Writes Priya Das -Margazhi Raagam, the “concert in cinema”, is many things packaged as a movie...It's a kutcheri/ concert featuring two very popular artistes Bombay Jayashri and T. M. Krishna. It’s a film on digital steroids, with uncompressed six-track sound, audiographed by H. Sridhar, and captured on Red 4K cameras, ...

It costs Akshaya Patra $28 to feed a child daily for the entire school year. Donors to the campaign contribute $28 to Akshaya Patra for each Mother they wish to honor. In areas where the Indian government provides a subsidy, $28 can actually feed two children. Once someone has ...

The reason why it is so hard to teach self confidence to young children is because as they are growing up epically between the ages of 18 months to age 5, children get scolded or corrected for a zillion things. We tend to spend most of the early learning years ...

Writes Lehkikaa -Bay Area dance rasikas had an ethereal experience when four gurus of Kuchipudi and Bharatanatyam danced at the YuvaBharati concert at the Mission City Center in Santa Clara on Apr 12, 2009. Presented as a tribute in bells to Oothukkadu Venkata Subayyar and Maharaja Swathi Thirunal, it was ...

Akshaya Patra reached its goal of feeding one million underprivileged children daily by 2010 on April 1, 2009. The organization increased the number of children served in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh and now feeds 1,008,518 children through 17 kitchens in seven states.

Dear readers, You may have noticed that we've been going back and forth on providing full feed vs. excerpts on our email and RSS feeds. One argument is that having excerpts makes it easier for people to see multiple posts when there ...

Writes Geeta Padmanabhan -Indian elections are a huge, enviable exercise in democracy with a mind-boggling 700 million official voters on the rolls. That should come as a lesson for a lot of countries. But it has several serious shortcomings in the very nature of its party system, its parliamentary form ...

“I felt I was powerless when it came to my son's leukemia,” says Purvi Shah, co-founder of Kids and Art. “He was the one going through the pain and the treatment and the side effects.” At this time Purvi was raising funds as part of Team in Training and she ...

Writes Piya Mitra -Some of my most cherished childhood memories are those of my grandmother’s tea estates, in the Dooars (foothills of Darjeeling) region of W.Bengal, sipping tea on the porch of the beautiful bungalow with a picture postcard view.If you are a tea lover like me, why not throw ...

Writes Geeta Padmanabhan -If there’s one thing that is predictable about the 15th Lok Sabha elections, it is that it is unpredictable. Even those psephologists who consider their analyses incontestable are talking in terms of “if”. The bookies are of course making a lot of hay in the unpredictable sunshine. And ...