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Dolce & Gabbana showcases Alta Moda couture collection

Dolce & Gabbana showcased its latest couture collection in Milan last week. The private catwalk for some of D & G’s best clients, was held in the label’s new salon…

Graffinis MTA Graffiti-inspired one-piece halter swimsuit.

The swimwear inspired by psychics and NY graffiti

Think swimwear, and you automatically think California and Malibu, clean waters, and blue sky. However, since its founding in 2010, Graffinis — an edgy New York-based swimwear label, popular on…

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India commemorates Republic Day

India commemorated the 64th Republic Day on Saturday, January 26. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh paid homage to the unknown soldier at the red sandstone India Gate war memorial in New Delhi….

Inappropriate? Model cowgirl in Target's diaper ad.

Target ad campaign: everyday chic? Or wide of the mark?

Everyday products can, we’ve discovered, be repackaged and rehabilitated. Mash potato, regarded, only a decade ago, as a food made by mother for their children, is now a staple of…

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H. G. Wells: Mysticism and Machinery

Those who might nowadays think of Herbert George Wells (1866 – 1946) – they run to fewer and fewer with the passing years – will rarely, or perhaps never, have…

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Putrajaya, Malaysia’s admn. Capital, to have 1st Hindu temple

Putrajaya, the seat of Malaysia government, will have its first Hindu temple in the near future. Reports suggest that the required approval has been granted and after groundbreaking ceremonies in…

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The YiJing and Revolution

It is about seventeen years since I have taken an actively skeptical view of the Yijing, the Chinese Book of Changes. Ever since, I have followed the ongoing debate at a distance…

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Proving Reincarnation

Michiel Hegener is a Dutch journalist who has kept his personal memories of reincarnation to himself for many years. He immediately sensed , and is now in a position to…

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Soldiers’ brutality revives talk of Pakistan as terror state

“Inhuman and barbaric,” is how Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Ravi Shankar Prasad described an attack by Pakistani troops on Indian soldiers on Wednesday, and the subsequent beheading of one of the Indian…