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Reading Suggestions: Day 35

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Recommendation 1 from ‘The Hindu’

Article Name:On disability, missing the bigger picture

By: Dorodi Sharma

There is reason to be optimistic about the UN report on disability rights, but there is also disappointment at its failure to make the poverty connection.

Summary:

The article talks about the large number of people with disabilities and ways to deal with the same.

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Envisage: to visualize
Dearth: lack of something

Recommendation 2 from ‘The Times Crest Edition’

Article Name:Millionaire matchmakers

By: Priya M Menon

Matrimonial services exclusively for super wealthy Indians don’t just hawk horoscopes today.

Summary:

The article talks about the growing Matrimonial services industry and the services they offer.

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Affluent: wealthy
Environs: outskirts of a city

Recommendation 3 from ‘The Economic Times’

Article Name:Yoga is being shorn of Hindu cultural ties in the land of the free

By: ET Bureau

Yoga doesn’t promote Hinduism any more than performing Bach’s music promotes Lutheranism.

Summary:

The article talks about Judge John Meyer who declared yoga secular enough to be taught in Encinitas Union School District, California.

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Paranoia: a mental disorder.
Hogwash: worthless stuff.

 

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