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Washington, May 31 (IANS) Thirteen-year-old Indian American Arvind Mahankali won the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee breaking a personal four-year losing streak. Arvind, of Bayside Hills, New York, correctly spelled "knaidel", a German-origin word meaning a type of dumpling. "I thought a German curse has turned into a German blessing," NBC News quoted him as saying after he emerged the winner. Even as he continued the tradition of Indian Americans winning the annual event, he also became ...