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...fastest economic growth and the most thorough dispersion of wealth to villages and small cities. The southern state of Kerala, not far from Madras, is full of billboards advertising gold jewelry. At most local weddings, the bride is expected to turn up covered in gold necklaces, bangles, and earrings. Ambika Menon, a Kerala social worker, says that the gold obsession is a manifestation of change. New money is breaking down old hierarchies and caste distinctions. "Putting gold on your daughter at her wedding is a way of announcing, 'I've arrived in society. I'm someone important,'" Menon says...
...initiative for the campaign came from Ambika Patni '02, whose parents and aunts live in India and felt the effects of the quake. Patni said the reports of devastation that she read in the newspapers and the first-hand accounts of her relatives gave her a feeling of helplessness that inspired her to seek a meaningful way in which she and the Harvard community could contribute to the relief work...
Naidu was also featured in another act, titled "Jugalbandhi'-A Competition." In this act, she and Ambika Patni '02 highlighted the differences between the Bharata Natyam and Odissi styles of traditional dance...
...Naidu was also featured in another act, titled "'Jugalbandhi'--A Competition." In this act, she and Ambika Patni '02 highlighted the differences between the Bharata Natyam and Odissi styles of traditional dance...
...AMBIKA...
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