Dwarkamai, a nonprofit religious organization, began its multi-week annual spiritual program with a kids' cultural program, Sai Rainbow, followed by the initiation of the Shri Shirdi Sai Palkhi (annual spiritual walk) at the Chinmaya Maruti Center in Andover, Mass., on August 14.
Saleem Ali, 37, one of National Geographic Society's most recently named "Emerging Explorers," is thinking outside the box when it comes to how the global community handles political conflict and environmental issues. Ali's idea for what he calls an Atlas of Ecological Cooperation — an idea he hopes will create peace between countries sparring politically while espousing a greater level of commitment to protecting the planet — garnered a $10,000 prize and a spot in National Geographic magazine in June.
The atlas is designed to evaluate the status of global conflicts, analyze ecological and cultural systems affected and propose ways that conservation measures may be used to bring nations together.
Ali intends to spend the award money, which came without stipulations, for research related to developing his atlas idea.
INDIA New England will present its 2010 Fall Wedding Expo & Community Day on Sunday, Sept. 26, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel at 5400 Computer Drive in Westborough, Mass.
Drug-device company Taris Biomedical Inc. is filling a void in health care that newly appointed CEO Sarma Duddu believes is long overdue by providing a device that is capable of delivering sustained, time-released medicine to a specific region of the body.
Afshan Bokhari, assistant professor of art history at Suffolk University's New England School of Art and Design in Boston, is finding that a combination of art and science is the key to personal and professional success.
Editor’s note: September is National Preparedness Month. In recognition of this, SAHELI, a Boston-based women’s support group and affiliate of the India Association of Greater Boston, is reaching out to the community on the topic of being prepared during emergencies.
Rani and Irfan Khalid know that adhering to a strict Muslim halal diet can be a challenge, especially if you happen to live in the Boston area, where few halal restaurants exist. But the duo’s new Darbar Restaurant, launched on June 25 in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood, eases the difficulty somewhat by offering an entire spate of menu items prepared in the halal tradition.
Sangeeta Ahuja, who took over as chairwoman of the Global Organization of Physicians of Indian Origin’s Health Council in January, is on a one-woman crusade to educate South Asians about the importance of staying healthy.
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists has honored Dr. Kanchi N. Gandhi, a bibliographer and nomenclature specialist with the Harvard University Herbaria in Cambridge, Mass., with an ASPT Distinguished Service Award.
The Boston chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs, or TiE-Boston, is recruiting for the TyE Class of 2010-2011, which is scheduled to begin in September 2010.
TyE, or TiE Young Entrepreneurs, is part of TiE-Boston's educational programs for youth established in 2005. ...
Small groups of non-native English speakers have been gathering at the Shrewsbury Public Library every Monday evening since September 2009 to practice speaking English in a safe environment. ... Beginning in October 2010 the library will be offering two classes for beginners who want to learn English and two classes for intermediate students.
Whose responsibility is personal growth? People might ask why such a question should arise in the first place. Of course, it is one’s own responsibility. But this question is important. Because people like to relieve themselves of this responsibility by putting the onus on God, on divine powers or on their Guru. In fact, some people who live in the shadow of a highly capable person, willingly like to make themselves incapable of progress. Some say that we are ordinary people. It is not possible for us to grow. They create a fence of their own ordinariness. They fail to recognize the truth that, after crossing this fence, an ordinary Mohandas became a Mahatma.
( Translated from original Marathi book - Manogati - written by Dr. Anand Nadkarni)
So we are back on the wonderful cruise. I hope my previous entry about the same piqued your interest a little. It been 2 weeks now since I took the cruise but there are some buildings which still pop out vividly in my mind and this blog is about those. The first among those is the gothic tribune tower.
With Globalisation, every huge metropolis has become similar in many aspects. But if you keep your eyes wide open - there are subtle nuances which point out the unique traits in each city. As a tourist, I love discovering such things and if someone asks me what I found unique in Chicago, my answer would definitely be the Architecture tour on Chicago river.The experience of looking at views of different cities from high towers becomes repetitive after a while.So I would rate this cruise much higher than the views from the highest point on Sears towers!
I booked my flight to Germany and got a 4-hour layover in Paris on the way back to Boston. Whether to go to the Eiffel Tower or not was not a conundrum for me. When you have the visa and time, how can you and not go to see one of the wonders of world! The question ‘to be or not to be’ arose when I realized after getting off of the plane that I forgot my diary in the back packet of the seat in front of me.