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      India's caste system turned on its head

      Posted by theangryindian from Angryindian.blogspot

      A PARTY of "untouchables" took power in India's most populous state yesterday, the first time a political group championing Hinduism's lowest caste has headed a majority government in the country. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won 206 seats in the 403-seat assembly in Uttar Pradesh, a northern state home to 170 million people - more than the populations of Russia and Australia combined. The BSP, which has fought for the rights of India's Dalits - formerly untouchables in Hinduism's stratif

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      Ah, The Power Of Bollywood

      Posted by Orato

      Mysore, India, April 30, 2007 --- My three-year-old daughter has three dolls and each of these “babies” has a different Daddy. Their names are ShahRukh Khan, Salman Khan and Amitabh Bachchan, and they’re no ordinary men: Each one is, in his own right, a mega star of the Indian screen, a sort of God in a country that’s, for good or for bad, completely and utterly Bollywood-obsessed.

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      Solar loans light up rural India

      Posted by Jeff from BBC News

      Since the project began in 2003, there has been a 13-fold increase in the number of the solar power units being financed within the scheme's pilot area in southern India. A system capable of powering two to four small appliances, or lights, costs about $300-$500.

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    • India To Offer Free Broadband by 2009

      Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

      Quoting from the article: 'The government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. While consumers would cheer, the move holds the potential to kill the telecom business as we know it.'

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    • India: Five years after 2002 Gujarat pogrom: the perpetrators go unpunished

      Posted by Sandyenglish

      Despite the passage of more than five years since the February-March 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in the Indian state of Gujarat, not a single one of the principal perpetrators of this horrific crime has been punished. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Muslims who were driven from their towns and villages by roving bands of Hindu supremacist thugs still languish in relief camps without electricity or running water.

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      Talks begin on Kashmir glacier

      Posted by Jeff from Al Jazeera

      I think Musharraf is serious about bringing peace with India in his lifetime. The two-day talks centred on the disclosure of Pakistani positions on the 20,700ft glacier, which India says it requires before demilitarisation of the world's highest battlefield can begin.

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