Word: sanskrit
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Manav K. Bhatnagar ’06 is a Sanskrit and Indian studies concentrator in Eliot House. Benjamin B. Collins ’06 is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House. Both are Project Officers of the Harvard Darfur Action Group...
...team, for example, fields as many computer science majors as their economics counterparts. Likewise, the women’s lightweight crew boasts 11 biology or biochemical sciences concentrators—half its upper-class roster—and a slew of rowers studying in less frequently chosen fields, from Sanskrit and Indian Studies to Environmental Science and Public Policy. The glaring omission from the slate? Psychology...
...been five years since the spirituality-seeking Madonna, dressed in a sari and adorned with a tilaka marking on her forehead, sang a self-composed Sanskrit song at the MTV awards before a backdrop of Hindu god images?simultaneously raising the West's awareness of Hinduism and incurring the ire of the religion's faith police. Things Indian have only gotten trendier since. But as Madonna discovered, cashing in on Hinduism can be a mixed blessing...
...born in the university town of Dhaka, India to an academic family: His father was a chemistry professor and his grandfather had taught Sanskrit. Sen has written that he knew early in his life that he, too, would become an academic. The only open question was what he would teach...
...performance and grades was severely discouraged,” he wrote in an autobiographical statement upon receiving the Nobel Prize. The teachers instead emphasized the importance of genuine curiosity as the impetus behind education and, ultimately, creative thought. Under this eccentric tutelage, Sen considered careers in physics, mathematics and Sanskrit before deciding to pursue economics...