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How Poetry Can Improve Meditation

Intent | Posted 10.30.2012 | Healthy Living
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Intent

The words of poet Rabindranath Tagore fall with velvety warmth from Deepak Chopra's lips. They seem perfectly crafted for this purpose, settling gently around the stillness of a meditator.

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Mass Exodus: 50,000 Flee Burnt Homes, Gruesome Killings

AP | WASBIR HUSSAIN | Posted 09.23.2012 | World
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GAUHATI, India — Troops sent to quell clashes over land rights in northeast India killed five people Tuesday after the government ordered them t...

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Will the Sun rise from India's East?

Sunil Sharan | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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Sunil Sharan

All parts of India have given birth to a prime minister, except the eastern. Subhash Chandra Bose and Jyoti Basu, both sons of the East, came close to...

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Somali Pirates Tell Their Side

The Real News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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The Real News

Shashank Bengali reports for McClatchy from more than 25 countries and covered conflicts in Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq and Georgia. Before moving t...

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Jim Luce

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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