Indian Chat: THE TIMES OF INDIA: If it's Malleswaram, it must be...
BANGALORE: Say Jayanagar, and most Bangaloreans will remember the range of dosas offered at Dosa Camp in III Block, which they have savoured at one time or the other.This is true of every pocket in the city. Each one of them boasts of a host of popular eating joints which almost become synonymous with the place. While localites hang out at these places regularly, people from far off areas go once in a while to check them out, or make it a point to drop in whenever they are passing by....
Indian Chat: Chat's economic potential could move mountains
MIAMI, OK - Moving mountains could help the health of northeastern Oklahoma's children and provide a $500 million economic boom, some local and state leaders think. An estimated 75 million tons of contaminated mining waste, known to locals as "chat," form mountains up to 200 feet high in these parts.That's enough chat to fill 5,000 trains with 100 cars each.For years, many have viewed the lead-heavy chat as an environmental problem. Now,...
Indian Chat: Check Out TIME Asia Online
TIME, Asiaweek and CNN have joined forces to produce AsiaNow,the Internet's most comprehensive source of news, information and analysis about Asia DAILY WEB COLUMNS Asia Buzz www.timeasia.com/asiabuzz Insider views on current topics --MONDAY Quirky takes on Asian culture and society from TIME Asia deputy editor Adi Ignatius --TUESDAY and THURSDAY Tech talk with Singapore correspondent Eric Ellis --WEDNESDAY TIME East Asia correspondent Terry McCarthy pursues...
Indian Chat: Sitcoms no longer middle-class
FOR a long time the Brits were regarded as the world leader in television sitcoms. Monty Python's Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister, Mr Bean and Blackadder are regarded as classics, while ABC viewers have also grown up on shows such as Some Mothers Do Have 'Em, Are You Being Served?, The Goodies, Dad's Army, The Good Life and To the Manor Born - all of which could be accused of harbouring and engendering white middle-class values.``Really, you...
Indian Chat: Another broken promise
PICHER - The tons of mining wastes produced by some of the nation's largest lead and zinc mines originally were seen as an economic safety net for area Indian tribes. That's become just another broken promise.The mine tailings - the local term is "chat" - were sold for years as playground, road and driveway fill by Indians, who own most of the land in the Tri-State Mining District, where Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas meet.However, two...