Word: ramakrishna
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...Unlike dream comics, which have always struck me as little more than curiosities, full of symbols meaningful only to the dreamer, the "Frank" stories have a meditative, hallucinatory feel. (The book is dedicated to Sri Ramakrishna, a 19th-century guru/mystic.) They tap into a universal unconsciousness of archetypes. But ultimately "Frank" tells one story, everyone's story, the same story as life: "How Laughably Absurd...
...remains to be seen whether those successful Indian Americans can go back to kick-start opportunities in their native land, in the way that a "reverse brain drain" of technical talent helped build Taiwan's computer industry in the 1980s and '90s. K.S. Ramakrishna, raised in the southern state of Karnataka, got an M.B.A. from Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in 1990 but was forced to return home when his family business near Bangalore ran into difficulties. He straightened out the firm--it makes electric cables--but was disgusted by the local business culture: the complacency, corruption and lack...
...Ramakrishna persevered. He started his own business, growing roses for export, and senses that further opportunities abound. "For me to start up a business in America, I'd have to come up with some brilliant idea," he says. "Here it's so simple: you find an idea abroad, modify it for Indian conditions, and you make money." The crowning achievement of the Indian diaspora may be that its members bring that same entrepreneurial spark back to life in their homeland...
...Rajiv, grandmother Indira and great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were all Indian Prime Ministers, announced she would marry ROBERT VADRA, an exporter of costume jewelry and "a commoner," as the local press was quick to note, she had to fend off a few extra would-be suitors. A man named Ramakrishna Gowd went to court insisting he was married to the Gandhi daughter, but the judge recommended he be incarcerated and seek psychiatric help. And on the day of the happy but heavily guarded nuptials, Ms. Gandhi--once thought to be a likely heir to the family's political legacy...
...Maitreya Foundation did not conceive the idea of the Hierarchy. The Theophical Society, founded in 1875 as one of the first groups to look to the East for spiritual wisdom, also understands things this way. Located down the block from some Boston University dorms and the Ramakrishna Vedanat Society, which entered the U.S. at the time of the 1893 World Parliament of Religion in Chicago, the Theosophical Society has a broader age range than most similar groups and encourages members to remain in their own religion. The society's three objectives, displayed for all on a poster hung...