Re: [Assam] [assam] American Dreams In China

2012-03-23 Thread Bhuban Baruah
Dear Friends: This article covers 5 pages. I read only the first page as I have to stop now. I wish I were an architect because McKinsey Company predicts will build 50,000 skyscrapers in the next two decades, the equivalent of 10 New York cities. -bhuban

Re: [Assam] [assam] A Hunger Artist

2012-03-23 Thread Bhuban Baruah
Dear Friends: From N Y Times (23 03 2021) March 21, 2012, 7:49 AM A Hunger Artist By DAN MORRISON Indranil Mukherjee/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Anna Hazare in December 2011. DHAKA, Bangladesh — On Monday, in a display of rank opportunism, the celebrity anticorruption campaigner

Re: [Assam] [assam] India's Decrepit, Unsafe Railways

2012-03-23 Thread Bhuban Baruah
Dear Friends: Did you know 40 people die everyday on Railway crossings in India Or you might have a rat as your companion during breakfast and lunch inside dining area of the train? Know why the erstwhile Minister of the Indian Railways had to quit from today's N Y Times (23 03 2012). A Must

Re: [Assam] [assam] Dharun Ravi Denies Anti-Gay Bias

2012-03-23 Thread Bhuban Baruah
Dear Friends This is from the New York Times, World Page, on India (23 03 2012): -bhuban March 23, 2012, 5:07 AM Dharun Ravi Denies Anti-Gay Biam By SRUTHI GOTTIPATI Matt Rainey for The New York Times Dharun Ravi during his trial at the Middlesex County Superior Court in New

Re: [Assam] [assam] The Parsis, Once India's Curators, Now Shrug as History Rots

2012-03-23 Thread Bhuban Baruah
Dear Friends: This is from India Ink, NY Times today (23 03 2012) -bhuban March 23, 2012, 7:57 AM The Parsis, Once India’s Curators, Now Shrug as History Rots By DINYAR PATEL Courtesy of Parzor Project Dasturji Meherjirana at the Meherjirana library, Navsari, Gujarat. His family has

Re: [Assam] [assam] Dharun Ravi Denies Anti-Gay Bias

2012-03-23 Thread Alpana B. Sarangapani
It is extremely unfortunate and sad that Clements committed suicide. But Ravi did not plan and never imagined that it would go that far. It was a stupid move of an 18 year old to play a prank, a stupid (and cruel) prank, as he said. Isn't it amazing that concurrently a direct murderer is

[Assam] Journalist on Everest trek

2012-03-23 Thread Nava Thakuria
Journalist on Everest trek Guwahati, 23 March: Assamese explorer, also a journalist, Pranay Bordoloi (40), is set to scale the highest peak of the world. The journalist will join an international team on their mission to climb the Mt Everest (8848 m) in mid-May. Wang Fu-Chou, an

[Assam] One more paper implements (Majithia Wage Board)

2012-03-23 Thread Nava Thakuria
One more paper implements A South Indian newspaper has become the second paper in India to implement recommendations by the Majithia Wage Board. Madhyamam is the second paper (after Assam Tribune) to implement the recommendations, and is the first newspaper in Kerala to do so. The paper's

Re: [Assam] [assam] Why Choose A Women's College?

2012-03-23 Thread Bhuban Baruah
Dear Friends: This long article is from NY Times today (24 03 2012): -bhuban ertise on NYTimes.com March 22, 2012, 7:13 AM Why Choose a Women’s College? By NEHA THIRANI HIGHER EDUCATION The Choice on India Ink Guidance on American college applications for readers in India from