Brian Lairr on WNYC and to finish up today in our last 15 minutes we're going to open

up the phones for a perennial Brian Lairr show call in, immigrants from anywhere.

Tell us a news story from your country of origin that you think other people should

know.

What's important, what's interesting from your country of origin, immigrants from

anywhere.

Call or text to 1 2 4 3 3 WNYC to 1 2 4 3 3 9 6 9 2 obviously we know the New York

area is home to people from literally all over the world and this station tries to reflect

that.

We are the BBC News Hour before this show and there's still so much news from around the world

that never makes it into the mainstream American press even here.

So tell us those stories at 2 1 2 4 3 3 WNYC, it's a perennial Brian Lairr show call

in perennial because we come back to it periodically throughout the year, immigrants from anywhere.

Tell us a news story from your country of origin that you think other people would be

interested to know about or should know about.

What's important, what's interesting, 2 1 2 4 3 3 WNYC, 4 3 3 9 6 9 2 1.

The reason we're doing this today is that we thought people with ties to India might

want to call in on the story that Prime Minister Narendra Modi picked off the public portion

of his US visit by doing yoga on the United Nations front lawn this evening, he'll address

a joint session of Congress and have dinner at the White House as part of his trip that

political analysts are saying is intended to strengthen ties between the two countries,

particularly uniting the US and India against threats from China.

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