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...Indian women want the same independence as their television heroines appear to enjoy, and have begun questioning the idea of marriage, which in India has traditionally occurred at a far younger age than in the West. Some, especially in the more Western-oriented southern Indian cities of Bangalore and Chennai, even trying live-in relationships. Of course, much of India remains rural and poor, and life for women outside the main urban centers is changing a lot more slowly...
...Loganathan, 51, was born in the southern Indian city of Chennai and had been a civil and environmental engineering professor at Virginia Tech since 1982. He won several awards for excellence in teaching, had served on the faculty senate and was an adviser to about 75 undergraduate students...
...ritzy premiere such as this would typically take place in Mumbai (Bombay) or in Ratnam's home town Chennai (Madras). But Bollywood films have eyes to be as popular in America as in India, Indonesia, the Middle East and North Africa, where they dominate cinematic culture. So the principals of Guru had come 7,800 miles to the Empire 25 theater just off Times Square in New York City to flack their film this weekend. (They'd been in Toronto the evening before.) Then Abhishek and Ash flew back to India, where, in a flourish that Brad and Angelina might...
...LeBlanc said. “Hopefully, a lot of high school teachers will now be using these documents in their classes.” The digitization is being carried out by CodeMantra, a company based in Plymouth Meeting, Pa., though the actual typing will be done in Chennai, India. Outsourcing has become standard for firms who specialize in digitization, LeBlanc said. “At this point, you would be very hard put to find a company that did this work in this country,” she said. —Staff writer Alex McLeese can be reached...
...nuclear attack or a natural disaster. Instead, the city simply ditched its British colonial--era moniker in favor of Bengalooru, which, in the local Kannada language, means "town of boiled beans." Other big Indian cities have already taken new names--Bombay is now Mumbai and Madras became Chennai. According to Kannada writer and Bengalooru advocate U.R. Ananthamurthy, such moves are a long-overdue reassertion of local identity. "It was the colonizer who changed the name first," he says...