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Articles with tag: transit

Human Trafficking: The Great Commodity Exchange

Shantanu Dutta   Jan 16, 2009   interacts: 3

While no comprehensive study of forced and bonded labour can ever be completed, there are estimates that the trafficking “industry� touches 20 to 65 million Indians.

Sonal Shah to Help Divide Obama's Victory Spoils

Riaz Haq   Nov 10, 2008   interacts: 139

It is ironic that both Emanuel and Shah, with close ties to far-right politics in Israel and India, have become part of the supposedly liberal elite assembled by the Obama campaign

Yet Another Immigrant Story

Madiha Qureshi   Jul 2, 2008   interacts: 72

I arrived in the US about eight months ago, to get married in Houston and move to Maryland, where I live now. My last visit had been less than a year ago, during which I met my husband.

A Paean to my Family

farukh pracha   Feb 22, 2005   interacts: 7

Chachijan -- one of my earliest memories is one of those spool tapes on which my father invites her to sing with the words “Azra Apa, ub aap” – and she sang the Ghalib ghazal “Nukta cheen hai” for she had a melodious voice an

The New Beginning

Mohammad Gill   Nov 1, 2004   interacts: 37

My story is the story of many thousands of other people on both sides of the line. I regard myself lucky in one way that my family and I didn’t suffer any loss of limb....

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