Word: anand
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...easy" or how "hard" is it to be Queen Raina? -Anand Srivastava in Hyderabad, India It's hard and it's easy and everything in between. It's a cause, it's a project, it's a journey, with lots of fun and laughter. It's my life and its unique just like everyone else's. The hardest [part] is some of the misperceptions that are leveled against me as a person and against Muslim women. There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified...
...South Asian authors spoke to students last night about being Indian immigrants and incorporating their experiences into their fiction. The South Asian Association hosted writers Rishi Reddi and Pradeep Anand, two authors who recently published narratives drawing from their personal histories. Reddi, whose short story “Justice Shiva Ram Murthy” appeared first in the “Harvard Review” and later in the 2005 edition of “The Best American Short Stories,” began the discussion with a disclaimer. “I have to say I feel like...
...difficult to figure out the correlation from one work to another. In fact, each work would probably be stronger if it were to stand alone, as a couple of the works are very interesting, at least conceptually. Dayanita Singh’s “Visitors at Anand Bhavan, Allahabad” (2000) turns the lens on a group of museum visitors, in effect having the viewer see the viewers of another exhibit. In Vivan Sundaram’s “Bourgeois Family: Mirror Frieze,” from the series “Re-take of America?...
...really only one game that matters here and it's not hockey. In the build-up to the quadrennial World Cup - which opened Tuesday in Jamaica - cricket has dominated social conversation, magazine covers and the airwaves. "Cricket is the only game that can stop life in India," says Apurva Anand, a 21-year-old architecture student. "For the next few weeks my studies will just have to go on hold...
...authoritarian style, and the blurred line between his business interests and the national interest. Thaksin no longer commands much respect from the country's business, intellectual or social ?lites, nor from those close to the palace. Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanond has repeatedly made thinly veiled criticisms of Thaksin; Anand recently declared that Thailand could become "a failed state"; and social reformer Prawase Wasi produced a damning 10-point checklist of Thaksin's failings. Thaksin responded by complaining that his senior critics were "senile." Meanwhile, the dragged-out political crisis is hurting the economy: GDP growth in the second quarter...