Events 
Globalizing Inequality
Talk by P. Sainath
Feb 25
Ravikiran/Shashank
Flute-Lute Jugalbandi
Feb 26
GPTM Pongal
Feb 26
Andaz
Feb 26
Prabashi Saraswati Puja
Feb 26
Sri Lanka Benefit Concert
March 5
REAL - Youth to Youth
March 6
Maha Shivaratri
March 8
TM Krishna (Vocal)
March 11
AID Global Harmony Concert
March 12
Uday Bhawalkar (Dhrupad)
March 18
Tsunami Relief
GPTM Pongal
Feb 26
Sri Lanka Benefit Concert
March 5
AID Global Harmony Concert
March 12
In Quotes
"When 37 children died of hunger outside
Bombay, the country's leading magazine gave it a measly two pages -- nine pages were given to the Imran Khan wedding."
--P. Sainath
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Meddle or Muddle in Nepal?
Things have been moving quickly in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal. The elected government was dismissed by
King Gyanendra, and a clmapdown commenced with hundreds arrested, newspapers shut down and the internet stopped. Mohan Guruswamy examines
India's responsibilities to itself and to the Nepalis.
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Dis-harmony in Speech, Harmony in Music
A curious thing happens between India and Pakistan: when politicians talk, the disharmony increases. When musical groups visit, it is
harmony which ensues. Swarna Rajagopalan examines this pattern, and writes about the phenomenal receptivity to Pakistani musicians in India, and vice-versa.
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The buck stops...where?
With hundreds of billions spent in Iraq, evidence has come to light of billions unaccounted for, tens of billions wasted, and large sums overcharged by crony contractors. It is about time Congress started exercising its
constitutional responsibility of oversight, says Arianna Huffington. More...
A Pakistani Physicist Looks at India
One of Pakistan's well-known nuclear scientists visited Indian recently as the recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Award.
A different perspective from Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, who visited all kinds of scientific institutions and met with a wide cross-section of Indians.
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Has the System gone Awry?
As the Shankaracharya case has entered its second quarter, it reveals a disturbing pattern. Allegations of
torture and forced confessions don't seem to worry either the judges or the public. If this can happen in full public gaze, wonders
TVR Chari, what quality of justice awaits the average citizen?
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Celebrating Turban Awareness Day/Week/Month
In the relentless drive towards diversity awareness that has become the rage in our land, Melvin Durai is keen that the
(t)urban elite should not be overlooked. He is deturbaned determined that this segment of society should get its due share of fairness, and is all (head)geared up to
fight to the last yard of cloth for this capital cause.
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Movie Review: Hari Om
The 28th Portland Film Festival featured Hari Om, a Hindi-French-English movie which played to full houses of
appreciative audiences. Aside from capturing the visual beauty of Rajasthan, the movie proved to
be a rather sophisticated debut. Niranjan Ramakrishnan reviews the film.
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Movies
Black(Hindi)
Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee
Feb 27
Cinemagic
Nuvvostanante Nevaddantana (Telugu)
Sidharth, Trisha
March 5
Regal Evergreen Pkwy 13
Featured Event
P. Sainath, Rural Editor of The Hindu,
is visiting Portland to give a talk.
Sainath's lecture, Globalizing Inequality, is at the University of Washington, Vancouver on
Feb 25.
Details.
Sainath received the European Commission's Lorenzo Natali
Prize and a Times of India scholarship for coverage of rural poverty.
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