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...data collected, dropped by a whopping 47% by the project's end in 2008. The entire three years cost organizers just $300,000, and participation rates increased from one in six women of childbearing age in the first year to more than half in the third. Sebati Thakur, a 23-year-old from Keonjhar district in Orissa, lost her first baby to a bacterial infection. She began attending the meetings with her mother-in-law, learning, she says, to "go for checkups, take iron and get a Tetanus shot." Last year she gave birth to a healthy girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In India, Getting Mothers Talking Saves Babies' Lives | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...just look at the art and leave." Items on display aren't limited to fine art. The current show, "Her Work Is Never Done," runs until March 20 (and again from March 26 to April 17) and features hats from milliner Shilpa Chavan, home products from graphic designer Divya Thakur and animated films by award-winning director Gitanjali Rao. "People still think of Indian art in terms of [venerable painter] M.F. Husain. We want to educate them about other types of art," adds Mehta. (See 25 authentic Asian experiences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Time you're in ... Mumbai | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...Neil Thakur, ACWORTH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Al Roker | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Kesri Singh, the "thakur" of the erstwhile kingdom of Mandawa, looks like an old-fashioned Indian maharajah. Over six feet tall, with a barrel chest and imperious paunch, he wears the upturned bristly gray moustache that his father and grandfather sported in their own time to mark their nobility. That much is clear from the oil paintings that loom behind Singh on a hot early morning on the verandah of his 71-room hotel, the Castle Mandawa, in the northwestern Indian region of Rajasthan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maharajah and the Merchants | 6/19/2007 | See Source »

...well as 15 novels, the first of which was turned into a film, “Viva Max!” in 1969. “Jim Lehrer is a familiar face to all have watched the presidential debates in the last few elections,” said Michael Thakur ’01, head class marshal of the Harvard Law School class of 2006 and a former Crimson editor. “I’m sure he’ll have some interesting insights to share from his front-row seat on the stage of presidential election history...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Grads Walk, Lehrer To Talk | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

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