Yâjnavalkya was a great sage. The Shastras in India enjoin that every man should give up the world when he becomes old. So Yajnavalkya said to his wife, "My beloved, here is all my money, and my possessions, and I am going away."
She replied, "Sir, if I had this whole earth full of wealth, would that give me immortality?"...
Shreya Ghosal captivates ChicagoansCHICAGO: Sahil and L.A. Tan, the local Chicago promoters, presented Shreya Ghoshal Live in Concert at Akoo Theatre, in Rosement Friday, September 14. On public demand Shreya sang some old golden melodies in addition to her own, newer hit songs.The program started with entry of Iqubal Jafri as MC and a few performances by local artists...
NEW YORK: Leading fashion jewelry company Carolee has announced winners of its year-long jewelry design competition with New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. Among the winners is Prakshi Sharma, a graduate from FIT who won the top award for social/bridal category.
The competition has been a key part of the company's 40th Anniversary celebration this year, which carries the theme...
NEW DELHI: Kiran Soni Gupta, a senior bureaucrat from Rajasthan and a versatile artist, has established new heights in the field of visual arts. She is the first artist from Rajasthan who will get the honor to share her artwork at the most coveted platform, Le Louvre, which is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art...
LOS ANGELES, CA: Freestyle Releasing has acquired the domestic theatrical rights to Jinn, a tension filled supernatural thriller from Detroit-based Exxodus Pictures. The film, written and directed by Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, was produced by Ahmad and Benjamin Dresser, and stars Ray Park ("Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace"), Faran Tahir ("Iron Man", "Star Trek"), William Atherton ("Die Hard",...
NEW YORK: New York and Mumbai-based Molecule Communications unveils its first Bollywood event in the Big Apple, Ticket2Bollywood. The two-day educational conference, themed Bollywood: Beyond the Song and Dance, features some of the most successful Indian filmmakers in the business. It also provides a platform for aspiring and established actors, directors, and producers to glean "insider" information about direction,...
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles (32 kilometers) away, she must rely on rides from her relatives or her boyfriend.
Most Californians her age can drive. But Esquivel, a college freshman, was brought illegally to the United States from Mexico when she was...
JACKSON, Miss.: Gov. Phil Bryant and other Mississippi residents were premature in their challenge to the federal law requiring people to buy health care insurance, a federal judge has ruled.
District Judge Keith Starrett also knocked the governor and another man out as plaintiffs, The Hattiesburg American reported. Both have health insurance, and wouldn't be affected by the law unless...
SYDNEY: Young children with severe or persistent asthma are more likely to develop many common mental health problems like anxiety and depression, an Australian study says.
University of Western Australia (UWA) psychologist and study co-author Monique Robinson said their findings build on previous studies which have found that as the severity of asthma increases, so do problems such as anxiety...
WASHINGTON: Kids seem to have an aversion to eating vegetables, but you can make your child have more greens by using attractive names for healthy foods, according to a new study. Researchers from the Cornell University conducted a couple of studies to explore whether a simple change such as using attractive names would influence kid's consumption of vegetables.
In the...