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...figure at the center of the election, and perhaps the most controversial politician in India, is Narendra Modi, Gujarat's chief minister. Modi, a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is hailed by his supporters as a modernizer who has built new roads, brought electricity and streetlights to villages and attracted new business to Gujarat. To his detractors, Modi will always be the man who stoked the sectarian tensions that made the 2002 riots possible. The riots followed a train car fire that killed dozens of Hindu pilgrims. Within hours of the blaze, later blamed...
...Modi has proved himself 10 out of 10." Pravin Naik, head of the BJP's Surat branch, says the idea that Modi was part of communal tensions or violence is a "whole myth." "There has not been a single incident of communal violence since [the 2002 riots]," he says. "Narendra Modi is the only competent chief minister in India." The results of this month's poll will tell how many agree with...
Cameron S.H. Winklevoss ’04, Tyler O.H. Winklevoss ’04, and Divya K. Narendra ’04, of the rival networking site ConnectU, claim Zuckerberg promised in 2003 to help them develop their site, but then abandoned the project to start Facebook...
...Dinner?,” which revolved around an Indian family in America who receive a surprise visit from their relatives in India. Especially compelling—and humorous—performances were given by Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07 and Varun K. Narendra ’07, who both played elder Indian family members. Setting up yet another contrast between the old and new worlds of South Asian culture, the actors made a number of jabs on both sides of the line. Some jokes may have been a bit subtle for those unversed...
...creators of ConnectU LLC allege in their lawsuit that facebook.com creator, Mark E. Zuckerberg, stole the concept for his popular networking site from an earlier venture, Harvard Connection, and exploited his access to the ConnectU source code. Plaintiffs in the civil case—ConnectU LLC creators, Divya K. Narendra ’04, Cameron S. H. Winklevoss ’04, and Tyler O. H. Winklevoss ’04—are asking a United States District Court to shut down facebook.com and have the site cover their losses. In their subpoenas, attorneys for the plaintiffs are asking...