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World Service,20 May 2013,10 mins

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In this edition of From Our Own Correspondent we hear stories from the US and India. Mark Mardell asks whether the 'land of the free' is actually the land of the slightly paranoid. In India, Rahul Tandon, meets Hindus shunning their own names and the caste associations that goes with them.

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