Desi World
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Making Soldiers M-Fit
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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Indian-American Guggenheim Fellows
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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Girls who Root for STEM
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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Ramayana Goes Digital
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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Book Matters
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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Largest, Shortest, Longest, Strongest
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!
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Live from Patna, Scotland
April 2013 -
Cities around the world are named after places in India; most have no connection to India--but in Patna, Scotland, children learn Indian dance and hope to visit the birthplace of their town’s founder.
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American Views, Indian Views
April 2013 -
A Gallup World Affairs survey provides a glimpse of how Americans view others, including India and Indians. And a Pew Research Center survey last year shows how India views Americans.
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Sugata Mitra's School in the Cloud
April 2013 -
The 2013 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) prize of $1 million went to educator and physicist Sugata Mitra, whose work reportedly inspired the author of Q&A, which became Slumdog Millionaire.
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BOOK MATTERS
April 2013 -
Around India in 80 Trains, M. Rajesh: reconnecting and enjoying train travel / Narcopolis, J. Thayil: novel of Bombay and opium addiction / The Abundance, A. Majmudar: a dying mother cooks.
