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1 South Asians Fighting Heart Disease

According to the World Health Organization, by 2010, 60 % of the world’s cardiac patients will be Asian Indian. The scary part is we are already in 2010! Indeed South Asians are predisposed by genetics for a higher probability of heart disease, but the lifestyle and diet habits can have a huge impact on whether they actually get the disease. It need not be a food-fight between healthy and tasty: One couple’s battle to make Indian food more heart-healthy.

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0 Meera Gandhi on Giving Back

‘Giving Back’ is Meera Gandhi’s cinematic tribute to all her friends in high places and the good that they do for others through organizations for women and children, addressing everything from human rights to micro-credit. In the film she interviews Cherie Blair, Kerry Kennedy, U2’s singer Bono, Peter Raj Singh, interior designer Clodagh, Steven Rockefeller and others.
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0 An Apple Fanboy Says No to iPad

When the iPad was first announced I predicted that it would be a game changer. I really believed that this cool new device would solve the world’s technology problems and reduce the number of electronic gadgets I had to carry around.
It just doesn’t do its magic for me any longer. Here’s why…

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0 Nasdaq Dreams for MyCityWay

Thousands tread the crowded pavements of Times Square, surrounded by the glittering, psychedelic signage which includes the world-famous NASDAQ billboard.

New York City is certainly the place where wild dreams can come true. As Archana Patchirajan, a fairly new transplant from India, recalls, “Exactly 5 months back the three of us were walking in Times Square and said to each other, ‘We will be on the NASDAQ billboard one day!’ – and here we are!” And this dream did come true.

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2 Sa-Sensational!

They are probably some of the brainiest dancers in America, having graduated from top universities like Stanford to MIT to Harvard Business School. Indeed, between them, the sprightly Sa Dancers have degrees in everything from mechanical engineering to computer science – but they sure can dance!

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0 Returning Techies & the American Brain Drain

“Over drinks (some excellent Chilean wine), the minister told me of a new program that Chile is piloting to lure bootstrappers. Chile will grant $40,000 and provide some really cheap office space and accommodation to budding entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world. All they have to do is to build their products in one of the most beautiful locations on the planet. Chile is betting that once these entrepreneurs get there, they will never want to leave.”

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0 O, Desis Dreaming of Oprah

“Sometimes in life you have to take a chance no matter how much of a long shot it may be. It’s the same reason that drives us to buy a lottery ticket or even to take a chance on love after you’ve had your heart broken into a gazillion pieces,” says Ayesha Hakki, editor of Bibi Magazine and blogger behind Ruby40. “It’s with that attitude that I decided to submit an audition tape for Oprah’s search for a Talk Show Host for her OWN network .”
WATCH THE VIDEO. CAN IT MAKE IT TO THE SEMI-FINALS?

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0 Breakthrough’s ‘Bell Bajao’ Wins Cannes Silver Lion

When Mallika Dutt, director of Breakthrough, the international human rights organization, adopted the innovative, game-changing strategy of ‘Bell Bajao’ to combat domestic violence in communities, she turned to the advertising firm of Ogilvy & Mather to translate that vision into film.

Two of the films bagged the Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2010. Ogilvy & Mather had created these films for Breakthrough pro bono – so this just goes to show no good deed goes unrewarded!
WATCH THE AWARD-WINNING VIDEO. A CHAT WITH MALLIKA DUTT

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2 Indian Dance, Out of the Box

Lord Shiva danced the world into existence with a shake of his mighty damru, it is said, and we’ve been dancing ever since.You had to be at ‘Erasing Borders: Festival of Indian Dance’, a three day festival of dance in NYC to see how boldly the ghungroo bells ring and how feet and hands and bodies meld into a thing of beauty. What was eye-opening was the sheer diversity of the dance vocabulary and how it’s being interpreted by a whole new generation of dancers.
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0 Silicon Valley in the Slums

Introducing a new blog by Vivek Wadhwa on technology, immigration and more…
Meet the new Indian techies. Meena believes that if she works hard enough, she can build her own “big business”—maybe a Google. Girls with the ambition and confidence to enter the tech world are rare even in Silicon Valley but Meena lives in a slum in New Delhi.
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