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by Paul Chaderjian Naples - Scents that would whet even a vegetarian's appetite waft through Andre's Steakhouse, at the northeast corner of Tamiami and 28th Avenue. The front and back parking lots are full, and there are no empty parking spots on the street. It's the last Saturday night of February, and Andre's is packed like it is every night during "the season," when tourists and retirees converge on Florida's Paradise Coast, off the Gulf of Mexico.   Enter the epicurean wonderland of Andre's, and there is not one empty table. The steakhouse is full of loyal patrons of all ages - some in shorts and T-shirts and others in short-sleeved shirts or summer dresses. It's the dead of winter, but one can easily forget the blizzards blanketing the Midwest and Northeast in snow. There is laughter, people talking, someone making a toast in one corner, and half a dozen clean-cut waiters - dressed in white shirts and bowties - dance a perfectly chor...

BURBANK, Calif. - The English-language “Hotline” talk show debuted last Friday night at midnight (Pacific Time) on US-Armenia TV, which broadcasts in Southern California on over-the-air, antenna TV (KSCI 18.5), on Charter and Time-Warner cable, on satellite in the United States via Globecast, and in Europe and Armenia on the Hotbird satellite. For the past four years, program host Paul Chaderjian has interviewed more than a hundred guests who were working or were involved with projects in Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. “The interview show idea came to life when Armenia TV asked me to go to Armenia and help with the coverage of the 90th Anniversary of the Genocide in 2005,” said Chaderjian, who is a former ABC News writer-producer and one of the former hosts of the annual Armenia Fund Thanksgiving Day telethon. “I helped Armenia TV set up a live transmission to CNN, The Associated Press, and a few European news agencies,” said Chaderjian. “We wanted to show the world how impor...

Based in Dubai, Setrakian covers the Gulf states and beyond by Paul Chaderjian DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – You’ve seen her on the ABC evening news, on Good Morning America, and on the round-the-clock ABC News Now cable-satellite-Internet network. You’ve heard her voice on ABC News Radio, and you’ve read her bylines from Beirut, Tehran, and cities of the United Arab Emirates, where she resides and works. “Nowadays they say, Dubai, Mumbai, Shanghai or bye-bye. That’s the line. This is where the growth is. This is where the money is. It’s different and it’s fast pace, and they know they have some sense of what they want,” she explains to me the enigma of Dubai as we sit feet away from the Dubai Marina. “And you see other cities in the Gulf trying to create for themselves the same effect. They’re not trying to copy Dubai. They’re trying to do it their way. Qatar and Doha, Abu Dhabi is trying to do it. Everyone is trying to ramp up. They don’t want to let this oil boom pass by...

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...