Events 
Bhagavad Gita Jayanti Mahotsav
Dec 26
Pongal-O-Pongal
Jan 15 
New Year Poem
Music we enjoy
Literature we delve into
Socializing bucks us up
Atrractions become addictive
Politics is a maze
and ensnares all of us
These help us only
to while away Time.
Meditation
is the only thing
Which leads to Peace
Hope the New Year
Dawns with hope for
Peace
Vasantha Ramakrishnan
(Portland, OR)
Joke Sabha
Only in India
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Why not me? Rethinking AIDS
When tennis ace Arthur Ashe got HIV, someone asked him if he ever wondered, "Why me"? Ashe replied, "When I won
Wimbledon, I never asked, "Why me"? I have no right to ask myself that question now. But Chitra Akileswaran, a young
lady working with AIDS patients, asks, "Why not me?"
More...
Packed House for Sita Kalyanam
Another Portland troupe offers a successful Bharatanatyam performance, this one out of the Ramayanam, showcasing Sita's wedding.
Lakshmi Jagannathan reviews the sold-out show, and muses about what goes into teaching children dance - the steps are easier to teach than the
mindset. More...
In a tearing hurry
So much to do -- judges to appoint, social programs to stop, forests to level, but all this requires Congress too, where there
there are rules and procedures, like the filibuster. Well never mind, let's shred the rules too! Arianna Huffington writes
on the Bush Administration's plans. More...
Lincoln Vs. Douglas - on the Euphrates?
Now that the US has promised to hold elections in Iraq come hell or high water, Melvin Durai dusts off some recent memories
to visualize an Iraqi prime (ministerial) time debate. It's hard work, but he has a plan, and is not one to cut and run! More...
Islamabad Diary
Indians can be found visiting every corner of the world, but next-door Pakistan seems as distant as the North Pole.
Swarna Rajagopalan describes
her recent trip to Islamabad, echoing the line from Veer Zaara, "If they're so different, why do they look so much like me?"
She finds Pakistanis just as curious about Indians as Indians are about them.
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Recalling 2004 (Could we, please?)
A friend dies. Elections in Spain, Russia and India. Bush reelected. Abu Ghraib.
Deeper into the quagmire in Iraq. Shankaracharya arrested, associates tortured.
MS Subbulakshmi dead. Soldier asks Rumsfeld why they have to scrounge for armor. An episodic view of 2004. More...
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Movies
Shwaas
 
In Quotes
"The one shortage envisioned was of rose-petals: not enough to go around as the grateful people of Iraq lined up to welcome their American liberators.
No one in the Pentagon could have thought that a year and a half after President Bush proclaimed "Mission accomplished" American troops would be complaining of a shortage of vehicle armour. "
--Ayaz Amir, in Dawn
"In Iraq, as Yogi Berra would say, the future ain't what it used to be..."
--Maureen Dowd, in the NY Times
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