Word: vikram
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...That film was followed by Lagaan and Bend it Like Beckham - two breakout hits by fellow Indian directors - and by my own movie, Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon. Today Bollywood is on as many screens in Times Square as in Jackson Heights. The literary world has learned to pronounce Vikram and Amitav and Jhumpa, and an Amrita Sher-Gil can fetch as much as a Warhol at auction. A click on the Internet instantly conveys the burgeoning scope of South Asian cultural confidence, yielding details of hundreds of art galleries, concerts, readings, plays and indie films. When I was invited...
...senior at Gilligan’s alma mater, Haddon Township High School in New Jersey. The foundation will also annually award a fellowship in his honor of $2,500 for purposeful summer study or travel to a resident of Eliot, where Gilligan lived during his time at the College. Vikram Viswanathan ’06 was selected by the Eliot House Fellowship Committee as the first recipient. Gilligan racked up numerous honors in his short life—though, as his sister, Lindsey A. Gilligan ’08 said, Paul preferred receiving laughs to receiving praise. He was valedictorian...
...Sacred Games" by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins; January...
...well-attended BookExpo buzz panel, Vikram Chandra's massive debut novel (1,000-plus pages) was championed by HarperCollins' publisher, who promised that the book will "do for Indian literature what 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' did for South American literature." Amazon.co.uk gives a preview of the tome: "This epic novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India...
...Class of ’03 grad and former president of Harvard’s College Bowl club who wants to be a doctor. Who is Vikram J. Vaz? Vaz, once a Pforzheimer resident, is now among 15 contestants in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions, with the chance to win $250,000. One of the hardest parts has been figuring out when to buzz in. “For someone who played on College Bowl, I want to buzz in early,” he said. “That’s a horrible, horrible move on the show...