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...foundation has been able to exact a rare level of accountability from its grantees. In India the foundation runs an HIV/AIDS-prevention program that is headed by Ashok Alexander, formerly a senior partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He calls the 200,000 sex workers served by the program "customers" and the clinics "franchises." In the past year, he has cut off funding to three nongovernmental organizations because they did not meet agreed-upon milestones. "People are not used to being terminated for nonperformance, strange as it may seem," Alexander says...
...BOMBAY: Gems are more than accessories, says aura reader Ashok Sachdev. They help balance the planetary influences of your life. For $11 per half-hour, he can tell you what gems will aid your journey...
...favorite of local celebrities and socialites, ponytailed Peter So Man-fung is a feng shui master who has a propensity to appear in local movies and at hip nightclubs. He'll rearrange your furniture for about $320 a session Bombay: Gems are more than accessories, says aura reader Ashok Sachdev. They help balance the planetary influences of your life. For $11 per half an hour, he can tell you what gems will aid your journey Tokyo: At Tarim: House of fortune telling, you'll find a spiritual supermarket of 100 soothsayers offering various services, from tarot to physiognomy...
...unexpected quarter: state and federal police wielding wooden lathes and batons and firing rubber bullets and tear gas. By day's end more than 1,000 Hindu activists were in custody and another 15,000 had been loaded on to buses and trains and sent away. An outraged Ashok Singhal, leader of the rally's organizer, the militant Hindu group Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), was moved to declare: "They treat Hindus like animals in this country...
...Chitnis, who died last week at 91. Born in Karnataka, she was already a young mother of four when she began her film career in 1935. In her first bloom of beauty, she brought a natural dignity and a naturalist acting style to love stories with Master Vinayak and Ashok Kumar. Chitnis had the art of suffering radiantly: under arched eyebrows, her large, luminous eyes could hold glistening tears seemingly for hours on end, to cascade down her face with joy or agony in the final reel. In Raj Kapoor's Awaara, she was required to age 24 years...