Chopra will debut in Guess ads in the December issues of Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Nylon and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.

**Beautiful. There is a Sophia Loren exoticness to her. And Bryan Adams is a fantastic photographer.

**What a beauty! Congratulation Guess.

**Indian women are so beautiful.Gorgeous.

**Yes!!!! A newborn Sophia Loren....Classy lady!

**This first picture reminds me of Sofia Loren or Claudia Cardinale, absolutely beautiful.

**she also reminds me of Eva Mendes!

**No wonder.... She was Miss World 2000

**WOW - SOPHIA LOREN-LIKE

**she kinda of looks like eva mendez in that photo......at least they went with a more "American" looking indian than an actual east indian.

**Well what happened to the real Indian looking Indian woman? It must always be a caricature of a white woman or she is good enough.
**She reminds me of a young Sophia Loren

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Labourers carry bricks to be baked in a kiln at a brickyard on the outskirts of Karad in Satara district, about 396km (246 miles) south of Mumbai.

**The more we read and learn about India the more we realize it is one very sad place where human life is little respected if at all. Women have few rights and rape is common with little, if any, punishment. The caste system is "illegal" but common and entrenched. Slavery is common as are young children working in dead end often filthy jobs in polluted work places for little pay. I've seen this with my own eyes. Poverty is mind boggling and much of the environment is a waste land because of staggering pollution. One is stunned by the conditions and the endless masses sleeping out on the streets in pretty much every city. Roads are undeveloped helping to insure endless tragic needless "accidents." But they do have their endless gods and goddess to pray to, light incense to, bow down to, and for doing pujas, prayers. They have endless silly stories of their gods and goddesses that are sold to the uneducated masses... who fall for the bs blindly. Good luck to India and her people to make the changes needed to move forward and become a caring, decent, modern society. Namaste...

**You mamma teaches you well. Really she should be given a credit for it since you are to young to know any thing. Ask your mamma to buy you a ticket to Africa, preferably West. You should come here and see how these people work to survive, you will not last a day but I garanty you will never make such a comment again. Not everything comes served on silver plate my dear, you need to go to Africa so you can start appriciating life more and show more respect to the less fortunate.

**And India thought they had it bad under the British Empire. Ya, they've really progressed alot since they won their independence in 1948.

**Yet we condone Slavery... Look at mostly everyones clothing manufacturing country ! Bed linens and more say - India, Thailand.......sold to us by - Walmart, Target... Christmas shopping coming up and how much stuff is " Made in China ? "

**Another misleading article. I have lived in India long enough to know what's happening there. I agree things are not the best and Indian's don't have great infrastructure and amenities. But one thing is all these low paying labour jobs and slavery are thing of the past. I know how much a plumber or mason charge per day now. It's very difficult to get such people as most of their children are going to school. A few are exploited for their labour but most of them demand money or they don't do the job which can not be done otherwise. In India, there's no fear of high taxes and you can run a household with very less income. If you lost a job life will trudge along happily even if you don't get a job for a year or two. It's not like that in the west, you'r life will turn upside down if you don't have a job. In this article the middle class westerners are compared to the lowest income group in India. I have friends in India who belong to the middle or upper middle class who are mostly into business or IT. Some run colleges, export timber, toys, shipping, computer IT related, there's one guy who is building 400 villas on the outskirts of the city of Chennai (jobs of few of the fellows who came to my mind). You might ask me ... "then what are you doing here?, why don't you go back ? I am ok as of now. When it becomes unmanageable I have to go back. As long as you have to work continuously just for paying bills you are a slave. How many of you can really quit your job and relax for a year? If you can not do that, then you're a slave.

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As a child in India, Saroo Brierley whereabouts of his family, Saroo started using Google Maps and Earth to jog his fading memory.

**You arer such a lucky guy to find a family that helps u along the way to find your lost family. They provide u everything that u need. U must be very thankful to God. God bless u, your biological family and the Tasmanian family most especially to Google maps.

**Wow, what a fantastic story - one of the best in a long, long, time.

**Its a journey that I have been on for the last 2 years. I can tell you from personal experience, that for the first while its a struggle not to give up and leave this world behind. But with so many friends, and a fantastic medical team behind me. It not only becomes impossible to give up. I will walk again, I will drive again, and I will drive semi truck again !!! One day SOON !!

**Wow, that's an amazing story. I can't imagine how scared he must have been when he woke up on that train. Happy endings are good.

**what a fantastic touching journey...God bless the adoptive mom for keeping the things that he brought with him so they could jog some of his memories...putting the map up to ignite the fire was brilliant...finally some good news technology at it's best :)

**What a heart-warming, fantastic story. I wish for you all he best in life and hope that you will never lose your family again.

**What an great inspiring story. My heart breaks when I hear his words. This was a terriable loss for both the birth parents and child....Happy to see the adopted parents did an outstanding job with this child who is now adult. They kept his heritage and the memory alive for him. Love.

**Great story and great ending. Kudos to adopted parents for keeping his roots alive and obviously educating him. Bet they make a movie of this saga.

**I read his story about one or two years ago. So happy for him that he finally found his mother. Congrat!

**These are the kinds of things that make technology great and worth it. Not easy to appreciate when dealing daily with loud calls, texting drivers etc.

**How wonderful that he was able to be reunited with his mom and the rest of his family after so many years. Lucky for all of them that they can now catch up on the years they missed.. There truly are happy endings to some stories and this is one of them for sure.

**i don't understand how he fell asleep and was just adopted by a family from tasmania? did no one try to find his family if he was only 5 years old?? something doesn't make sense here..

**Kinda scary how kids can get that lost and adopted out to others while no one is looking for them or a way to look for them in India.

**While I am very happy for this man, that he is able to close such deep void in his soul, how is it that his parents 'left' him on the train in the first place......?

**I don't get it. A child falls asleep on a train and the authorities put him up for adoption? No one thought to go back along the route to find his home? It's a train on tracks. Go back to the first stop and see if the child recognizes his home. At 5 , he should have even known his address or at least the name of his town.

**I hate to say it, but does anyone else feel like this was just an elaborate advertisement for Google Earth? I mean, don't get me wrong: I love Google Earth, but this seems a little shameless.

**I cried so hard when I saw this. How wonderful he found his Mom and has the means to give her a better life!

**Oh my gosh!! what a wonderful story!! I love you little/big boy and both your Tasmanian and Indian families - all of you are so very blessed...

**Wow what a wonderful story, I nearly lost my son when we lived in Dubai, many years ago, it still brings tears to my eyes when I think of it.

**Miracles and hard work, and of course determination. Inspiring story, so glad he is back with his family.

**A beautiful yet sad story for a five year old to wait this long. At least he made attempts to find his mother (many would rather no), and although his circumstances changed for the better he stayed humble enough to make his way to hug his mom and change his families' life forever! BLESSINGS.

**Great testimony from someone who never forgets the value of FAMILY!!! Great job for the creators of Google map..

**Truly amazing. God certainly had plans for this young man. Congratulations Saroo on finding your birth family again. How wonderful to have two families that love you. Wishing you the best in life.

**What an incredibly touching story. I couldn't imagine what any of them were going through the day he went missing. As a mom it would be the most heart wrenching experience. It's wonderful that he found them.

**all your people with their thumbs down, you just do not have compassion, go and find your heart, use an ice pick if you need to but warn it up.... might make you feel better , we all have are bad times but we still appreciate a good ending....for some one else.....

**I can't help it, but to ask - why his mother have never looked for him? why was he left on the train without looking for him ever again in the first place? Was this a train to nowhere,.....So if the kid wasn't all that lucky to have been found by a decent family to take care of him.....the mother never bothered to find her lost kid and find out what happened to him.....Sounds like a very sad story to me.

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People in India began sorting through the wreckage Sunday after Cyclone Phailin roared ashore.

 

**Indian met dept predicted correctly that wind speed will be around 200km/hr but US Navy met dept strongly against the India's prediction and said 320km/hr. As usual all the western media in favour of US. But finally , India's prediction was correct and all the western media is very silent on this as if they do not know anything about it.

**Excellent captions, CBC, with relevant detail and thoughtful writing. So many news sites publish photo galleries with the same caption for all pictures, or near-illiterate ones filled with typos. A picture's worth a thousand words, but the words do help to complete the story. Well done.

**As someone of Bangladeshi ancestry, I am all too familiar and aware of the tragedy and suffering brought about by cyclones, and so my thoughts a with the people of India today. My condolences to the bereaved, and my compliments to the authorities who prevented many, many more casualties.

**Thank God and the authorities, the casualty level was low as compared to the last one.


** I wish them all safety and peace through this and I hope that they don't have a nuclear facility in line with the cyclone. This is too much like Hurricane Sandy. I thought that that was supposed to be once in a hundred years. ????

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Dr. Nayna Patel, center, surrounded by surrogates at her clinic

*Women who choose to be surrogates, no matter where they live, should be honoured and praised for the very hard job they do. They provide a service that is hard on them physically and mentally all so someone who wants a child can have one. I respect and admire these women. As well, it is their bodies. They can choose what to do with them. It is disrespectful and misogynistic for anyone to tell them they can't do this just because they find it morally uncomfortable. Either a woman's body is hers to do with as she pleases or it isn't and it is the property of some man. Take your pick.

**People don't have an issue with American women being surrogates, and they are paid. And the approximately $15,000. an American gets paid does not help the American nearly as much as the $8,000. is going to help the Indian woman. Yet nobody says the American woman is being exploited. I think this is a good way for some poor women to make some serious cash. I wish I was younger and healthier, because I would do this. The money is life changing for the surrogate, and the baby is life changing for the infertile couple. It's a win/win situation. Now, if they have a library for the surrogates, and perhaps have them take a few online courses while they are staying there, that would be awesome. Imagine how empowering $8,000. and some knowledge is to an Indian woman. This is not exploitation at all.

**If this works for some people, then more power to them. I cannot imagine trying to have a baby for so many years and it not working out or having so many miscarriages. I am assuming that people want their own biological child over adopting one (and I respect their feelings about that) and it is probably cheaper than adopting a child in the US which is pretty sad. Especially in a country like India where men seem to have an advantage, why not give women the opportunity to be financially independent/stable?

**Obviously these women are choosing to be surrogate mothers they're not being forced. So in this case I see no issues. It seems to me to be a win win. These women get money that they desperately need and a couple gets a baby of their own that they've been wanting so desperately.

**As long as the "mothers" are being taken extra special care of, I think it's great! If a woman is willing to help another woman, it's a good thing regardless of what country she is from.

**It does raise ethical issues. But on the other hand, you are paying someone in China a minimal wage to build (create) your IPAD or IPhone so you can enjoy that. How does that differ from someone building (creating) a baby so you can love and raise it?

**The only thing I take issue with here is her assertion that an Indian woman can't bond with a white baby, even one she birthed. My son is not white and I am, and we bonded just fine! Otherwise though I don't have a problem with what they're doing.

**I was a gestational surrogate here in the US. And surrogates are paid far greater than $15K. The average is about $25K for a single, and upwards of $30K for multiples. 7 years ago, I was paid $20K for a single birth. But by the time you add attorney fees, medical coverage, life insurance, agency fees and IVF, it usually ends up costing the expectant parents $100K to $150K!! But I can see why people chose to go to India. First, it's far less expensive. Second, they have the opportunity to be involved every step of the way. I carried for a couple who lived on the other side of the country, and were only able to attend the birth because we scheduled an induction a week before the due date. Third, by having the baby in India and then bringing it here, there is far less risk of the surrogate wanting to be involved in the child's life. My contract actually stated my family and I (me, husband and children) were allowed 2 hours with the baby once it was born!! Needless to say, I did not enforce it. I never even held the baby, it wasn't mine to hold!
As far as the adoption comments, all I can say is this - my brother was adopted, although I loved him completely, he had severe mental and emotional issues which my parents were never told about. He was the product of rape, and displayed anger and rage from a very young age. Sadly, he killed himself and his best friend by intentionally driving into a tree at 65 mph, all because the friend didn't want to see the same movie my brother did. The other friend who did survive the wreck is paralyzed. My brother was 24, his friend 25. A parent knows a the genetic make up of a child born via surrogate (unless an egg or sperm donor is used), but could be playing a game of Russian roulette with a child who is adopted.

**I don't think their is anything wrong with surrogacy, it can be a wonderful thing. However I did find the part of the article disturbing where it mentioned that sometimes the surrogates are expected to care and breastfeed the infants while their biological parents work on paper work for a few weeks. Um, if you can afford to fly & live in India for your baby to be born then don't you think they could afford to purchase formula? It was also a little weird to state "these are Indian women giving birth to white babies so their is no emotional connection". Hmmm.... interesting.

**It is easy to criticized people when you have not being in the situation of wanting a child and not being able to have it. I being in fertility treatments for 7 years! I being in an ADOPTION list for 2!... What else we can do? I will not mind trying surrogacy in India as Canada is very unregulated compare to other countries, surrogacy here is very secretive and not easy... because is illegal to pay for it, but not illegal to cover expenses related to the pregnancy..

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Union Budget 2013: Chidambaram has it covered for insurers.

1. Within minutes of the Finance Minister finishing his Budget speech the CSO released data on economic growth for the 3rd quarter and shockingly the GDP growth has dropped to 4.5% in the third quarter. Is this what the UPA and Mr Chidambaram want to call as the inclusive growth model? So,if Modi has achieved 10% growth in agriculture that is not inclusive according to the FM; on the other hand the UPA which has brought the economy from above 9% down to 4.5% is a role model according to him. Thanks to NDA ruled states like Gujarat, Bihar, MP etc that India managed 5%; otherwise Mr Chidambaram and Congress had made up their mind to ensure negative growth for India.

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India's foreign exchange (forex) reserves decreased by $1.08 billion to $277.72 billion for the week ended Aug 23, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

1. Revised. Devaluation that impacts entire nation is Across the board. And lacks wisdom. If videshi wants to leech certain nation cheap by making iidiot X nation compete Y nation and we are bent on selling. Then give rupee subsidy over videshi currency earning. DEVALUATION of entire currency is wrong. Indian can give subsidy to each industry that trades with videshi. But devaluation is like selling entire home for sake of selling an apple. And dont believe in videshi nation grunt on subsidy for export when we give export subsidy as we scuttled their evil devaluation game. Reject predatory Devaluation system. Eventually dont trade under devaluation system. China is now self invested at a stage and has volume economy that they dont subsidize (without telling or showing) as much they used to beat competition. They can even manufacture quality equipment for manufacturng their goods in their backyard which they used to import before.

2. What is the use of money in the bank, if not used to save oneself when sick? Let the forex reserves fall -control the slide of the rupee and bring it back to low 50 level! MMS government is like counting beans when death is fast approaching!

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