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...rickety cages, the zoo was modernized in 2001 to feature "tropical-forest" dwellings. These allow visitors to see the animals at all times, yet still provide spaces to which the 1,167 furred, feathered and scaled residents can retreat. In the underwater "riverine forest," part of the Southeast Asian collection, you come face to face with a lazily floating false gavial, a narrow-snouted crocodile-like reptile. A "second-growth forest" houses flying foxes; these huge bats, which can have wingspans of up to 1.8 m, hang directly above your head. The lemur habitat, in the Madagascar section, is accessed...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby, a Chinese historian by training, wrote in an e-mail that marked gender preferences in Asia are one reason that males are currently more prevalent than females. “Historical reasons for prizing boys over girls in East Asian societies have to do with long-standing and intersecting belief systems and family structures,” he wrote. “In societies that lack any organized social security beyond the family, the best insurance for parents in their old age is a son with the responsibility of taking care...
This weekend, South Asian cultures—both old and new—will converge upon the Harvard stage in the production, “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations.” The program’s dance performance pieces not only typify traditional Indian dance styles—dancers will perform lively Kuchuppudi folk dances and classic Bharathnatyam dance narratives about Hindu gods—but are also accented with bits of modern flair...
...fact, Co-Director Rohini Rau-Murthy ’08 choreographed a classical and emotionally involving dance drama specifically for the second half of the show, and in her creative process, Rau-Murthy temporally embodied the theme of the production: the fusion of old and new South Asian cultures. Co-Director Aditi Mallick ’08 echoes the sentiment and says that she was first drawn to direct the production because of the project’s fearlessness in putting “a new spotlight on the sometimes-forgotten classical dance...
Mallick promises audiences that this revival of a once-annual Harvard performance will complexly offer the campus a valuable new “novelty” experience by giving students the chance to appreciate Asian relics of the past with modernized appeal. Mallick furthermore advises that audiences should leave their pre-conceived expectations at the door because, “Kalpanam offers something that hasn’t been done before...