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Happy Independence Day, India. Jai Ho.

Saturday, August 14, 2010 18:49 No Comments
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The Riverside School : Infecting India With “I CAN”

Sunday, July 18, 2010 19:28 No Comments

  Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents. Such a simple and inspiring motto : “One Idea. One Week. One Billion lives to change.”

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India’s Rupee Gets Its Own Currency Symbol

Sunday, July 18, 2010 17:35 No Comments

The official Indian Currency, “Rupee” (INR) got its official currency Symbol now. You can use it now on web pages all over. Look how the symbol looks on a typical webpage  Picture Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign

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Ananda Shankar Jayant : Conquering Cancer With Shakti

Friday, June 18, 2010 23:12 No Comments

Indian culture and mythology is all about Metaphors. But, its quite rare to come across somebody that apply those teachings in real life, leave alone fight deadliest cancer with that power of metaphors. Salute to her resolve and unflinching belief.   Renowned classical Indian dancer Ananda Shankar Jayant was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She [...]

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Lok Satta’s Jaya Prakash Narayan @ Google

Tuesday, June 15, 2010 9:04 No Comments

One of my favorites and I believe is one of the best of contemporary leaders, Jaya Prakash Narayan was recently at Google and shared his thoughts. His ideology presented in a context that most NRIs and the world could easily understand, aptly named, “19th Century Politics and 21st Century Economics”.    You may follow the [...]

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