With 1 % decline in Indian students going to the US, a huge 44 % rise noted in arrivals of US students in India American universities may be the best in the world and Indian educational institutions may not even figure in the global top 10. But that hasn’t stopped a surprisingly large number of […]
Continue readingTimes Ahmedabad Festival gifts city – Electrik Sundae
Percussion pundit Sivamani, jazz legend Louiz Banks, & ‘zitar’ prodigy Niladri Kumar fuse genius with joy at Times Ahmedabad Festival The captivating tunes of ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’ — one of Gandhiji’s favourite bhajans — zapped the large audience at Times Ahmedabad Festival’s Asia Electrik performance on Sunday evening at the Vastrapur Amphitheatre. Asia Electrik […]
Continue readingAsia Electrik promise to gift city a surprise
Chaiya Chaiya-fame Chennai based percussion pundit Sivamani, who has been drumming since the age of 7, is to set the city on fire with his ‘Asia Electrik’ mates ‘Zitar’ legend Nilathri Kumar and jazz king Louiz Banks. “We are all set to surprise city with fresh fusion notes especially composed for the Times Ahmedabad Festival,” […]
Continue readingWomen share joy and pain of writing
Creative writing is born out of excruciating pain for some, while for others creation itself is simply celebration and pleasure. At the two-day national meet of women writers in Ahmedabad, experts and authors discussed enriching varieties of textures of women’s writings and paradoxes of processes that prompt women in to pursuing writings. The meet organised […]
Continue readingMaking poetry out of life’s chaos
Malela Jeev — a literary platform hosting Kavya Samaroh (poets gathering) online, is the brain child of NRG ‘Vepari-Kavi’ (trader-poet) Janak Desai, who runs a small-sized $5-million diamond business in New Jersey. It was named after the prolific author of Gujarati literature Pannalal Patel’s award winning short story which was later taken as a plot […]
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