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America
in our lives
Hollywood
flicks. MTV chicks. Mcburgers. Sandy Bergers. Cola wars. Cold wars. Consumer
greed. Terminator seed. We may love it. We may hate it. We cannot escape
America. It is willy-nilly moving into our living rooms and lives. Ain’t
it, asks Shobhan Saxena |
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Coke
and Big Mac country
By
Vijay Simha |
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Rocking
round the clock
India
came to terms with rock ‘n’ roll when Shammi Kapoor swung it
like Elvis in Chinatown, say K. Vikram
&
Vineetha Mokkil |
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Aamchi
Mumbai with New York’s soul
Thousands come
to Mumbai, which, like New York, offers life giving quality of hope, Sonia
Faleiro |
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Dude,
this is my language
Earlier, the
slogan was ‘Be English, speak English’; now it’s ‘Be
a Yankee, speak like one’, says Aman
Khanna |
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Growing
up with Barbie
By
Irene O'Brian
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Jeans
for all seasons
By
Leo Mirani
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Imported
from America, shown in India
By
Vineetha Mokkil
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Uncle
Sam, a friend or a foe?
Globalisation
can’t experience Gandhi. That is why you have Coke and Pepsi in the
interiors of India, but not quinine, writes Amit
Sengupta |
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Northeast
story: always two steps ahead
By
Nitin A. Gokhale
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The
hour of the Red and the angst of the Blue
Bush’s
poll victory throws up several new challenges for American polity, writes
S. Ravi Rajan |
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At
home in the United States
Temples, gurdwaras, south Indian restaurants, Ramlilas — America is
becoming a mini India, reports Gurmukh Singh |