The first South Asian Surgeon General, the fall of Satyam, Billionairs blow ups....what next?

Meet our Sponsor - Attorney Jan Albrecht [more]

Lead Features, Local Happenings, Performing Arts, People, Contributions and Lifestyle.

(This article is sponsored by Attorney Trupti Patel)
Featured personalities of 2008 included Samrat Chakrabarti, Shubhra Chandra, Charu Puri Sharma, Kalpana Chaterjee, Kumudhi Gupta... The stories that were on the pages of Lokvani. [more]

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From Bollywood star Shatrugan Sinha to the great social entrepreneur Dr. Ashok Khosla, dancers Sangita Raghunathan and Suman Asidesh and Phillips Academy faculty Raj Mundra, Lokvani featured several interesting people. [more]

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Shilpa celebrated New Year with her beau Raj Kundra and Family in the beautiful city of Puerto Banus in Marbella, Spain. [more]

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Events celebrating Indian festivals, culture, education, sports and business were all part of our activities! [more]

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From picking an art form for your kid to learn to identifying fake art a lot of topics were covered in 2008. We thank contributing columnist Minna Phillips for her insightful articles. [more]

Mesmerizing! Absolutely Entertaining! are some of the expressions by those who were present at Shailee Shah's Nritya Nipuna. [more]

UIA's New Year's celebrations in the Desi style. People were all dressed in gorgeous Indian attire, glittering and shimmering Salwar and Ghagra outfits with 95% of the people attending on the dance floor! [more]

Firstly, its called 'Pongal' and not 'Thanksgiving' and it's celebrated for four days. What are they celebrating? A good harvest of course. In South India the major food crops are rice and sugarcane, which are harvested in early January. So Pongal is usually celebrated in the third week of January. [more]

The Boston Chapter of the Network of South Asian Professionals (NetSAP-Boston) held its annual holiday gala celebration and Executive Board Election at Tantric India Bistro in the heart of Boston's Downtown on Saturday, December 13th. [more]

Join HAF for its second annual awareness event in Boston on February 22, 2009 to learn more about its advocacy efforts on behalf of the Hindu American community and how you can help. [more]

Telugu (also called Andhra Bhasha) is one of the classical languagesof India spoken by about 80 million people, and ranked 7th in Asia and 14th in the world. [more]

With your support, from new temple construction and hiring a priest to performing Pran Pratishta for many of the Murtis, Sarva Dev Mandir made tremendous strides in 2008! [more]

Meeting in the backdrop of the current financial crisis, which has affected their business by at least 20 percent, Asian American convenience store owners met in Tampa, Florida to have a brain storming session to evolve a joint strategy on their most pressing problem of the day. [more]

Chandni Chowk To China featuring Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone and Mithun Chakraborty is coming to a theater near you on January 16th. [more]

Sapna Rohra, 25, and Shivani Thakkar, 23, Win Verizon’s Bollypop Dance Competition and Get Their Big Break: Dancing in a Bollywood Movie. [more]

A healthy skin is an excellent defense barrier against bacteria, viruses and fungi, which can enter through this route. So here is what we can do to maintain the health of our skin. [more]

Gita Jayanti is the anniversary of the day, nearly 6000 years ago, when Sanjaya recited the words which Bhagwan Shri Krishna spoke to Arjuna, on the battlefield in Kurukshetra, for the blind King Dhritarashtra. Along with the epic of the Mahabharata, this Divine Song was transcribed into words by Maharishi Veda Vyasji for the benefit of humanity. [more]

Congratulations to Somnath Chattopadhyay, Shailesh Goregaokar, Sahil Suresh and Bharath Venkataraman, who were the winner of the last set of puzzles. Here is one easy puzzle for students and one for adults. [more]

(This article is sponsored by Sounds Of India)
This is Part II of the wonderful musical selections we reviewed in 2008. [more]

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.
If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl. [more]

Asatyam - For the Game of the Money! [more]

With the New Year, we celebrate the Harvest festival in India with some recipes for Pongal. [more]

Can you guess where this sculpture is located? [more]

A quote from Munshi Premchand, one of the greatest writers of India. Share your favorites quote with us. [more]

Brigadier General (Retd.) Sita Ram Nautiyal, father of Ragini Seth and Shiamin Melville of Northboro, MA, the first Indian to be commissioned to the Corps of Engineers in the British Army, died peacefully in his sleep on Christmas morning at age 95. [more]