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...story centers on the tempestuous love/hate relationship between American Will Darcy and Indian Lalita Bakshi. He is the son of a wealthy hotel family; she is an independent and headstrong daughter of a mother eager to marry her and her three sisters off to well-established young bachelors. The storyline should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jane Austen, or any standard boy-meets-girl Hollywood romance, really; what makes this film so enjoyable is its marriage of Eastern style and Western content (especially fun to see when the setting moves to Los Angeles) and the way this...
...story centers on the tempestuous love/hate relationship between American Will Darcy and Indian Lalita Bakshi. He is the son of a wealthy hotel family; she is an independent and headstrong daughter of a mother eager to marry her and her three sisters off to well-established young bachelors. The pair meets in Amritsar, India at the wedding of a mutual acquaintance and sparks immediately fly. The storyline should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with Jane Austen, or any standard boy-meets-girl Hollywood romance, really; what makes this film so enjoyable is its marriage of Eastern style...
...Bakshi, a Social Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator, said that his experience with the Aina Arts program, the educational program in northern India last summer, was extremely rewarding...
...many students seem to agree. Bakshi said he has already received 65 applications from Harvard students alone for the 12 slots available for this year’s Aina Arts effort. Last year he received a total of 250 applications...
...Bakshi expects that study abroad programs in India will become even more popular once the SAI Mumbai office opens. “I think people will start coming in droves,” he said. “It’s a wonderful service they’re doing. Having someone there from Harvard is invaluable...