Word: jayant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...step up. As a member of the scheduled castes, he is required to name the caste community he belongs to, which is based in the southern state of Kerala. It was not on the census list. Embarrassed officials suggested he skip that column. He refused. India's census commissioner Jayant Kumar Banthia says that separate scheduled caste lists are compiled for each state. This, however, does not take account of the movement of people from one part of the country to another...
...softspoken, and an actor's director as well. Arkin comes closer than ever before to breaking through the reserve that sometimes straitjackets his unquestionable comic technique. Judy Graubart is winning as his realistic girlfriend. The guys at the lab- Austin Pendleton, William Finley, Wallace Shawn, Max Wright and Jayant-manage to satirize every imaginable form of intellectual hubris. Their cause is a worthy one, and so is their director's debut...
...Died. Jayant Madhvani, 49, East African industrialist and, as the oldest of Uganda's Madhvani brothers, head of one of Black Africa's largest family-owned and locally based corporate empires; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. After the death of his father in 1958, Madhvani, an Indian, became the main driving force behind 63 companies worth $56 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Credited with building East Africa's first steel mill, the soft-spoken Hindu also served as globetrotting eco-nomic ambassador for the region. "We don't want history...
...creation, which holds that the universe is still being formed by particles that appear out of nothing in empty space. When he presented his new gravitation theory to a packed meeting of Britain's venerable Royal Society, he modestly described his work, done in collaboration with Indian Mathematician Jayant V. Narlikar, as a slight extension of Einstein's theory of general relativity. "We are clearly aware," he explained, "that in putting forward still another idea we may be like small boys trying to steal apples...
...salt, flour and seashells. Eventually he traded up to bicycles and farm tools, plowed the profits into new ventures, and bought the sugar plantation for almost nothing from white landowners afraid of the tsetse fly. Madhvani broke in his sons as plantation laborers and ruled with an iron hand. Jayant recalls that "all our meetings were held over the dinner table, and we never left his presence until 11:30 in the evening." Though he has been dead since 1958, Muljibhai's presence is still felt in another way. His ashes rest in a brass box in a filing...