Writes Lehkikaa - Savitha Sastry and Navia Natarajan sparked the beginnings of the underground movement in Bharatanatyam on Saturday June 13, 2009 at the Leigh High School in San Jose. I say “underground” as an achievement we all should laud. A debut underground performance is characterized by superlative talent, an ...

Small budget film-makers still have to have a powerful script and well known actors to attract funding, even in the improved professionalism of the Bollywood financing system. Like any other business, the plan has to be, as they say in the Mumbai lingo, "solid." So what happens if the subject ...

As long as real angels and real entrepreneurs work together to build great companies, there is much room for innovation and development of new ideas in India. As long as organized angels and organized entrepreneurs indulge each other without affecting the outside world, they would not affect the market in ...

When mainstream news channels like CNN and BBC, previously the authoritative voices on international events, dropped the ball on the coverage of the Iranian elections, it was picked up by thousands of voices "tweeting" across the globe. For the last several ...

My heart goes to the youth in Iran, who I think really believed that these elections would be a turning point for their country, its reputation and its engagement with the rest of the world. ...

When the news trickled out through the community gossip mills that the FUSD (Fremont Unified School District) was planning to eliminate science prep, computer prep and PE teachers for most schools, it came as a real shock to parents. Already overburdened classroom teachers would now have to shoulder the burden ...

The Akshaya Patra Foundation, the world’s largest NGO-run midday meal program, recently partnered with OneCause, an online community aimed at socially conscious shoppers. This is how it works: OneCause ties up with various popular merchants on one hand and with non profits on the other. When you sign up at OneCause, ...

When we become parents, we reflexively continue the grand oral tradition of storytelling, often dredging up memories of our own childhood to illustrate a point or demonstrate a moral. Sushmita Mazumdar takes these nostalgic journeys one step further – by crafting tangible, physical reminders of our experiences in the form of ...

This "City of a Thousand Spires" is one of the most beautiful travel destinations in Europe. There are enough travelogues and guidebooks written about Prague to fill a library so these are just a few observations and pointers about this lovely city and its culture.

Last Saturday, two other judges and I watched in amazement as kids from the age of 3, barely potty trained, to kids in their preteens, took the stage to wow us with their elocution. The event was "Win With Words", an annual public speaking competition conducted by Rennu Dhillon of Genius ...