New venue to welcome burgeoning audience

The 32nd edition of world’s longest classical music festival Saptak 2012 is to take place at Amrut Mody School of Management, near IIM-A from today. This is a maiden shift of venue for the 13-day long festival, which has always been organized at Kashiram Agarwal Hall. The venue change is prompted by the attempt to […]

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In NRG’s memoirs, pols are protagonists

Nostalgia of having spent childhood days in walled city of Ahmedabad is her new muse. Meenal Pandya, an NRG investment consultant-turned-writer, having penned down more than six books on issues that the Indian diaspora face abroad, is currently documenting ‘History of My Pols’ – which she describes is a book where history is interspersed with […]

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Party scene turns kid-centric

As cops crack down on bootleggers ahead of the New Year festivities, Ahmedabad’s party animals are jittery about throwing their booze-filled bashes. But there are no jitters for those planning parties for children on the outskirts of the city. The logic is, if grown-ups can’t have fun, there is no reason to make it boring […]

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Immigration gets impetus from Gujarat-origin US Congress aspirant

He is a son of Saurashtra running for a Congressional seat in America — and 34-year-old Vivek Bavda’s politics is enriched by a virtue valued in the land of his ancestors: compassion. Indeed, Bavda has vowed to fight strenuously to prevent the elimination of social security, especially for the elderly. He feels that the economic […]

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46 % Of Top 50 Venture-Funded Firms In US Founded By Immigrants

Indians are real fuel in America’s growth engine, study reveals Earlier an Indian dreamt of going to the US for better future. Today, the US beckons Indians to come and create better future for their country. The new research by US National Foundation for American Policy (USNFAP) 2011 says that 46% — 23 of the […]

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