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A Vegetarian’s guide to passionate sex

Posted in Health, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I hope this guide will add pleasure to the sexual lives of  India’s  unrecognized minorities aka “Vegetarians”.  According to Anthropological Survey of India, 88 per cent of Indians are non-vegetarians (cf The Life of the People of India, Dr.K.S.Singh,  Director General of ASI , 1993)  It says that 80 per cent of Hindus do eat [...]

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Alarming poverty in India: Global Hunger Index 2009

Posted in India Facts, Poverty, tagged , , on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The fresh hunger map of the world and the India State hunger index (ISHI) published by International Food policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has made lots of revelations to disillusion the common man of India about louder slogans on socio-economic development of the country, foreign direct investments in all sectors to improve the quality of life [...]

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Defence spending causes poverty in India

Posted in Armed Conflicts, Human Rights, India Facts, Poverty, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »

cartoon courtesy : www.tayzathuria.org.uk
According to the Global Peace Index, some $2.4 trillion (£1.5tr), or 4.4%, of the global economy “is dependent on violence”.  The world spends  around $1,000 billion annually on the military. In 2008, world military expenditure reached 1.46 trillion dollars, representing 2.4 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP).  At least two [...]

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665 million Indian defecate in the open space

Posted in Funny India, Health, India Facts, tagged , on October 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

A joint study by the World Health organisation and UNICEF ‘Diarrhoea: Why Children Are Still Dying and What Can Be Done’, also pointed out that India has the largest number of persons that defecate in the open worldwide. Out of a total of 2.5 billion people worldwide that defecate openly, 665 million belong to India.  [...]

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2.5 million Indians make US their home

Posted in India Facts, Indian Mass Migration, tagged , on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

WASHINGTON: Stating with no more than 700 persons moving from India to the US between 1820 and 1900, the ethnic Indian community in America has grown to 2.5 million in 2007, according to the report, Emigration, Immigration, and Diaspora Relations in India, released  by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC.
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