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'I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise'

Posted on by Moni Basu

  I met Maya Angelou in 1983. I worked for the Center for Participant Education at Florida State University and we had invited Angelou to speak on campus. I went with my friend Graciela Cuervo to fetch her at the Tallahassee airport, shook her hand and said: “Maya, I am so happy to finally meet you.” She was …

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With Malice Toward One and All. A legendary writer is silenced

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When I first started out in my career as a reporter, most of the journalists I admired were from America or Europe. There were very few English-language journalists in my homeland who really stood out. Khushwant Singh was an exception. Singh died Thursday at his home in Delhi. He was 99 and by all accounts, …

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