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Oscar-winning director sees film's positive impact
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A short film about a poor Indian girl with a cleft lip fetched filmmaker Megan Mylan her maiden Oscar this year, and now she can't wait to do more films that could help improve people's lives. Full Article
Oscar-winning "Smile Pinki" director eyes change through film
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - A short film about a poor Indian girl with a cleft lip fetched filmmaker Megan Mylan her maiden Oscar this year, and now she can't wait to do more films that could help improve people's lives. Full Article
India steps up effort to bring back Gandhi memorabilia
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government intensified efforts to buy back some personal belongings of iconic leader Mahatma Gandhi from an auction in New York as a New Delhi court injunction may have failed to halt the sale. Full Article
Star of "Smile Pinki," India's other Oscar, back home
RAMPUR DHABAHI, India (Reuters Life!) - She's not as famous as the child actors of "Slumdog Millionaire," but Pinki Sonkar is a legend in the Indian village that once ostracized her, thanks to cleft-lip surgery and another Oscar-winning film. Full Article
Relative fights to buy Gandhi legacy on sale
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, India's iconic freedom hero, is appealing to Indians for money to buy some of the leader's personal belongings in a New York auction and keep them in a museum. Full Article
Indian website plays cupid for HIV/AIDS patients
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Widowed at 30, HIV- positive Chhaya Tope had resigned herself to a life of loneliness, but a website for Indians afflicted with AIDS has given her another chance at love. Full Article
India's young politicians win praise on YouTube
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thousands of users on YouTube, the popular video-sharing website, are toasting two young Indian politicians, one of them seen as a potential prime minister, after they spoke eloquently in a parliamentary debate last week. Full Article
Boy or girl? India's hermaphrodites slowly fit in
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Born with both male and female genitalia, a life of uncertainty seemed to await Ali and his family, but changing attitudes means hermaphrodites once-scorned in India are finding their place. Full Article
Indian doctors urged to neaten writing to save lives
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Doctors have long been the butt of jokes for their illegible handwriting, but GPs in India are being urged to neaten and computerize their scrawl to prevent patients being given wrong drugs that could prove deadly. Full Article
In India, naming a baby is serious business
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - Hate your name? In India, chances are your parents, neighbors, well-meaning relatives, religious tradition, and even the Internet, are all to blame. Full Article
