What Will Happen to Slumdog's Child Stars?

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First, Rubiana Ali and Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, both 9 years old, starred in an Oscar-winning motion picture. Now they are appearing in real-life soap operas. The paparazzi are everywhere, as are reporters who want to talk to the kid stars of Slumdog Millionaire. Their lives are making the gossip columns and headlines in their native India — and overseas.
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Why India's Teachers Do Not Spare the Rod

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According to a 2007 joint study by UNICEF, Save the Children and the Indian government, 65% of school-going children have faced corporal punishment. Ayub Khan, Shanno's father, a waiter without a regular job, says in an interview with TIME that he is determined "to get justice for his daughter."
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School Is a Right, but Will Indian Girls Be Able to Go?

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The day the Indian government made education a fundamental right for 192 million children, Dimple Yadav, 11, woke up at 4:30 in the morning. Eyes heavy with sleep, she cleaned her house (in a village about 24 miles outside the capital), made tea and got busy preparing food for her family. After her parents, who work as laborers in Delhi, left at 6 a.m., Dimple fed and clothed her 5- and 7-year-old siblings and made her way to the local school with them in tow.
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The Battle for Mother Teresa's Remains

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The city was thus thrown into shock this week when it learned that Albania, the country of Mother Teresa's parents, had demanded that her remains be returned before her birth centenary in August 2010. One of the nuns at Mother House was appalled. She couldn't understand why the country would want the Mother's remains back when it had so little connection to her.
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Icon's Death: What Now for India's Communists?

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In a political career that spanned all of India's 61 years as an independent nation, Jyoti Basu, 95, was the face of India's Communist Party. He was epitome of a certain kind of leftist — urbane, westernized and a skilled power broker — and his death on Jan. 17 has prompted eulogizing from every corner of Indian public life.
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India's Mumbai Verdict: Next Move, Pakistan's?

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An Indian court on Monday afternoon ruled that a Pakistani gunman, Mohammad Amir Ajmal Qasab, was guilty of carrying out the 2008 Mumbai terrorism attacks — an outcome that was widely expected. The question that most in India are asking now is whether Qasab's trial will force Pakistan to crack down on terrorism.
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The End of an Era to Two Indian Road Classics

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The car's chocolate-colored exterior is faded and, without a leather cover, the steering is scorching hot in the sun. The Maruti 800 — India's original people's car before the Nano came along — looks dated. The modest hatchback, and the Bajaj Chetak, India's answer to the Vespa, captured the imagination of the Indian middle class in the 70s and 80s and kept them buying for decades. But the small car and the scooter, long ubiquitous on roads throughout India, are no longer the toast of India's aspiring middle class. Over the last month, both companies have announced that they will be phasing out these beloved classics.
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