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...stinks. -Wamiqur Rehman Gajdhar, New DelhiI completely agree. We're having intense negotiations now. In July our Basketball Without Borders, a clinic bringing in outstanding young talent from around Asia, is going to be held in New Delhi. So we're very interested in getting more games in the Indian market...
Helen Pickett’s “Eventide,” for example, was wondrously cosmopolitan. Pickett, one of the three female choreographers, merged classical East Indian music with that of Western composers for her score. The merger directed the movement. Dancers displayed quick, sharp footwork, but then surprised with slower, sensuous pair interactions. The piece culminated in a kinetic explosion. Set against the backdrop of an abstract expressionist painting, the corps and the principal dancers responded almost instinctively to musical cues. They splattered and dripped with the flick of Pickett’s brush...
Real estate executives seeking a Harvard Business School education can take a seminar in a prime new location this June. The South Asia Real Estate Seminar, a collaborative effort between the HBS Executive Education Program and the HBS Indian Research Center, will offer a four-day workshop in Hyderabad, India that aims to connect experienced executives in real estate with HBS faculty familiar with current industry research. Using the Business School’s renowned case study method, the course aims to equip participations with skills that enable them to better evaluate the opportunities and obstacles in South Asia?...
...most colorful recent sign of detente was Pakistan's decision to partly lift its ban on Indian films. Officially, Bollywood movies have been banned in Pakistan since the 1965 war between the two countries. But Indian stars and big-budget dance numbers have a huge following in Pakistan, and are now widely available via black-market DVDs. Indian films shot in third-party countries have been allowed in Pakistan for the past four years, and now a Pakistani Senate Committee says it will allow in 12 Indian films a year as long as Pakistani films are shown in India...
...flashpoint in six decades of conflict has been Kashmir, which is claimed by both India and Pakistan. For years Pakistan had actively supported a guerrilla insurgency against the Indian authorities, but Islamabad seems to have bent to U.S. pressure and called off the biggest Pakistan-sponsored Kashmir jihadist groups. Pakistani officials long suspected of meddling in Kashmir have lately been kept busy with problems closer to home, such as the insurgencies along the the border with Afghanistan and elsewhere in Pakistan...