IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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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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May 2011 -
A rash of violent, often racist, attacks on students from the subcontinent has diminished the appeal of Australia, especially Melbourne, where many of these incidents took place. Some dubious institutions were shut down, and the number of Indian students going to Australia has dropped.
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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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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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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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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.
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April 2011 -
Architect Haresh Lalvani decodes the morphological genome of matter using higher dimensional mathematics. And the result?
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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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April 2011 -
India Gate (in Delhi) and the Gateway of India (in Mumbai) are iconic monuments of independent India.
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April 2011 -
Though not an actor, this Salman Khan is involved in filmmaking. But the videos he makes are all about learning.
