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...short prayer to the Lord Ganesha asking that the show proceed without any obstacles. This was followed by a playful and whimsical dance called a pushpanjali, or a flower offering, which juxtaposed two types of classical dance from south India—Mohiniattam and the more energetic Kuchipudi. Dancers Vani E. Nambudiri ’09 and Amrapali Maitra ’10 alternated individual performances of the different forms before finishing off the act dancing in unison, showing the overlap between the two. Following the Pushpanjali was a wonderful song, performed by three singers, Rajiv Venkataramanan...
...notes. A fifth-grader in the Bronx reduced a regular donor to tears with this note: "No one has ever done anything that nice for me before ... I want to do something nice for you. Just let me know what you need, and I'll take care of it." Vani Khajuria, a North Carolina fourth-grader, wrote her patron, "My children's children's children will treasure this book." Eloquent proof that a minute or two on a website can have an effect for generations. --By Amanda Bower
...many ways, the two of them, along with my other close friends from my first year--Roz, Vani, Hema, and Katie--gave me a family away from home, which brings me to my final piece of advice: find a home for yourself at Harvard. It can be a room, a group of friends, a favorite spot in the Yard. For some of my friends it has been the Law School Library, for others it has been 14 Plympton (The Crimson), for still others, it has been the Grille. For me, it has been the company of my blockmates. But once...
Divorced. By Virginia Sinclair Mdivani, 48, daughter of the late Oil Tycoon Harry Sinclair: Prince David Mdi-vani, 63, Czarist emigre, last of the three "Marrying Mdivanis"; after 19 years of marriage, one son; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he harassed her continually); in Los Angeles...
...Harry's, most cosmopolitan bar and gossip-parlor in Venice, word was going round that "Prince" David, the last of the marrying Mdi-Vani's, had just become engaged to blonde Muriel ("Honey") Johnson of Bronxville, N. Y. The Countess Haugwitz Reventlow was once the wife of his brother "Prince" Alexis...