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Publisher’s Note
Feeling It In Your Bones
It’s a nagging concern we all have as we write a column every Saturday on the state of
grow older – Osteoporosis. In this issue, Dr affairs of Nouveau Rich Indians (NRIs).
Darius Soonawala writes extensively on the No other culture celebrates the rain as India
condition that every man and woman must does. It’s that time of the year where the rain
know about. He has explained the ins and outs god impregnates mother nature and life
of Osteoporosis in easy terms, making it an springs forth. Music, poetry, literature, all
informative guide for seniors. celebrate the arrival of the monsoon. We bring
As tensions with China rise, it is valuable to you 20 of the most popular old Hindi rain
look back at the China-India conflict of 1962, songs. Even without a wet saree clinging to the
which India’s first war correspondent, the heroine’s body, the sweet longing of O Sajna
late Sati Sahni, wrote about in 1986. It was the Barkha Bhaar Aayi is a classic that will remain
worst setback to the Indian Army, and China is along with all popular Hindi numbers for
a bully that refuses to go away. China inflicted times to come. Rain dances are the soft porn
the coronavirus on the world; yet the big boys of Hindi cinema. My favourite is the classic
have only talked – nobody has really stood up Barsan Lagi Badariya Rum Jhum Ke…
to China or retaliated in any significant way.
Will China be the next super bully?
Travel writer Navneet Sahni, puts together
specialised tours for the senior community,
writes about walking in the Himalayas and
the Kumaon region. Houston-based journalist
Minoo Shah writes about Indians in the US, Vickram Sethi
focusing on the Gujarati community. She will Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
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