Archive for June, 2005

Perfect Bollywood glitz from five non-Indians

Wed Jun 8 2005

Imagine white performers singing, and dancing wearing bollywood style cloths. Meet five non-Indians, a chinese american twins, Italian girl and two half French half German, who sing songs from Sholay and Kal Ho Na Ho, love songs like Ek Ladki Ko Dekha from 1942 – A Love Story, and performs Dola Re Dola dance from [...]

Apple, Intel & Microsoft

Sun Jun 5 2005

16 percent of computer users are Apple Macs Survey shows Apple Macs owned by nearly 10 percent of US small and medium-sized businesses 10 percent of computer users use a Mac CNet News.com has learned that Apple ditching IBM and switching to Intel’s microprocessors. Really? AOpen Mini PC ‘not competing’ with Apple Mac Mini Microsoft [...]

Appoggiatura

Thu Jun 2 2005

Anurag Kashyap, 13, of California clinched “appoggiatura,” defined as “an accessory embellishing note or tone preceding an essential melodic note or tone” to take home some $30,000 in prizes. He won in the 19th round of the 78th Annual National Scripps Spelling Bee on Thursday, beating 272 other spellers. Kashyap is an avid reader and [...]

Ekal Vidyalaya

Wed Jun 1 2005

The Ekal Vidyalaya movement aims to help eradicate illiteracy from rural and tribal India by 2012. To date, Ekal Vidyalaya is a movement of over 13,000 teachers, 2,500 voluntary workers, 20 field organizations (scattered in 20 Indian states), and 6 support agencies. With this tremendous human force, the Ekal Vidyalaya movement strives to create a [...]