IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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August 2013 -
Named as one of the “top 13 women of color to watch,” Saru Jayaraman, who appeared at Atlanta’s Carter Center earlier this year, fights for the rights of restaurant workers.
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August 2013 -
Rajat Gupta: "The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund" / A camel in Ahmedabad (children's book): Bye, Bye, Motabhai!
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August 2013 -
Indians like the U.S. most among 22 countries, going by the India Poll 2013, which also looked at threats, influence, strength of relationships, and domestic policies and priorities.
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August 2013 -
Audio pioneer Bose / India’s remittances from NRIs / Sri Srinivasan, on US’s second most important court / cremation for Americans / Amol Rajan, head of national newspaper in U.K.
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May 2013 -
Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training assists U.S. soldiers preparing for combat. Like meditation and yoga, it reduces stress, increases awareness, boosts performance, and reduces suicide rates.
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May 2013 -
Novelist Kiran Desai, academician Indira Viswanathan Peterson, filmmaker Sonali Gulati, and neuroscientist Charan Ranganath are among the 175 recipients of the 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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May 2013 -
American universities will produce enough graduates for only 29 percent of the computer science jobs in 2020. Reshma Saujani of Girls who Code encourages girls to enter the field.
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May 2013 -
In May, the lavishly illustrated 17th century Mewar manuscript of the Ramayana becomes available online. The British Library worked with Mumbai’s CSMVS Museum and the Jamsetji Tata Trust.
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May 2013 -
New books: The Pity of Partition [Saadat Hasan Manto] (Ayesha Jalal) / The Hope Factory (Lavanya Sankaran) / Tiger in My Soup (Kashmira Sheth) / The Magic of Saida (M. G. Vassanji).
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April 2013 -
Lucknow has a Montessori school with 39,437 students. Elijah Woods' double in Lord of the Rings was the shortest stuntman. Those are just two of the many Indian world records!
