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Zarir Warden of 'The Other People' to perform unplugged at Ellipses on wed 19th Dec 9 to 11.30 pm

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2nd Angling Festival at Kakching Lake

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2 nd Angling Festival at Kakching Lake 200 Enrolled for Fishing Competition Kakching, Manipur November 12, 2012 The 2 nd Angling Festival (Khoi Choppa) will be held at Kakching Laipham Loknung Irrigation Tank, known as Kakching Lake on November 11, 2012 on the eve of Ningol Chakouba. Over 200 competitors from all over the state of Manipur have enrolled to participate the fishing completion. The winners of the competition will be awarded cash reward. The first angling competition was held last year at the same lake one day before the eve of Ningol Chakouba. The Irrigation tank, known as Kakching Lake has varieties of indigenous fish. The over 10,000 public of Kakching and surrounding villages are invited to witness the festival. Ningol Chakouba is a unique Meitei festival held on every 2 nd Hiyangei, the Manipuri calendar, which falls on November 15 this year, the parents and brothers will invite their daughters and sisters for a special meal. They wi

Links to old classic and popular Hindi Songs

[2] OLD YET POPULAR HINDI SONGS   1937=President =Ek Bangla Bane Nyaara K.L.Saigal 1938=Street Singer =Babul Mora K.L.Saigal 1940=Zindagi =So Ja Rajkumari 1940=Zindagi =So Ja Rajkumari : Lata's Tirbute To Saigal 1940=Zindagi =Soja Rajkumari 1943=Tansen =Diya Jalao Jagmag Jagmag - K.L.Sehgal 1944=My Sister =Do Naina Matware K.L.Saigal 1945=Pehli Nazar =Dil Jalta Hai Mukesh 1946=Sahajehan =Jab Dil Hi Toot Gaya K.L.Saigal 1947=Do Bhai =Mera Sunder Sapna Beet Gaya 1948=Mela < Old > =Dharti Ko Aakash Pukare 1948=Mela < Old > =Gaaye Jaa Geet Milan Ke 1948=Mela < Old > =Yeh Zindagi Ke Mele 1948=Mela < Old > =Yeh Zindagi Ke Mele

An exhibition of 200 original photographs of the Holocaust on display at St. Xavier’s college till November 10

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  AN HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION BROUGHT TO THE CITY <br/> <br/> An exhibition of 200 original photographs of the Holocaust on display at St. Xavier’s college till November 10 <br/> <br/> Mumbai, November 7, 2012: The Consulate General of Israel in association with Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Maharashtra United nations Association have organized an education exhibit “The Courage to Remember” on the history of the Holocaust that consists of 40 panels with nearly 200 original photographs of the Holocaust at St Xavier’s college, Mumbai.   <br/> Mr. Sumit Mullick IAS, Chief of protocol, Government of Maharashtra was the chief guest of the opening ceremony held on 6 th November. Present for the occasion were The Consul General of Israel, Mrs.Orna Sagiv, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Ms. Mohini Mathur, Executive Chairperson, Maharashtra United Nations Association and Dr. (Fr.) Frazer Mascarhenas,

Nandita Das on Stage in Bangalore

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Theatre and our city, Avid Discussion, At Studio X, 4th July 2012

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Monsoon Festivals in India

Teej Where: North India, especially Rajasthan and Bihar When: Late July The Haritalika Teej is a fasting festival for Hindu married women. Women get together, dress up and then swing, umm... on jhoolas. It's the quintessential monsoon festival Adiperukku Where: Tamil Nadu When: Mid July-August Celebrated by women, the festival pays tribute to water's life-sustaining properties. It's always celebrated near river basins, water tanks, lakes and wells Dree Where: Arunachal Pradesh When: July 5 Celebrated every year at Nenchaleya by the Apatani tribes to propitiate the Dree god to protect the crops from pests and diseases Minjar Where: Himachal Pradesh When: July-August Celebrated in Chamba, this seven-daylong affair is a thanksgiving ceremony to the god of rain and a prayer for good harvest Behdienkhlam Where: Meghalaya When: July Pnar tribe celebrates this monsoon festival where young men make a symbolic gesture of driving away the evil spirit The North East has more

Harvey, show on Broadway, Variety review

Harvey (Studio 54; 1,002 seats; $140 top) By Marilyn Stasio 'Harvey' Jessica Hecht and Jim Parson in 'Harvey' A Roundabout Theater Company production of a play in two acts by Mary Chase. Directed by Scott Ellis. Myrtle Mae Simmons - Tracee Chimo Veta Louise Simmons - Jessica Hecht Elwood P. Dowd - Jim Parsons Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Angela Paton Ruth Kelly, R.N. - Holley Fain Duane Wilson - Rich Sommer Lyman Sanderson, M.D. - Morgan Spector William R. Chumley, M.D. - Charles Kimbrough Betty Chumley - Carol Kane Judge Omar Gaffney - Larry Bryggman E.J. Lofgren - Peter Benson Comedy can be deadly. Just a few directorial misjudgments and uh-oh, sudden death: forced laughs, desperate thesps, and an aud growing surlier by the minute. Something like that has befallen the Roundabout's revival of "Harvey," Mary Chase's 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a lovable man (memorably played by James Stewart in the 1951 movie) whose best friend is a 6-foot-