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Home Textiles That Highlight A Desi Decor
Picking textiles for your decor isn't easy. Here are a few tips to keep in mind for your next project! When decorating your home and playing up your beautiful desi style, it’s important to use textiles the right way. Whether it’s in the form of toss cushions, curtains, wall art, or bedding, fabrics play an important role in every room, and choosing the right textiles will help accentuate your South Asian style.
New And Improved Google Gets Heavy Dose Of Flavour With A South Asian CEO
You can safely call him one of Chennai’s most successful exports — the Indian-born IIT graduate Sundar Pichai is set to take over as CEO of Google! Pichai is currently the senior vice president of products and he oversees Google’s biggest brands, including Android and everyone's favourite, YouTube. The online giant made the announcement on Monday in conjunction with
Woman-Free Bleeds During London Marathon
In choosing to free-bleed during the London Marathon, musician Kiran Gandhi has opened up a divisive but necessary dialogue around period shaming. Image courtesy:
Part 3: Mindfulness To Cope With Your Grief
This is the finale of our three-part series covering the various tolls grieving can take on your mind, body and spirit. We explore the state of mindfulness during the grieving process. *To read part one, on grieving the loss of a loved one, click here. *To read part two, on how grief can affect your mental a
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Building Collapse Leaves 12 Dead In Thane, Near Mumbai, India
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a 50-year-old building in Thane, on the outskirts of Mumbai, came crashing down with several residents fast asleep inside. The building housed five families, and the 2:00 AM collapse left 12 people dead, seven injured and several more trapped ...
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#PORNBAN: India Stops Access To Over 800 Pornography Sites
India blocks more than 800 porn sites as the country's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology cracks down on adult entertainment websites among an ongoing legal debate. Based on government requests, all of India's Internet service providers have block ...
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Bare With Us: A Stand Against The Sexualization Of The Female Body
Alysha Brilla and her two sisters held a rally on Saturday, August 1, 2015, called Bare With Us in an effort to stand against the sexualization of the female body. The Bare With Us rally stems from an event that took place last Friday, on July 24, 2015, when Canadian singer-s ...
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Part 1: Grieving The Loss Of A Loved One
Part one of our three-part series on the various ways grief can affect your mind, body and soul. Grief can be an emotionally gripping experience that can take from as little as a few moments or days to many years in one’s life. In the Sout ...
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Desi DNA links to-be Maharaja To India!
Everyone’s favourite blue eyed British boy has a dash of desi spice! DNA tests suggest that Prince William is 1/256th Indian, traced through his mother, Princess Diana’s lineage. British genetic ancestry testing company BritainsDNA conducted tests on ...
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Tandoori Chicken Flatbread
This recipe will jazz up your BBQ skills. What better way to enjoy the sunshine and hot weather than with some delicious food hot off the BBQ. This dish is super simple to make and is one of my favorite appetizer recipes, not to mention a huge crowd please ...
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UPDATE: Plane Wreckage Found Could Be From Missing Flight MH370
Investigators are trying to identify whether a 2-metre piece of plane wreckage discovered on Reunion Island, thousands of miles away from the Indian Ocean, is part of Flight MH370, which disappeared mysteriously in March 2014. It was just 18 months ago when ...
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