married outside of your ethnic group. It wasn’t until 1967 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, and not everybody loved Lucy and Ricky. Now, we are told, we might be headed for trouble because people are marrying inside their ethnic group. The issue was raised by academics Zhenchao Qian and Daniel Lichter in the February issue of American Sociological Review.

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Their paper claims that the number of U.S.-born Hispanic men who married non-Hispanic white women declined from 35.3 percent in 1990 to 31.9 percent in 2000. And that the number of native-born Asian-American men in intermarriages with white women declined too in the 1990s, from 50.2 percent to 45.8 percent. In contrast, Census figures say that between 1970 and 1990, intermarriage figures increased. Sociologists believe ethnic intermarriage is one of the most important hallmarks of assimilation into the larger society. Does this decline

mean that Hispanics and Asians are becoming more isolated? Other studies on intermarriage show there’s no need to fret. One paper published in June 2005 in the journal Population Bulletin said only 5 percent of Hispanics with less than a high-school education married outside the group, compared with 28 percent of Hispanic men and 35 percent of Hispanic women with a college degree. Still another study, sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2003, said 57 percent of third-generation Hispanics married non-Hispanics. So there you have it. The more educated you are and the longer your family has lived here, the more likely you are to mix it up with someone from a different background. Perhaps surprisingly, says the Qian and Lichter study, the number of blacks who married whites went from 8.3 percent to 14.9 percent in the 1990s. The rate is substantially lower than for Hispanics and Asians, but it is growing, not declining like it is for the other “minorities.” This draws attention to the central difference among the groups lumped together as “minorities.” The old taboos against race mixing were aimed at African-Americans much more than at Asians or Hispanics When it comes to Asian-white marriages, today almost nobody thinks

twice about the mixed ethnicity of actor Keanu Reeves or “Today” show anchor Ann Curry. When it comes to Hispanics, it’s not even accurate to speak of “interracial” marriages, since Hispanics may be of any race. But when it comes to AfricanAmericans, the line was drawn so sharply -- blacks here, whites there, and don’t you dare cross -- that it is still visible. This accounts for the much lower intermarriage rate for blacks. Yet the line is becoming blurred, which accounts for the increase in black-white marriages. Ricky was allowed to love Lucy as early as 1951. But it took until 1968 for the first interracial kiss -- never mind marriage -- on a U.S. television series, when Lt. Uhura and Capt. Kirk touched lips on “Star Trek.” Their smooch was involuntary, forced by the telekinetic powers of the nasty leaders of the planet Platonius.

Roger Hernandez is a syndicated columnist and writer-in-residence at New Jersey Institute of Technology. (c) 2007 King Features Synd., Inc.

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REVIEWS Director Ram Gopal Varma’s Nishabd, which releases Friday, tells the story of an intimate and unusual relationship between an older man and his daughter’s friend. Starring Amitabh Bachchan and newcomer Jiah Khan, Nishabd is said to be based on Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel “Lolita”. While Nakobov’s novel is about a 44-year-old man fantasising about a precocious 12-year-old girl, Varma’s Nishabd is about a 60-year old married man’s romance with an 18-year-old girl. Amitabh plays a wildlife photographer in the film and lives with his family on a hill station. Jiah is his daughter’s friend, who comes to spend her holidays with the family. The lensman’s artistic

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vision is triggered off when he sees Jiah’s youthful activities and starts capturing them in his camera. But these harmless photo sessions take an unpredictable turn when Amitabh sees Jiah playing in the water getting all wet. It changes his feelings towards her and he starts fantasizing about her. This attraction is not one-sided as Jiah too is obsessed with him and unhesitatingly confesses her love. When he tells his family about his feelings for the teenager, all hell breaks loose. His daughter is shellshocked on hearing of her dad’s romance with her friend. Through this film, Varma tries to state that age has nothing to do with love. Attraction between two people can exist, irrespective of age.

Aftab Shivdasani, Revathi and Rukhsar also star in the film. The novel has been twice adapted into a film - first time in 1962 by Stanley Kubrick starring James Mason as Humbert Humbert and next in 1997 by Adrian Lyne, starring Jeremy Irons and received mixed response. It is now to be seen how the Indian audience reacts to Varma’s interpretation of “Lolita”

Top producers make a beeline for Jiah!

She had come to meet me a year ago. That time I didn’t have anything to offer her. But I thought there was a lot of promise in her. I was very keen to cast a new girl for Nishabd. I needed the character to be an unknown entity. So she was fit for the part.

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Petite and sexy Jiah Khan is being acclaimed as the year’s biggest discovery in Bollywood. All the reviews and trade pundits have appreciated her acting abilities as well as her attitude in Nishabd. No doubt, these days Jiah has been getting a lot of congratulatory adulations and there is a definite buzz about Jiah. And yet, Jiah has got a mind of her own to even turn down an offer from the director who had the biggest grosser of last year! According to sources, following her rave performance in Nishabd, Jiah has

been inundated with offers from top line producers. The sources add that Jiah has just signed a film with the biggest of co-star which is going to shock everyone in the industry. Now listen to what Jiah has to say. “Working with Mr. Bachchan in my debut film has spoilt me. I would now like to work only with the best.” No doubt with an attitude and confidence like that, Jiah is all set to soar higher and higher!

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BUSINESS DIRECTORY Visit www.SAsiaOne.com for complete list of business and services owned by South Asians in your area and to submit your business & services information for publication in this section. Information is published FREE in this section. Apparels, Fashion & Jewelry

Shingar (317) 887-6870 Sundari (317) 951-4894 J S Desi Music & Fashion (317) 2992228

GDP Spices & More (317) 882-6186 International Bazaar (317) 299-4628 Patel Brothers (317) 293-8345 Bombay Bazar (317) 585-9130 Desi Bazar (317) 888-2040

Nur-Allah Islamic Center 2040 E 46th St, Indnpls; P: 317-251- 9796 Junior Islamic Academy 2825 N Ritter Ave, Indnpls; P: 317-542-0100

Mortgage & Loan

Home of Spices (317) 882-6044

Ateev Mortgage (317) 890-8700

India Bazaar (317) 244-2148

Bharati Loans (317) 413-9788

International Food Market (317) 2915282

Star Alliance Mortgage (800) 9786522

Shariq Siddiqui (317) 638-1468

International Groceries (317) 8378145

Music School

Joel Samuel Paul (317) 509-1548

Nest Grocery Store (317) 885-7170

Astrology ABCO Astrology (212) 671-2683

Attorney (Imigration)

Beauty Parlor ABCO Beauty Parlor (212) 671-2684 Indy’s Arch (317) 529-6513 Shingaar (317) 887-6870

Banquet Hall BVI Hotel (Banquet Facility) 658-2068 India Community Center (317) 2910131 India Palace (317) 298-0773

BMV Translation

Namaste Plaza (317) 849-8640 New Spice Land (317) 347-0198

Gurdwara

Computer HW & Repair The Computer Center (317) 291-9211

Computer SW & Web DEV AKus Technologies, Inc. (317) 9730237 Inter-Link Inc (317) 450-5801

Dish & Cable Satellite Solutions (317) 536-8505

Disk Jockey (DJ)

Sikh Satsang of Indianapolis 10950 Southeastern Ave., Indnpls www. indianapolisgurdwara.org P: (317) 8627454 Sikh Religious Society of Indiana 10005, Colorado St , Crown Point, IN - 46307 P: (219) 793-9446

Home Improvement Indy’s Best Drapery (317) 331-1455

Home Construction Gills Custom Homes (317) 997-4527

Home Repair RSS Construction Co (317) 557-8047 IT Consulting & Employment

Ryan Consulting Group (317) 5419300

Insurance Randeep Chawla Agency (317) 3473425

DJ MS (317) 809-8640

Desi Insurance Agency (317) 889-9870

Fusion Entertainment (317) 716-3524

Ranjit Jayadeva Puthran (866) 7057483

Masti Sound & DJ (317) 228-9997 Soundz of India (317) 875-8126 The Dhol Element (317) 809-8392

Financial Planner The Hedegard Group (317) 709-2192

Grocery Store Asian Grocers (Shingar) (317) 8876870

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Manjit Singh (317) 750-1900 Sethi Team Realty (765) 455-0900 Y. Parikshak & Associates (317) 465224

Restaurant Ambar (317) 580-0828 Garam Masala (317) 257 1213 Heera (317) 334-0404 India Garden (317) 634-6060

Sur Sumiran (Bhai Manjit Singh)

India Garden (317) 253-6060

[Vocal, Tabla Harmonium] (317) 8879536

India Palace (317) 298-0773

Manjit Trehan [Tabla] (317) 228-9997 Tabla Guide tablaguide.tripod.com

India Sizzling (317) 845-5500 Magoos Pizza (317) 293-4411 Masala Kitchen (317) 849-2996

Guru Nanak Sikh Society 1911 Hobart Ave., Indnpls; P: (317) 786-2331

Punjabi/Hindi/Urdu-English Randeep Chawla (317) 523-3691

Bina Ahluwalia (317) 844-4052

Thakkar Insurance (877) 570-9570

Music Store J S Desi Music & Fashion (317) 2992228

Organization Bichitra, Inc. - The Bengali Association of Greater Indnpls Contact: Joy K Saha E: [email protected] www.geocities. com/bichitrainc India Association of Indianapolis 4420 W. 56th St.,Indnpls www.iaibharati. com Greater Indnpls Telugu Association (GITA) Contact: Balaraju “RAJU” Chinthala P: (317) 293-8218 E: balarajuc@hotmail. com http://gitaonline.org Indiana Malayalee Association Contact: Satheesh Govind E: [email protected] www. midwestmalayalees.com Kannada Association of Indnpls Contact: Kamalesh Masoor P: (317) 815-8018 E: [email protected] Maharashtra Sneha Mandal Indiana (MSMI) Contact: Shirish Ranade P: (317) 581-1276 E: shirishr@hotmail. com www.msmionline.org

Spice Land Grill (317) 347-0198 Taj of India (317) 578-4400 Tadkaa (317) 280-8009 Udupi Café (317) 299-2127

Temple Hindu Temple of Central Indiana 3350 N German Church Rd, Indnpls www. htci.org Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (BAPS) 350 N County Road, 900 East, Avon P: (317) 271-1577 www.swaminarayan.org

Travel Services Air Tours, Inc. (888) AIR - 4545 Desi Travel Agency (317) 670-1055 Fly4less (913) 239 - 0600 LAXpress Travel (317) 485-0444

Tamil Sangam of Central Indiana, E: [email protected] www. indytamilsangam.com

Photographer

ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) ISNA Headquarters/Masjid 6555 South 750 East, Plainfield P: (317) 839-8157

Bindya Communications (858) 7612067

Islamic Center of Indianapolis (Masjid Al-Fajr) 2846 Cold Spring Rd, Indnpls; P: 317- 923-2847

Shalimar (317) 465-1100

Kerala Association (Indianapolis) Contact: Mathew Palakal P: 317-2993694 E: [email protected]

Mosque

Muhammad Mosque 2248 E 38th St, Indnpls; P: 317-542-7720

Ruchi Royal Cuisine of India (317) 8857170

Realtor Afsaneh Mansoori (317) 819-4254 Beenu Sikand (317) 670-1055

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CLASSIFIED Visit www.SAsiaOne.com to search latest classifieds and submit your own. All classifieds that are submitted online at www.SAsiaOne.com are printed free.

Auto Interpreter Services for BMV: Interpreter services is now available in Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Hindi, Punjabi or Urdu. Call 317-523-3691

MATRIMONIALS Bride Wanted: Check SAsiaOne.com classifieds for more details.

Jewelry Sundari Jewelry Parties: Looking for a new way to enjoy time with Friends? Throw a Sundari Jewelry party, featuring the most exclusive jewelry from top exporters in Bombay! Hostesses get free merchandise when their friends purchase items. Schedule a date today to host your own party. Email [email protected]

BUSINESS/ SERVICES Travel Agency Space Available:

Travel Agency space available in a very hightraffic Ethnic Mini-mall, very reasonable Rent. All utilites inclusive of Rent. Contact International Bazaar (317) 299-4628 Call for Life & Health Insurance:

Call today for best health plans with low deductible and low premiums. Randeep Chawla Agency- 317-347-3425 Call for Auto & Home Insurance:

Great rates and prompt service for auto & home owners insurance from Randeep Chawla Agency. Call 317-347-3425

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE Sony Home Theatre: Sony SAV home theatre system with 5 speakers containing built in subwoofer and receiver with remote. 5.1 channel compatible. Manuals available. Excellent condition. $75 CALL 317-705-0061Digital

Piano for Sale: A Yamaha Clavinova digital piano is for sale. This piano will be great for lessons. Our son (a serious musician, now away in college) took lessons on this for several years. We have not priced this yet. If there are serious inquiries, I will figure out a price. Please contact me at shakervc@ yahoo.com

EMPLOYMENT Office Help Needed: Looking for a person who can help in the office with administration job; Very easy going job with an IT Consulting company located on the North East side of Indianapolis; Call Vinnie Rao (317) 5410300 Ext 203

Travel Agent: Need experienced travel agent for a travel agency in Indy. Full or part time. Call Beenu Sikand (317) 670-1055 Baby Sitter Needed: on the south side of Indy. Full or part time. Call Beenu Sikand (317) 670-1055

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LIGHTER MOMENT Foreign Language A mother mouse and a baby mouse are walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacks them. The mother mouse goes, “BARK!” and the cat runs away. “See?” says the mother mouse to her baby. “Now do you see why it’s important to learn a foreign language?”

On The Run From A Bear Two campers are walking through the woods when a huge brown bear suddenly appears in the clearing about 50 feet in front of them. The bear sees the campers and begins to head toward them. The first guys drops his backpack, digs out a pair of sneakers, and frantically begins to put them on. The second guys says, “What are you doing? Sneakers won’t help you outrun that bear.” “I don’t need to outrun the bear,” the first guy says. “I just need to out run you.”

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CURRENCY CONVERSION Feb 25, 2007

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