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Two broadcast journalists’ eyewitness account of the harsh realities in India by Paul Chaderjian Tangra, India - The scene is hell on Earth - a revolting, gagging smell, eye-irritating smog, thousands of years of filth,, with fresh refuse being dumped onto the street. Humans live like savages. Naked kids defecate on the street. Men urinate out in the open. Rats run in puddles of human waste on streets people call home. Rabid and sickly dogs dig through garbage for food. This is the "incredible" India the ads on CNN sing about. And in this incredible India are two old friends - Ani Hovannisian-Kevorkian and me - stumbling out of tour buses to enter the grounds of the Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Tangra, a suburb of Kolkata.  Security guards separate residents staring with great interest from the foreign tourists that include Ani and me. Ani anchored the English News on Horizon TV every Saturday night decades ago when there was only one week...

Liberation ideologists in India: Forebears of modern Armenian political parties Armenians in India – a seminar Richard Hovannisian highlights the visionaries of Madras by Paul Chaderjian   Published: Monday November 24, 2008 Tangra, India - A hundred years before the late-19th-century Armenian revolutionaries made history, a group of intellectuals in Madras was already laying the blueprint of why Armenians should think about emancipation from Turks and Persians, what an independent Armenian government would guarantee its citizens, and how a free homeland and diaspora communities should be ruled. The contemporaries of the American and French revolutionaries, the Armenians of Madras were one of the most important topics discussed by Armenian history scholar Richard Hovannisian at a seminar at the community center of the Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Tangra on Tuesday, November 14. The former chairperson of the Armenian Community Council of India opened the se...

Two broadcast journalists’ eyewitness account of the harsh realities in India by Paul Chaderjian Tangra, India - The scene is hell on Earth - a revolting, gagging smell, eye-irritating smog, thousands of years of filth with fresh refuse being dumped onto the street. Humans live like savages. Naked kids defecate on the street. Men urinate out in the open. Rats run in puddles of human waste on streets people call home. Rabid and sickly dogs dig through garbage for food. This is the "incredible" India the ads on CNN sing about. And in this incredible India are two old friends - Ani Hovannisian-Kevorkian and me - stumbling out of tour buses to enter the grounds of the Holy Trinity Armenian Church in Tangra, a suburb of Kolkata.   Security guards separate residents staring with great interest from the foreign tourists that include Ani and me. Ani anchored the English News on Horizon TV every Saturday night decades ago when there was only one weekly...

History comes to life in Tangra, India by Paul Chaderjian   Published: Monday November 24, 2008 Kolkata, India - Students at the Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy welcomed Catholicos Karekin II and guests from around the world as part of the weeklong celebrations of Armenians in India that took place the second week of November. One of the guests, noted scholar Richard G. Hovannisian, spoke to the Armenian Reporter about the Wednesday, November 12, program at the college. RGH: I thought it was a very well done collage of Armenian history, the sadness of it, the occasional retreats and ultimately the spirit optimism and survival and going ahead despite all the obstacles and giving hope for the future. I thought it was very well done. I saw around me a great deal of emotion from everyone who witnessed it. It was done by the students, and I thought it was very creative. The overall program was interesting. I would like to have seen, maybe with all the...