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Director of India’s Deendayal Research Institute Nandita Pathak told a crowd in Lowell Library yesterday that integral humanism—which emphasizes the holistic development of communities—was integral to the development of Indian villages. According to Pathak, the problems of development stem from plans that lack great involvement from the people they are designed to help. Pathak said that development should instead flow from the bottom up. This type of grass-roots development can be achieved with integral humanism, she added. To stress the importance of the project to India’s well...
...said Pamela J. Worth, a marcher who recently graduated from Smith College. “It sounded like a worthy cause,” said Oludamini D. Ogunnaike ’07, president of the Harvard African Students Association, which organized the walk in collaboration with Nandita Dinesha, a Wellesley College senior. The group, Ogunnaike said, wanted “to help make it happen.” Civil war has plagued northern Uganda for the past 19 years. The LRA, led by the self-proclaimed prophet Joseph Kony, routinely abducts children into its ranks, often forcing them to kill...
...only election I know with a 100% turnover in eligible voters each year. The festival bosses choose nine or 10 distinguished members of the film and literary community to serve. This year's Jury comprises directors Emir Kusturica (President), Fatih Akin, Benoit Jacquot, Agnes Varda and John Woo; actresses Nandita Das and Salma Hayek; actor Javier Bardem; and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison...
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Dreamy young movie stars usually don't worry about much--other than perhaps how to conceal their age. But Nandita Das doesn't like life to be quite so ordinary. Cross-legged and barefoot in her modest New Delhi apartment, she's steaming about the opposition of Hindu fanatics to a movie she's set to appear in, fretting about the state of artistic freedom in India and getting set to join relief efforts for victims of last October's deadly cyclone. She's also in mid-production on three movies. "I don't think I want to do acting...