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Composite culture through ghazals, The Hindustan Times, By N.C. Menon, March 1999

India and America might still be finding it difficult to retrieve their relations from post-Pokhran stress, but Indian-Americans here are going blithely ahead, settling down comfortably in this country and building a composite culture that takes in the best of both worlds.

This is particularly true in two areas: Religion and Music.

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Hindu temples are proliferating in America: Not makeshift structures where devotees drop in on “auspicious” religious occasions, but grand multi-million-dollar edifices with qualified priests, and providing facilities for community activities.

Similarly, there are individuals and organizations catering to the expatriate Indians’ yearning for music from back home. It is a measure of their quality and effectiveness that the audience at the functions organized by them contains a fair sprinkling of Americans adventurous enough sample wha