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...Hindus worldwide, yesterday marked the beginning of the New Year. The festival of lights known as Diwali is a time of celebration. Hindus pray to Lakshmi--the goddess of wealth and good luck--with hope that the forthcoming year will be a healthy and prosperous one. Families come together, savory foods are prepared and fire-crackers are burst in celebration. Lamps are lit to pay obeisance to the Gods and also to symbolize the lifting of spiritual darkness...
...contrast to Harvard's myriad theatrical productions, concerts and coffee-house-readings, there is a distinct paucity of visual art mounted by students for public display. An anomaly in the Harvard art world, the exhibition of student work by Elizabeth Lakshmi Kanter '99 in Eliot Basement reaches a caliber of aesthetic quality sure to inspire an increase in independent student showings. Comprised of work by six student artists, the intense subject matter of "Departures, Losses, Separations", is well suited to the intimate exhibit space of the basement-turned-gallery...
...feel that the security in Harvard Yard is adequate. If people are careful, nothing will happen," said Lakshmi S. Atri...
...socialism, hoping to bring industry, literacy and, above all, modernity to an India that was in many areas poverty stricken and backward. Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy of fierce anticolonialism. In 1960 he became a founding member of the nonaligned movement; his sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit served as an early president...
...dead simultaneously. The feat has been accomplished by having Teddy Ottinger unwittingly rain a pattern of 70 million plague-infested paper lotuses throughout the world while flying the cult's private 707 on what she thought was a promotion tour. Only five people are left: Kalki/Kelly, his wife Lakshmi, her obstetrician, Teddy and a female geneticist named Geraldine. All lower animal life is also spared, presumably to rediscover the peaceable kingdom. The survivors discover that treachery and surprises have not ended with Kali-yuga...