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NEWS SCAPE
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Please click here for the PDF File  Aashish Kumar, a professor who teaches video and documentary production at Hofstra University in New York, shares his skills and experience with K. Vinesh, Vishal Diwan and Arun John of the University of Hyderabad. Kumar (second from right) was a Fulbright visiting lecturer at the university from August 2008 to January 2009. His students in an M.A. course completed an 11-minute advocacy video for a local NGO working in heritage conservation. http://www.usief.org.in/index.aspx American filmmaker Megan Mylan's Academy Award in February for best short documentary for Smile Pinki, about a 5-year-old Uttar Pradesh girl born with a cleft lip, focused attention on the fact that more than 4 million children with this disfigurement can be cured in a 45-minute surgery for only $250. The cost is covered by the American charity Smile Train, working through local surgeons such as Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh (left). He operated on Pinki Kumari Sonkar, of Rampur Dhavaia village, at the D.S. Memorial Hospital in Varanasi. He joined her at the Oscars in Los Angeles, along with her father, Rajender Sonkar, and Mylan. No celebrity had a prettier smile than Pinki. http://www.smiletrain.org/site/PageServer G. Nitish, 9, and K. Keerthana, 7, were among the winners in February of the Celebrate Life art contest for school children and college students, conducted by the U.S. Consulate General in Chennai and the Madras Christian Council of Social Service, which works to prevent the HIV/AIDS disease. Keerthana, whose mother, T.R. Adiseshu, is at left, points to her winning artwork. http://mccss.org/ Indian American Anoop Desai, 21, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, made it to the top 10 finalists of American Idol, the No. 1 U.S. TV show. With snazzy presentation and sweet singing, Desai, the son of Indian immigrants from Gujarat, has earned a place on the Idol Tour across America this summer. http://www.americanidol.com Bijoy Thangaraj, 23, a software engineer at Honeywell Technology Solutions in Bangalore, is one of four winners, out of 8,400 entries, in a U.S. Department of State online video contest. His three-minute video, My Culture + Your Culture = World of Wonder, earned him a two-week trip to the United States and Adobe multimedia software. The video can be viewed at exchanges.state.gov or connect.state.gov |
