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Go for the Ghagra...
MAYURI, A second generation Indian currently pursuing her engineering in California, opts for a tie and dye ghagra and jacquard bustier, a firoza-and-pink ensemble, teamed with a matching woven dupatta. "Ghagra is a very popular ethnic option abroad. The girls opt for it for college dances, wedding receptions and the TANA meets," says her mother Hema. ...
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Development and Nationhood: Essays in the Political Economy of South Asia - Meghnad Desai; Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005; pages 410, Rs.650.
MEGHNAD DESAI is one of the leading economists of Indian origin living in the United Kingdom. He taught at the London School of Economics for close to four decades. A member of the House of Lords, he is known among economists as a staunch critic of India's development policies of the planning era and an enthusiastic supporter of the1991 economic reforms. But Desai is more than an economist. He has been a commentator of the political scene in India and beyond, approaching development from a politico-economic perspective, and is a prolific writer. He has authored over 250 academic articles and 16 books. The book under review is a collection of 30 essays, most of them first published in the 1990s and over the past few years. Initially they had appeared in newspapers, professional journals and edited volumes. ...
The focus of the book is clearly on India, with only three essays under the section titled South Asia to justify the subtitle.
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A Green Pharmacy - Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions, Bangalore.
Indian people had an incredible knowledge of phyto-medicine driven apparently by a tremendous passion for the study of medicinal plants. This is evident both in the living folk traditions in the rural communities as well as the scholarly traditions of the codified knowledge systems - i.e., Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Tibetan. Indians obviously care for medicinal plants because they know so much about them and have done so much work on their applications. Probably, no other medical culture in the world has so extensive, detailed and deep an understanding about the medicinal value of plants.
Medicinal Plants Use
The traditional definition of medicinal plants is given in Ashtaanga Hrdaya (600 AD) Sutra sthana Ch. 9 - verse 10 as:
jagatyevam anoushadham
na kinchit vidyate dravyam
vashaannaarthayagayoh
"There is nothing in this universe, which is non-medicinal, which cannot be made use of for many purposes and by many modes."
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Coffee Ripe Cherry - Relax a few minutes and read about coffee makers, espresso machines, famous brands, coffee history and various other coffee-making related stuff.
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GREEN GLOBE 21 is the worldwide benchmarking and certification program which facilitates sustainable travel and tourism for consumers, companies and communities. It is based on Agenda 21 and principles for Sustainable Development endorsed by 182 governments at the United Nations Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. There are 4 GREEN GLOBE 21 Standards.
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Green Green Green...
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Salad(s) ... For Good Health!
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Palette of Nature
There are many colours around
Blue and Green and Yellow
Purple plum and Brown
Blue is the sky
And the grass is Green
Brown is the Earth
Withal other colours in between
Bright are the colours
Of the flowers that bloom
Orange, Pink, Yellow and Maroon
Red is the sun Blue is the sea
Green is the tree
And black are the bees
I feel so happy with joy and glee
When I see God's lovely creation
As it was meant to be
For me to love, care, protect and see
- Geetanjali Sinha Roy, V A
New Delhi: Bluebells School International
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Chocolate Boy: Freddie’s Just A Kid In A Candy Film
HOLLYWOOD Most adults aren't foolish enough to believe that chocolate waterfalls exist (though, yes, chocolate fountains abound).
Oompa Loompas surely aren’t real, and nobody is as bizarre as Willy Wonka.
The real world couldn’t come close, it seems, to approximating the spectacle of director Tim Burton's big-screen version of Roald Dahl's 1964 classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, an imaginary candyland world where anything is possible.
But try telling that to Charlie. He's seen the chocolate factory, and he's here to tell you all about it.
Charlie — that is, actor Freddie Highmore — has, at 13, already built quite the resume, including a breakout performance in Finding Neverland and his most recent role as Charlie Bucket, a boy who goes through a far-from-normal experience when he finds a golden ticket that admits him into Wonka's world-famous chocolate factory.
Before production, Highmore thought he would be working mostly against blue and green screens, having to imagine a fictional sugar-coated world.
But instead, Highmore (who was 12 during production) got to enter a magical, edible world that was meticulously handcrafted by set designers — and is sure to be the envy of any kid who sees the film.
Although Highmore said that the river of chocolate that runs through the factory was made of toothpaste, among other things, some parts of the set were actually edible — meaning the actors had no trouble getting their sugar fix. Highmore tasted plants made of marshmallow and had his fair share of Wonka bars during production, but with his metabolism, you can’t tell. His size makes you wonder if you were that small at 13.
Although Highmore's acting talent has been praised (Johnny Depp, who plays Wonka and starred with Highmore in Finding Neverland, had requested him for the role of Charlie), Highmore says he didn't always have to act while playing the part in such a wonderland.
“All Tim Burton had to do was shoot our real thoughts,” said Highmore in his boyish British accent. ...
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Discovery Of Independent India : Joginder Singh
WHEN Jawaharlal Nehru thought of discovering India, he delved into the country’s past and its heritage. He related these to his vision of a new India. He was immensely proud of the country’s legacy and was confident that it would show the way even in the present scientific age. Joginder Singh, on the other hand, sets on a voyage of discovering***** India as it stands today. He casts a look at all that the country suffers from, and ends up with a sermon on how to shed cynicism over the present state of affairs.
In his enthusiasm to expose the malaise, he spares no one. The police, of which he has been a part all his working life, and in which he has held high positions, becomes his first whipping boy. No one should know better than him how the police force performs its duties, how it ignores the law, how it demands and takes bribes, how it fabricates evidence, how it makes false cases, how it uses third-degree methods to extract confessions as part of its normal routine. And he lists all these and much more with blunt frankness. What he seems to overlook is the fact that all this is known to the common man and the mere listing of these ills does not give him any solace. If only he had mentioned any efforts that he might have made to correct the system and what were the results of such efforts.
That the country’s borders are disturbed, that there is corruption in high places, that the crooks always manage to stay a step or two ahead of the legal procedures, that the pace of work in government offices is woefully slow are facts so well known that it does not really require a high-profile retired police officer to spend more than 300 pages***** on them. The blurb says that Joginder Singh does not hesitate to call a spade a spade, but all his plainspeaking, most of the time, amounts to stating the obvious.
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