Desi World
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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Four Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Prize in 2011
May 2011 -
Vijay Vazirani, Ananya Chatterjea, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Arun Agrawal are among the 180 Guggenheim Fellows of 2011. Siddhartha Mukherjee won a Pulitzer Prize for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
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Smithsonian's Focus on Indian Americans
May 2011 -
One day, in the nation’s capital, will there be a National Museum of the Indian American? Unlikely. But there could well be a National Museum of the Asian American that includes an Indian-American wing.
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Katha Contest Winner Publishes Debut Novel
May 2011 -
A 30-year-old diagnostic nuclear radiologist based in Columbus, Ohio, Amit Majmudar is an award-winning poet and fiction writer who has published a novel set in 1947.
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Foursquare for Facebook Fans
April 2011 -
Foursquare is the latest platform for social media enthusiasts. It’s a location-based networking website for users of mobile devices.
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Saying 'Bollywood' in Chinese
April 2011 -
Irit Namatinia is an Israeli woman who teaches Bollywood dances in China. What a striking example of India’s global reach!
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Haresh Lalvani: Master of Metal
April 2011 -
Architect Haresh Lalvani decodes the morphological genome of matter using higher dimensional mathematics. And the result?
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Anniversaries for two monuments
April 2011 -
India Gate (in Delhi) and the Gateway of India (in Mumbai) are iconic monuments of independent India.
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Khan academy ’s classes for the masses
April 2011 -
Though not an actor, this Salman Khan is involved in filmmaking. But the videos he makes are all about learning.
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Indian exhibitions in the southeast
April 2011 -
It’s no longer uncommon to see Indian exhibitions in the museums of Southeastern cities like Atlanta and Nashville.
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New 2G Scandal Hits Wall Street
April 2011 - India is not the only country where 2G could stand for a big scandal involving money. In the U.S., too, we have a 2G scandal.
