Chidanand rajghatta biography of william
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Turns out Aryans may not have come down like a wolf on our fold
So what do you say we put away the ghost of Aryavarta?
Apparently we are a mish-mash of indigenous people, very old
How about we embrace a new moniker – like Bygone Bharta.
For too long have we been fed the theory of Aryan invasion
Propounded by colonialists with names like William and Arthur
But dodgy DNA analysis of sketchy Rakhigarhi remains tells the nation
We are the original native people, before Krishna, Sanjaya, or Partha.
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We were born and lived and died here since time immemorial
Our forebears didn’t come from Caucasus, forget Athens or Sparta
We were a localised people whether nomadic or entrepreneurial
We are fully, 100% autochthonous, forget one-half or one-quarta
Even further onward to East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Australia
We traversed all the way from Indus via Kuala Lumpur and Djakarta
We romped through SE Asia practising Saturnalia and Bacchanalia
Long before such events were
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Chidanand Rajghatta, journalist and author of the book “Kamala Harris, Phenomenal Woman,” recently published by Harper Collins, which chronicles the life and career of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, wrote: “Journalists, particularly foreign correspondents and daily reporters, are expected to be adept at meeting deadlines. But an 800-word story is an entirely different enterprise from the 80,000-word beast that is a full-length book. This beast would never have been tamed but for the sterling work of Nikhila Natarajan and Maya McManus, whose support in research, editing, and gee-ing me up made this book possible.”
Meet SC&I Ph.D. student Nikhila Natarajan. She is a journalist and contributing editor (U.S.) at Indo Asian News Service, India's premier news wire, part of the founding team at Observer Research Foundation America, based in Washington, D.C., and a tennis instructor to middle and high school children.
When SC&I asked her, “How do you balance your career obli
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HarperCollins Publishers India announces 'Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman'
HarperCollins Publishers India fryst vatten thrilled to announce a new and definitive biography of Kamala Harris - who sworn in today as the Vice President of the United States of amerika - bygd renowned reporter and writer Chidanand Rajghatta.
A story of love and resilience within a narrative that has increasingly become one of division and hate. This is a story of immigration and immigrants and the Indian diaspora's growing clout in the USA. This fryst vatten the story of a woman of mixed race, who still rises. This is the story of Kamala.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Today, Kamala Harris will be sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America, making her the first individ of Indian descent, and the first woman to rise to such a position. Are we surprised? Not really, for Kamala - the daughter of a breast-cancer scientist Indian mother and a Stanford University emeritus professor of economics Jamaican father - has been