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Bharat Sevashram Sangha - Chicago IL, USA - Chapters Around the World
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Chapters Around the World. Chapters Around the World. Sorry, your browser does not support iframes. Please visit the worldwide Bharat Sevashram Sangha website. To view branch locations. Page last updated August 23, 2011. Aurora IL, 60506.
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The Peanut Express: The Useless Dust - Part I
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Tuesday, January 3, 2012. The Useless Dust - Part I. Avinash Singh made sure that the sacks were properly tied down. It was an open Tata. And that's when he heard the barking. Street. And this seemed like a standoff, that was long overdue. Suddenly, Avinash heard the sound of shattering glass. He turned and saw that one of the rocks hurled by the homeless man, had hit a beautiful glass elephant, being displayed outside an antique store on the other side of the s...
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The Peanut Express: Sanskrit, German and Owls in Athens
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Sunday, November 30, 2014. Sanskrit, German and Owls in Athens. After a long time, India has a right wing nationalist government, that does. Believe in the supremacy of the ancient Hindu culture. And, just in case you don't know, the ancient Hindu religion was often known as "Arya-Dharma", or the way of life of the Aryans. Who used a specific religious symbol, the Swastika. And today, those two cultures are involved in a very public display of discord. Sanskrit was ...
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The Peanut Express: The Yakshini
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Tuesday, August 2, 2011. As Norman Scott walked out of the NHK office in New Delhi, he had a smile on his face. He got what he wanted. And all he wanted, was to stay in Calcutta. When he quit the beeb, his boss at the time had asked him why he wanted to stay on in Calcutta. He had asked if there was a girl involved. Norman had said " maybe. And then, a sudden shiver went through his spine, because, he thought that the Yakshini. Had smiled at him. Briefly. That night...
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The Peanut Express: April 2014
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Sunday, April 13, 2014. The Aardvark or the Lark? Summer holidays in India can be extremely boring. As a child, I used to get pretty excited in April, about the impending holidays. Around this time of the year, you could still find the red and orange Palash. Flowers on the hilly trails of Jharkhand. The Lantana. While Mr. Modi may have been condemned for being biased, the esteemed "newspaper" cannot claim to be completely free of the same hazardous human inflict...
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The Peanut Express: May 2014
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Those Bundles of Papyrus. Recently, I read an intriguing comment on this blog, asking me what my favorite books were. It has been a while since I have thought about that question. No other British writer has ever appealed to me, not even the great bard, whose plays, I do like to watch. Of all the Indian writers that I have ever read, I have three favorites. R. K. Narayan, though from times that are long gone, stirs the soul. K...Of the new cr...
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The Peanut Express: August 2014
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Monday, August 11, 2014. In my years in the land of the free, whenever the conversation turned to India's freedom movement, my American friends would ask me if Mahatma Gandhi was our "George Washington". My answer would always be an emphatic no. To me, George Washington was the general on horseback who drove the redcoats to the north. " In the rockets' red glare and the bombs bursting in the air. So, in Desi Babu's opinion, the government should consult the military...
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The Peanut Express: The Atheist and the Banyan Tree
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Thursday, January 13, 2011. The Atheist and the Banyan Tree. Ramanarayanan Krishnaswamy had three Hindu gods in his name, courtesy his extremely religious grandmother. He was from a very religious family of Iyengar Brahmins, who swore by the Gita, were pure vegetarians, and the family never had a member who smoke or drank. The banyan plant was holy. How could they remove it from where it decided to grow. If they did, it would bring great misfortune to them a...Mr Kr...
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The Peanut Express: The monkey and the fez hat
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Tuesday, February 8, 2011. The monkey and the fez hat. And then, there were the honeymooners. There were plenty of them at this time of the year. And you could tell them apart from the rest of the crowd, since they didn't care much for the things around them. Most of them were so absorbed in each other, that they could hardly care about the beer, the fresh-baked bread, or the live music. She was walking into her meeting when the phone rang. She froze for a momen...
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The Peanut Express: The Cauliflower Lady
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Shades of gray between happy and sad . Monday, December 13, 2010. What does it take for a thousand ships to sail for you? If you have read the story of Helen of Troy. The beautiful wife of Menelaus the Greek, you know about the thousand ships that sailed to win her back. The Trojan horse is a piece of legend that we all have read or heard about. Another question. What does it take for a passenger train drawn by a steam engine to stop for you, in the middle of the beautiful hills of Jharkhand? When I reac...
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