An iconic image of Mumbai – the Haji Ali mausoleum, 500 yards off the shoreline in the glittering Arabian sea – attracted controversy Tuesday after a Muslim women’s group said women have been banned from entering the inner tomb.Barring women from the centuries-old tomb is against the spirit of Islam and against rights enshrined in the Indian constitution, said the group, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan.“It’s...
Nov
06
India Ink: Mumbai's Historic Haji Ali Bans Women From Most Sacred Area
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Nov
05
A Media Vow of Election Night Restraint Despite Social Media Clamor
Label: BusinessThis has been the year of the big media gaffe. NBC News edited a 911 tape of George Zimmerman in a way that implied race as a factor in the Trayvon Martin shooting. CNN and Fox News falsely reported that the Supreme Court had struck down the individual mandate at the heart of the Obama administration’s health care law. ABC News wrongly suggested a link between a mass shooting in Colorado...
Well: Winter Squash Recipes for Health
Label: HealthSome of the more varied vegetables of fall all go by the same name: squash. But as Martha Rose Shulman explains in this week’s Recipes for Health, you can discover new flavors by cooking with a squash of a different color.This week it’s hard not to think about pumpkins, even though most of you won’t be cooking your jack-o’-lanterns. But along with the pumpkins in bins outside my supermarket, there...
Well: Winter Squash Recipes for Health
Label: LifestyleSome of the more varied vegetables of fall all go by the same name: squash. But as Martha Rose Shulman explains in this week’s Recipes for Health, you can discover new flavors by cooking with a squash of a different color.This week it’s hard not to think about pumpkins, even though most of you won’t be cooking your jack-o’-lanterns. But along with the pumpkins in bins outside my supermarket, there...
Critic’s Notebook: ‘Start-Ups: Silicon Valley’ and ‘LOLwork’ on Bravo
Label: Technology When word got out about “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley,” the valley started to have conniptions. Among the more clever responses was a tweet by a TechCrunch editor: “Here Comes Silicon Valley Boo Boo.” Bravo The siblings Ben and Hermione Way bumble through a presentation after...
Nov
04
Google Casts a Big Shadow on Smaller Web Sites
Label: BusinessAnnie Tritt for The New York TimesJeffrey G. Katz, the chief executive of Wize Commerce, seen with employees. He says that about 60 percent of the traffic for the company’s Nextag comparison-shopping site comes from Google. In a geeky fire drill, engineers and outside consultants at Nextag scrambled to see if the problem was its own fault. Maybe some inadvertent change had prompted Google’s algorithm...
Opinion: Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do
Label: HealthHALLUCINATIONS are very startling and frightening: you suddenly see, or hear or smell something — something that is not there. Your immediate, bewildered feeling is, what is going on? Where is this coming from? The hallucination is convincingly real, produced by the same neural pathways as actual perception, and yet no one else seems to see it. And then you are forced to the conclusion that something...
Opinion: Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do
Label: LifestyleHALLUCINATIONS are very startling and frightening: you suddenly see, or hear or smell something — something that is not there. Your immediate, bewildered feeling is, what is going on? Where is this coming from? The hallucination is convincingly real, produced by the same neural pathways as actual perception, and yet no one else seems to see it. And then you are forced to the conclusion that something...
Corner Office | John Duffy: John Duffy of 3C Interactive, on Inspiration and Aspiration
Label: Technology Q. Tell me about your leadership approach. A. Consistency is important to me. I think my partners and employees appreciate the fact that you get the same John Duffy every day, regardless of the circumstances. You don’t have to think about how to approach me. If one of my employees told me that they had to think about what my mood was on a particular day — “How is he? Can we talk?” — I’d quit....
Benghazi Attack Raises Doubts About U.S. Abilities in Region
Label: WorldEsam Omran Al-Fetori/ReutersThe attack at the American Mission on Sept. 11, seen here, and an annex in Benghazi, Libya, points to a limitation in the capabilities of the American military command responsible for countries swept up in the Arab Spring. WASHINGTON — About three hours after the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, came under attack, the Pentagon issued an urgent call for an...
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