Arun Venugopal

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Hundreds of NYU students and faculty demonstrated yesterday to voice support for striking graduate assistants. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more.

The high point of the protest came when the protesters thronged the lobby of Bobst Library, filling it with the sound of their chants. However, as ...

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Chances are, you've never been to the bronx Terminal market, unless you run a restaurant or an ethnic food store. WNYC's Arun Venugopal looks into the final days of the market, which is set to give way to a shopping mall, and finds two competing ...

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Governor Pataki has proposed an overhaul of the state's workers' compensation coverage. The program has been derided as a hurdle to economic growth by business leaders around the state. WNYC's Arun Venugopal reports.

Governor Pataki said employers would save over $800 million as a result of ...

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New York's olympic delegation has left the city for Singapore. That's where the International Olympic Committee will choose the host of the 2012 games next week. Reporter Arun Venugopal has more.

REPORTER: At a City Hall Park send off, Singer Ben Vereen serenaded the crowd which ...

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Arun Venugopal of the newspaper India Abroad, found that gay South Asians have created a community in New York that includes many Indian and Pakistani customs. But there are some aspects of South Asian culture that they want to escape, and can't.

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Last weekend a tournament involving a game said to be played for the last four thousand years old took place. Drummers, singers and crowds gathered in Queens.

Arun Venugopal reports on the festivities.

REPORTER: It’s springtime, and if you’re Punjabi, you’re the sporting type and you live ...