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Same Language Subtitling on Bollywood film songs, a solution for India’s illiteracy problems.
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On Saturday May 16th, India's ruling Congress Party was kept in power, winning an astonishing 262 votes, its best results since 1990. Just ten votes short of the 272 needed for a parliamentary majority, it will be able to govern without the need to make deals with regional parties. The markets responded with a resounding 17 percent surge in share prices, its biggest one-day-gain in three decades. Yet this was a victory margin none of the pundits saw coming. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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One of the most common scenes on Indian trains are men with their belongings on their backs, heading out to the big cities in search of a better life. Many of them come from the state of Bihar, where moving miles away from home for work is the only way for their families to simply subsist at home. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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Have you ever wondered how airline crew manage to look younger than their years despite their hectic travel schedules? Carmen Roberts shares the beauty secrets of a group of flight attendants who fly in and out of the Indian city of Mumbai.
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It is best known to outsiders as Calcutta where the famed nun Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity to serve the dying in the city in 1950. Since then, the city has been renamed Kolkata and is witnessing a transformation in its political landscape. The state of West Bengal where it is located has been a traditional stronghold of India's Communist Party. That now may change, as the party and the state find themselves at the crossroads of tradition and progress. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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A certain dedication to the family that propels millions of rural Indians to leave the comfort of home for the city. They send back money and sometimes along with it, the seeds of a revolution. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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How nations divide up the Arctic could set precedence for the Moon.
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In November 2003 India celebrated the 40th anniversary of its space programme. The celebration attracted little attention outside the country, even among space enthusiasts. Everyone else was too busy soaking up the implication of China’s first manned space flight, which was launched successfully in October and placed China as the third space power after the US and Russia.
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The founder of Indonesia's Salim Group has set his eyes on another empire — this time in India.
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The freedom to choose their government was a hard-won victory from the British for the people of India more than 60 years ago. Today, they still go to surprising lengths to honour that right, as Karishma Vaswani learns when she goes voting with a Mumbaikar. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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Karishma Vaswani shows theasiamag.com the highlights of this astounding metropolis of 18 million and makes sense of the economic spectrum of people who call this city home. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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If there is an Indian Dream, Mumbai is the place where locals believe it will come true. As India Votes 2009 Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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