India Dating: The Independent: Design: The Millennium Collection No 10: The Blatchford Intelligent Prosthesis (IP)
So far, more than 200 Millennium objects have been chosen for their excellent design. Each week we examine one LEGS, UNLIKE arms, are used primarily for mobility so it is much easier to replace a missing leg with a prosthesis than to manufacture an artificial arm with all of an arm's various functions. I imagine most people think that a false limb is just something practical, to be worn or not, but it is much more than that. A limb is a hugely important part of one's...
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The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble of India will depict a 2,500-year-old tale on the John Michael Kohler Arts Center theatre stage in Footlights performances April 9 and 11 (Family Series: Tuesday, April 9, 7 p.m. Performance Series: Thursday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.). Nrityagram's dance style exhibits a modern sensibility yet remains true to the classical dance forms of India. Nrityagram Dance Ensemble presents the ancient Hindu classical art form, odissi, in a performance titled...
India Dating: THE AIR WE BREATH IS THE AIR WITHIN
ORINDA : Keeping with the growing trend toward holistic health : where complementary therapies are augmenting the effects of traditional medicine : this quarter, students at John F. Kennedy University will be examining the fire, water and air elements which lurk within us all.Their instructor, Vijaya Stallings, is offering a course on the ancient principles of Ayuveda. He has a master's degree in counseling psychology, with an emphasis in holistic health. In 1990, after an...
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India: New call sounds to end child marriage
A brutal attack on a child welfare officer who tried to prevent three young girls from being married off in a mass ceremony has provoked outrage in India over the ancient practice of child marriage.Hundreds of government workers and social activists had been mobilized in the states of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh to prevent the illegal mass weddings of under-age boys and girls on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya, a lunar holy day regarded as particularly auspicious for weddings. Shakuntala...
India Dating: Hundreds enjoy dance, food to mark Diwali, the Hindu new year
Celebration brings light to Indian festivities By Tracy Burton Lansing State Journal OKEMOS - A time to celebrate. A time to share. A time to give.That is how many describe Diwali - a festival of lights and the beginning of the Hindu year.About 1,000 people filled Okemos High School's auditorium Sunday for a night of Indian culture with music, dances and a feast.The event is hosted by Bharatiya Temple of Lansing. Diwali is celebrated each year in late autumn...