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| December 22nd and December 29th
Shows |
InConversation
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Darshan presents a very special
InConversation segment hosted by
four co-hosts: Anisha Abraham,
Aastha Verma, Sonya Gavankar and
Sonal Verma. They have covered a
very wide range of topics
including:
- Politics:
Presidential Candidate, Barack
Obama’s video on YouTube called,
“Barack OBollywood” (created by
Paul Manansala);
- Health: Raising awareness of
AIDS in India; fertility and
diet;
- Technology: Farmers in India
can text IIT Bombay for answers;
Hollywood is moving more
animation to India;
- Environment: Recycling in
India; Nobel Peace Prize shared
by Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri
of United Nations;
- Comedy: Why many young
Indian-Americans are “breaking
the mould” and entering into the
growing field of comedy;
- Bollywood movies: India
produces the largest number of
movies (which are seen by the
largest audience of the world);
these movies almost always have
an “Item Number” in which a very
attractive female character
(often unrelated to the main
cast and plot of the film)
performs a catchy song and dance
number in the film. This “Item
Number” propels viewers to watch
the movie, thus increasing the
box office revenues.
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Interview with Vijai Nathan:
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Anang Mittal speaks to Vijai
Nathan, a leading
Indian-American female comedian,
who performs both nationally and
internationally. Vijai mortified
her parents by giving up a
career in journalism, cancelling
her wedding, and becoming a
stand-up comedian – and she has
not looked back since! Her
unique perspective offers a new
spin on dating, childhood,
pop-culture, politics and
racism. |
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| December 15th Show |
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- Hospitals and medical
providers have a new plan to
extract payments from uninsured
patients - they are transforming
medical bills into consumer
debts by transferring patient
accounts to finance firms which
charge interest rates as high as
27% (BusinessWeek).
- Richard Branson has launched a
new company, Virgin Money USA,
which will act as a third-party
broker to manage lending among
friends and family members.
Borrowers get to build their
credit ratings and the interest
payments go to family members
rather than to bank (Fortune).
- With the growing senior
demographics, tech companies are
inventing new tools to serve the
boomer population. One such
device is a "Jitterbug" phone
with jumbo text, oversize
buttons and ergonomic ear
cushion; Verizon has announced
its own version (called Coupe)
which will cost $20 (Business
2.0).
- Northern Virginia's Thomas
Jefferson High School for
Science & Technology tops 100
"gold" schools. These rankings
are done by the US News & World
Report (WashPost).
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Family Armor:
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Ramesh Butani speaks to Surendra
Goel and Rama Kant, Co-Founders
of Family Armor, which provides
a free service to parents to
monitor their children’s web
activities, including the social
networking sites like MySpace,
YouTube, Xanga, Friendster, etc.
where predators lurk around to
entice children. Family Armor
provides this service either
through daily email or by
allowing parents to go into
their servers any time and from
any computer. For more
information on Family Armor, log
on to their website:
www.familyarmor.com; email: goel@familyarmor.com;
phone: 703-404-3775. |
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Christmas Carol:
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To follow the annual tradition,
Darshan invited “Simply Harmony”
choir to sing Christmas Carols
on the show. The group has two
Music Directors: Glenda Bastian,
and Dr. David Faria. Names of
choir members are: Louise Brown,
Christopher Castelino, Sneha
Chalissery, Legia Faria,
Marielena Faria, Manuel
Fernandes, Ruby Fernandes,
Renick Fernandes, Gisela Ghani,
Dr. Mala Britto-Prabhu, Conrad
Rebeiro, and Sheila Rebeiro. |
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December 8th Show |
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- Hospitals and medical
providers have a new plan to
extract payments from uninsured
patients - they are transforming
medical bills into consumer
debts by transferring patient
accounts to finance firms which
charge interest rates as high as
27% (BusinessWeek).
- Richard Branson has launched a
new company, Virgin Money USA,
which will act as a third-party
broker to manage lending among
friends and family members.
Borrowers get to build their
credit ratings and the interest
payments go to family members
rather than to bank (Fortune).
- With the growing senior
demographics, tech companies are
inventing new tools to serve the
boomer population. One such
device is a "Jitterbug" phone
with jumbo text, oversize
buttons and ergonomic ear
cushion; Verizon has announced
its own version (called Coupe)
which will cost $20 (Business
2.0).
- Northern Virginia's Thomas
Jefferson High School for
Science & Technology tops 100
"gold" schools. These rankings
are done by the US News & World
Report (WashPost).
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Interview with Sherry Little,
Deputy administrator, Federal
Transit Administration (DOT):
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Contact info.: phone:
(202) 366-4064; website:
www.fta.dot.gov.
Ramesh Butani talks to Ms.
Sherry Little about her recent
trip to Ahmadabad, Mumbai, and
New Delhi (India) to sign a
memorandum of cooperation (MOC)
between United States and India,
and her meetings with India's
Urban Development Minister, S.
Jaipal Reddy and other top
officials.
The MOC outlines agreement
between the two countries to
share transportation, scientific
and technological information,
exchange transportation
specialists, organize
seminars/training programs and
undertake other forms of
cooperation.
While in India, Ms. Little
learnt about the Indian deity, "Ganesha",
known as the "remover of
obstacles" and watched the
famous "Ganesha" festival. |
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| December 1st Show |
InConversation
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Ramesh Butani welcomes a new
co-host, Sonya Gavankar, a
journalist who hosts and edits
programs at Washington DC's
Newseum/Freedom Forum. Sonya was
elected as "Miss District of
Columbia" in 1997 and
represented Washington DC in
Miss America Pageant during that
year.
Ramesh and Sonya have discussed
many stories and some of them
are listed below:
- Issue discussed by the two
front-running Democratic
Presidential contenders, Senator
Hillary Rodham Clinton and
Senator Barack Obama: whether
people earning $97,500/year are
wealthy or middle-class in
context of paying social
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- The recent endorsement of
Senator Barack Obama by the
talk-show host, Oprah Winfrey;
- A recent change in Japanese
law which allows a wife filing
for divorce to claim as much as
half her husband's company
pension. Divorce filings in
Japan have spiked up since the
law was passed;
- Women's liberation - do they
need men to complete them;
- Political involvement by young
people.
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Interview with UDC Professors
Daryao S. Khatri and Anne O.
Hughes:
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Professor Khatri teaches physics
at the University of District of
Columbia; Professor Hughes (now
retired) taught statistics at
UDC.
Two years ago when professor
Khatri found so many of his DC
public school high school
graduates were completely
unprepared for college, he and
Professor Hughes decided they
needed to get involved in
“re-teaching" these students.
The public school students
coming to UDC had no competent
skills or training in college
level physics, organic chemistry
or even elementary mathematics.
Alarmed by these findings,
Professor Khatri and his
colleagues formulated a rigorous
teaching course in math, physics
and other sciences. This course
has been so successful that
Professor Khatri and his
colleagues hope to get DC public
school teachers into the UDC
summer classrooms next year, and
train them on how to hold
attention of their inner-city
students -- while teaching them
physics, organic chemistry and
math.
Professors Khatri and Hughes
have written two interesting
books:
(1) American Education apartheid
- Again? and (2) Color-Blind
Teaching: Excellence for Diverse
Classrooms.
If any one needs to reach
Professor Khatri, his email
address is:
kdkhatri@udc.edu; and
phone number is: 703-493-8213.
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