Jahan, one of the most important children in my life, is half Indian and half Caucasian, living part time in Goa, India and part time in the US, as his parents run their NGO.
Because the main character, Connor Kenway, is of mixed heritage (half American Indian, half British), he also looked into the Native American culture from that time to help develop the character.
Sales and profits had both doubled, and it had captured more than half of the Indian market, becoming the world's fifth-largest maker of wind-turbine generators.
Sri Lanka's economy, growing by some 7%, gets about half of all Indian investment in South Asia, and Indian banks, hotels and fund managers have been crowding south.
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These trucks are decked out in classic Indian style: half fairground carousel and half Hindu temple, with vermilion and sunshine yellow as the favoured colours.
The survey predicts that nearly half the additions to the Indian labour force over the period 2011-2030 will be in the 30-49 age group and says more needs to be done to provide this group with jobs in "higher-productivity" sectors.
The IPL is a city-based league aiming to build up fan bases in half-a-dozen big Indian cities.
On average, Indian citizens drink only half a litre of beer per year.
Dubai's Emaar Properties, which is building the world's tallest tower in Dubai, has invested more than half a billion dollars in an Indian joint venture.
Even Texas Instruments, which has had facilities in Bangalore since 1985, has felt the pinch of this start-up bug: some half a dozen of its top Indian engineers recently left to strike out on their own.
The Indian government said (rather half-heartedly) that it would appeal against this ruling.
Coutts has beefed up its non-resident Indian team in the past half-year with six new hires in Dubai, London and Singapore, bringing the bank's NRI team to 60 including support staff.
But Indian outsourcing giants sponsor more than half the 65, 000 skilled-worker permits, known as H1-B visas, that the U.S. issues annually to workers with at least a bachelor's degree.
The immigration bill, the larger point of which is to boost border security and provide a path to citizenship for 11 million people living illegally in the U.S., would impose steep fees for companies such as Indian outsourcers that have more than half their U.S. staff on the permits and also require them to pay higher salaries.
Twenty years ago, foreigners, mostly low-paid workers from the Indian subcontinent, made up less than half the population.
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And Mackenzie's half-brother, Tamerlane, the follower of an Indian guru, is having none of it.
When he woke, the carriage was half empty and there was a man who looked part Indian sitting beside him, reading a Batman comic book.
Stealing a march over SingTel, Vodafone recently secured advance approval from the Indian government to take its holding up to nearly half.
But surface temperatures in all six of the ocean basins he examined (the north and south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) have increased by about half a degree Celsius.
Indian trips to the U.S. rose by half to 345, 000 in 2005 from 1999.
This is the highest ever sales figure recorded for the first half of the year, buoyed by continued retail demand from the Indian and Chinese consumer markets and stronger than expected demand in America, De Beers said in its earnings report.
As the Indian economy has grown rapidly during the past decade and a half, the country has also experienced its own real estate boom, eclipsing the mania the U.S. experienced in the giddy markets of South Florida and Las Vegas.
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Indian producers retort that Bangladesh's jute factories, just under half of which are owned by the state, benefit from unfair export subsidies.
The left-handed Marsh has now scored three half-centuries in six innings for Australia, after he starred in the inaugural Indian Premier League tournament earlier this year.
The Oval was rocking to the beat of West Indian celebrations but the whole ground stood to applaud Gayle's 23-ball half-century, secured with a tidy single to log-off.
In 2010, after suspicions that crimes in Melbourne against Indian students were racially motivated, the number of university applications from India fell by half, reducing what is a big source of income for Australia (Indians are the second-largest group of foreigners studying in the country).
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She stays in Hanumant colony, a residential area barely half a kilometre away from the palace, where Ms Hurley and her new husband will get married Indian-style on Friday evening.
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Last year Indian gold-buying briefly dropped for six months, but then it roared back in the second half of the year.
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