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Highlighting the incredibly rich and varied culture of Southern India, the Harvard South Asian Association’s presentation of “Kalpanam 2006: Classical Imaginations,” combined dance, music, rhythm, and costume, in an evening that proved to be not only visually stunning, but also of educational value. Presented in Lowell Lecture Hall last Saturday night to a nearly full house, “Kalpanam” consisted of two main acts separated by an intermission. Directed by Prerna Martin ’09 and Rohini S. Rau-Murthy ’08, and produced...
...four-door, rear-engine runabout he designed himself that's currently under development (he aims to sell a million a year in India after its release in 2008). Another is the Ace, a 700cc truck that Tata Motors sells for less than $5,000 and, since its launch in southern India in May 2005, has accounted for two-thirds of all trucks sold domestically. Purchases of these vehicles are supported by low-interest consumer loans from Tata Finance. Tata's hotel chain is building 200 hotels across India under the brand Ginger, offering rooms with wireless Internet access, air-conditioning...
...Andre 3000 is wild and crazy. He's got the energy of a little kid," says Benjamin. "I'm totally opposite from that, way more calm. I have friends that call me Turtle." Indian Ocean Jan. 10, 2005 They are burning bodies on the shore of Tamil Nadu in southern India, and Manikimuttu, 24, whose grandfather is among the 60 or so in the pyre, is crazed with grief, one moment scooping water into cooking pots and throwing it on the flames, the next collapsing in uncontrollable sobs. They are collecting bodies from the normally green lawn in front...
...grads. Just an hour earlier, Nicholas B. Lemann ’76 had asked the panel audience if he could “self-flagellate regarding my thesis a little,” making a disgusted face as he revealed that he wrote about “tragically doomed Southern liberals.” As it happens, masochism was a theme running through this gathering of people who chose a concentration notorious for its medieval requirements. “The reason that so many of us are interested in torture sort of stems from the oral examination experience...
...30th anniversary of the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation between Australia and Japan, the just-completed Sydney Symphony concert tour perhaps best exemplifies the new-found harmony between these two once warring nations. Invited by Asia Orchestra Week as "a glory of the Southern Hemisphere," the Australian orchestra's bass-heavy Sydney sound was let loose in the more rarefied acoustics of halls in Tokyo and Osaka. "The technique in Japan is really polished, highly trained, actually perfect?no mistakes," says Tokyo-raised, Sydney-based contrabassoonist Noriko Shimada. "I like the SSO because...