5/13/2013
Almost $9,000 was raised by the Triveni Ensemble and the Triveni School of Dance during a performance last month to benefit Friends of Payir – a non-government organization centered around the basic belief that all humans deserve a good quality of life. The event, which took place on April 5 and April 6 at the Boston University Dance Theater, was led by Neena Gulati – the founding director of both the Triveni Ensemble and Triveni School of Dance.
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6/18/2013  "Saptapadii," a popular film produced by Amitabh Bachchan Corporation starring Manav Gohil and Swaroop Sampat, will return to the Boston area for a showing on Sunday, June 22. The film, which debuted earlier this year to widespread success in Canada, Australia, China and India, will return to the U.S. for Sunday's 2:30 p.m. showing at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass. The movie centers around the contemporary story of a Gujarati Indian woman who risks her comfortable, married life to help a young boy she meets while celebrating her 20th anniversary with her husband.
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| 6/18/2013  Accomplished Ghazal singer Jaswinder Singh Bunty is set to perform at the Chinmaya Mission building in Andover, Mass. on June 21. Singh was trained and mentored by Jagjit Singh — a legendary Indian Ghazal singer, songwriter and musician. Jaswinder Singh accompanied the elder Singh on stage during concerts in India and around the world. His voice and singing style greatly resemble those of his trainer, who passed away in 2011. Jaswinder Singh has released three albums to date.
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| 6/14/2013  Of the roughly 500,000 Hindus currently living in the United Kingdom, many have never had the chance to visit or study the homeland of their religion or culture. With the problem especially prevalent among young westerners, one Hindu scholar is hoping to give them the education they deserve via an insightful and influential new book. "108 Saints of India," a book published by Dilip Hirani, contains enriching biographies and information on over one hundred Hindu saints.
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CT Rhythms, a Connecticut-based group of talented and passionate performing musicians, drew in a crowd of almost 300 concertgoers to their June 9 event, "An Evening of Musical Madness." The show, which featured a mix of Tamil, Hindi and Telugu songs from the 1960s up to the latest hits of this year, raised roughly $9,000 in funds, according to Sampath Narayanasamy of CT Rhythms. |
| 6/11/2013  LearnQuest — a nonprofit institution devoted to providing formal instruction in Indian classical music — is scheduled to present the musical show "A Tribute to Ustad Mehdi Hassan" on June 15. Hassan, who was born in India in 1927, overcame severe financial hardships to become one of the most popular ghazal singers in both Pakistan and India. He passed away in 2012. The show, which will take place at 125 Prospect Street in Framingham, Mass., will feature a number of talented local artists from India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh.
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| 6/11/2013  Hello friends, I hope you had a fantastic Memorial Day weekend and great start to the summer. The whole month of May was been celebratory, either with graduations or weddings. The weather too was pretty good, most of the time. Well the IPL season is over in India and that means a spate of exciting titles of films coming to grace the big screen. Here's a look at what you can expect in June.
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| 6/5/2013  Although he’s well-known in many circles as a wildly successful entrepreneur, MIT grad Jeet Singh is making headlines in another area this week – the music industry. Singh, who co-founded the e-commerce company Art Technology Group in 1991, later sold the company in a 2011 deal with Oracle Corp. for an estimated $1 billion. And now, Singh’s band, known appropriately as “The Singhs,” just released the group’s fourth album earlier this week on Tuesday, June 4.
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| 5/30/2013  Students from the Java Joshi School of Creative Arts are scheduled to exhibit their work to the general public during a free showing on Sunday, June 9 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The June showing will be held at the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society and is intended to allow young artists an opportunity to showcase their creative works to other art enthusiasts. Founded by Lexington artist Java Joshi, the school aims to spread the love of art among children in order to create the next generation of artists.
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| 5/30/2013  In "The Billionaire's Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund," veteran journalist and former Wall Street Journal reporter, Anita Raghavan, crisscrosses the globe to uncover the story — and the significance — of Gupta's meteoric rise and tragic fall. Born in Calcutta and orphaned at fifteen, Gupta blazed a trail from Delhi's hyper-competitive Indian Institute of Technology through Harvard Business School to the inner sanctum of corporate America, ultimately serving on the boards of Goldman Sachs, American Airlines, and Procter & Gamble, and counting President Bill Clinton among his many powerful friends.
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| 5/29/2013  CT Rhythms, a Connecticut-based group of talented and passionate performing musicians, is scheduled to host "An Evening of Musical Madness" on June 9 — an event which is slated to be filled with Tamil, Hindi and Telugu songs from the 1960s up to the latest hits of this year. The multi-lingual and multi-faceted band is known to attract audiences across a range of different languages, nationalities and generations. CT Rhythms has performed shows in the United States, Canada and India for a variety of occasions, such as fund raisers, live shows, small parties and corporate events.
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| 5/24/2013  In a new humor book, "Are You Indian? A Humorous Guide to Growing Up Indian in America," author Sanjit Singh attempts to satirize all aspects related to the experience of growing up Indian in America, including Indian Uncles, Indian Aunties, spelling bees, Indian careers, FOBs, ABCDs, online Indian marriage ads, Indian desserts, American yoga teachers, and more.
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| 5/23/2013  Popular Bollywood singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is scheduled to perform at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut on Sunday, May 26, an event which is being sponsored by INDIA New England. Trained in the art of classical music and Qawwali, Rahat has been amazing crowds across the world for years. He's performed in India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States, among numerous other venues. |
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