Word: ravi
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...Ravi Mirchandani, who edited Adiga's book and was sitting beside him at the table, the win was especially sweet. The White Tiger was the first book he bought for Atlantic, which hired him in 2006 after he was fired from a job at Random House. The novel was shown to him by Adiga's agent, who insisted that he read it that night and make an almost instant decision about whether to bid for it. "I sat down with the manuscript and after the first six pages I was just so excited," Mirchandani said. "When you're reading...
...past 18 months, and there may be more to come: forest guards report that two more tigresses may be pregnant. The sudden abundance of tiger tots has delighted conservationists. Some are already looking into the future and predicting a problem of plenty. "These babies are great news," says Ravi Singh, head of the World Wildlife Fund in India. "The question is, 'What happens next?' When they grow up, when they're bristling tigers that end up in your yard, will we still love them...
...junior inductees are Isha Agarwal, Charles R. Drummond, Marta M. Figlerowicz, Marina Fisher, Rachel J. Gottlieb, Matthew J. Hall, Kevin M. Jonke, Elissa Leechawengwongs, Paul J. R. Leopando, Samuel F. Lichtenstein, Kyle A. Mahowald, Alexander W. Marcus, Andrew C. Miller, Shira A. Mitchell, Noah L. Nathan, Ravi B. Parikh, Charles J. Redlick, Julia E. Schlozman, Tharanga N. Senaratne, Malorie N. Snider, Zeba A. Syed, Allison K. Turbiville, Jimmy C. Yang, Lauren E. Yapp. —Staff writer Alissa M. D’Gama can be reached at adgama@fas.harvard.edu
...audience will hear about how each of these panelists overcame their own challenges,” said Khaire. Other panels on Sunday will include business leaders like the chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council, executives from Goldman Sachs, and a Bollywood director. Chairman of Microsoft India Ravi Venkatesan said he was excited to participate in one of the panels. “It’s exhilarating to interact with bright and passionate young minds and get them excited about the amazing opportunities unfolding in India,” Venkatesan said in a press release. —Staff...
...wanted her to do a Learning from Performers event.” Renowned trumpeter Marcus Belgrave mentored Allen in her hometown of Detroit; since then, she has played and recorded with a seemingly endless list of notable and diverse musicians—Bill Cosby, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, Ravi Coltrane, and Marianne Faithfull, to name but a few. Allen has also put out a dozen albums. Most recently, the Walt Whitman Arts Center and Meet the Composer commissioned her to write “For the Healing of the Nations,” a jazz piece in tribute...