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[ATTACH=CONFIG]2501[/ATTACH] [B]Bengali Cuisine in the Suburbs of Mumbai[/B] And now this? It's an invasion from the North(east). Soon we will have momos and thukpas in Matunga. [URL="http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/bengali-cuisine-in-the-suburbs-of-mumbai/?src=me&ref=travel"][COLOR ...

[URL]http://www.transparency.org/[/URL] This has been referenced in past discussions in other threads on corruption. [I] [B]What kind of environment does corruption need to thrive in?[/B] As indicated above, corruption thrives where temptation coexists with permissiveness. Where institutional checks ...

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Tracy Chapman --- "fast Cars"; "gimme one good reason"

My thoughts: (1) This should be in the Politics thread Thaksin was forced out after winning an election. A compromise candidate replaced him but he too was summarily removed by court order. Shinawatra had popular support among the rural poor and Vejjajiva was seen by the poor as an imposition by the ...

Been watching the FO. Rooting for the Fed but did not seem very promising in his early rounds. Is it my TV or has he added a few pounds and slowed down? Any revised predictions? Murray anyone?

Soviet propaganda flooded city streets with cheap editions of books in science and maths mainly but also childrens fairy tales--- especially in Cal(Kol). And the US propaganda machine would flood the streets with Russian books banned by the Soviets!!! Anyone remember Baba Yaaga? Separately: [FONT ...

[QUOTE=spartan;290390] [COLOR=DarkOrange][I]30% of carbon gas is released by plants[/I][/COLOR] and less than 4% man made. The term [COLOR=DarkOrange]greenhouse gas came into effect after it was foundplants releasing Co gases [/COLOR]and thereby heating the green house nurseries.[/QUOTE] I was ...

[FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT]Many many decades ago, I was standing in a bus queue ( yes ?[/FONT][FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT]Bombay[/FONT][FONT=TimesNewRomanPSMT]? had queues even back then) behind a well dressed lady and in front of two ?Madrasis? fresh off the train, I suspect. The lady was in short knee ...

It is a tradition born of agrarian economies and was found everywhere – England, France, Russia you name it.[ [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry[/URL]] Jane Austen’s ladies were seduced and betrayed for their dowry by scoundrels. When a farmer/landowner had sons and daughters it was not viable t ...