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Lokvani Talks To Tanuja Desai Hidier
Meet Tanuja Desai Hidier, who is making waves
with her new book "Born Confused". more... |
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Lokvani Meets Aparna Sen And Konkona
Sensharma
'My best production is Aparna Sen', once remarked
Aparna's father, Chidananda Das Gupta, the famous film critic, writer
and director. more... |
IAFPE Holds Its Annual Internship
Event
Under the title, Empowering Our Next Generation,
IAFPE kicked off its 10th annual Internship Program at Harvard University
recently. more... |
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Golden Club Meeting
Golden Club held a dinner at Bangalore Club
on April 12, 2003. more... |
Technology - Where is Osama? A Hyperspectral
Signal Processing Task!
The
intelligence community of the Pentagon is considering the use of classi-fied
and highly sensitive hyperspectral imaging sensors to detect and identify
the presence of cave activity from airborne platforms. more... |
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Red Hot Penn Masala Spices An Evening
Up
An a capella group depends on the quality of
each voice and Penn Masala sang a varied repertoire with some new
surprises. more... |
TiE Institute
TiE Institute organized its first lecture/seminar
titled 'How to separate good ideas from businesses opportunities'
at Babson College. more... |
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Hindu Heritage Day
The annual Hindu heritage day held at the Marlboro
Middle School on May 10th features a Noble Laureate as the guest speaker.
A grand cultural extravaganza is also planned. more... |
Rhythm Of The Spirit - SAHELI
As the applause softened, Nina Gulati and Robert
Bly humbly left the stage in opposite directions. A magic meeting
of muses was complete. more... |
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Indian Dance In New England Schools
Lokvani talks to students of non-Indian orgin
from Bridgewater State College and BBN about the experience of learning
Indian dance. more... |
North South Foundation
North South Foundation held their annual
spelling and vocabulary contests in Massachussetts and New Hampshire
recently. more... |
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For The Mathematically Inclined
Congratulations to Abhijit Bhadra, Rahul Banerjee,
Mugdha Kulkarni, Rekha R., and Rahul Shukla, the winners of our last
mathematically inclined problems. In this issue we bring you yet another
challenge. more... |
Lalgudi: My First Music Teacher
Traveling down memory lane, Mangalam Srinivasan
offers a heartwarming first person's account as a student of Lalgudi,
honoring the maestro's visit to Boston this weekend. more... |
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Film Reviews - Golden Oldies - Waqt
And Mera Saaya
While Sadhana's 'Jhumka gira re' number from
Mera Saya had the audience fling rupee notes onto the screen, her
figure hugging Churidar kurtas in Waqt set a much imitated fashion
trend. more... |
Regional Film Review
- Rudraveena In Telugu
The megastar
of Telugu cinema, Chiranjeevi offers a totally different image in
Rudraveena, a K. Balachander special. more... |
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Book Review - "The Calcutta
Chromosome"
A 21st century
science fiction novel about genes and chromosomes written by Amitav
Ghosh. more... |
Music Review - 'Sound
Check' Penn Masala's New CD
"Soundcheck"
features fourteen of Penn Masala's newest Western and Hindi songs
in an enjoyable mix of music. more... |
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Humor - Les Miserables (Translation:
More Miserable)
But let me
tell you, Iraq, I mean Chirac, if I were you, I'll cut down on that
expensive American wine, and go for your cheap domestic French variety.
more... |
Pickles, Achaar - Can
Any Meal Be Complete?
Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like
it in the pot, nine days old- pickles for you. more... |
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A Laugh A Day
Said Mark Twain "I have been told that Wagner's
music is better than it sounds." more... |
Mira Nair At Harvard
Don't miss "An Evening with Mira Nair," a discussion,
accompanied by film clips, regarding the filmmaker's life and career
on May 3, 2003 at 7 pm. more... |
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War on Terrorism or Assault on Human Rights?
A panel discussion organized by UMass Boston on
May 3rd. more...
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Purslane - Banana
Banana (Musa sp., Musaceae.) referring to a
number of species or hybrids in the genus Musa, is native to the tropics
of Asia. The word banana is derived from Arabic meaning 'finger.'
more... |
Thought for the Day
by
Lee Iacocca more...
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Photo Of The Fortnight
Early signs of Spring? This photograph seems
to indicate so. more... |
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Event Update
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