The annual Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture closed with an evening banquet featuring literature, Indian culture and impromptu song Friday evening on the University of Oklahoma campus. Honoring Indian-Canadian novelist Rohinton Mistry, the banquet finale was the presentation of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, a $50,000 prize awarded by an international jury and funded by the University
Read moreNOWRUZ PROJECT OVERVIEW In 2009 PAAIA helped draft and build bipartisan support for the Nowruz Resolution, which passed both chambers of Congress in March 2010. Building on that theme, PAAIA has developed a set of resources aimed at elementary school children. Nowruz is a happy and joyous celebration in our heritage. PAAIA urges Iranian American parents to reach out to elementary schools and ascertain
Read moreSupport the Introduction of Legislation Acknowledging Nowruz and the Cyrus Cylinder US Congressmen have urged the Representatives to support their resolution of recognizing and acknowledging Navruz as the Iranian New Year and recognizing the Cyrus Cylinder as the First symbol of Human Rights in the World. Click here for more.. Courtesy : Rustom M Daboo
Read moreZarathushti Offers Prayer at 67th United Nations General Assembly Nina Mistry offers prayers at the United Nations FEZANA Representative February 14, 2013 United Nations, New York Click here for the Video Courtesy : Gave Narielwalla
Read moreJimmy Mistry is the driving force behind Della Tecnica Group, India’s only integrated turnkey solutions provider in architecture, interior design and real estate development. A mechanical engineer and an autodidact, Jimmy’s belief is simple: every project in each of these three verticals must be treated uniquely. The absence of any formal indoctrination allows him to do justice to this belief.
Read moreOn 3rd April 2013, Field Marshal SHFJ ‘Sam’ Manekshaw would have turned 100. He however passed away 5 years before his centenary. But in Wellington, the quaintly beautiful cantonment town in the Niligiris, where the Field Marshal retired to, his memories live on. “Very often Madam (the Field Marshal’s wife, Silloo) would drive Sam to the market in her Maruti 800. Sam
Read moreThe project — http://www.onlinecourses.com/ — is a free and comprehensive resource that is a collection of open college courses that spans videos, audio lectures, and notes given by professors at Harvard, Princeton and MIT. We offer highly relevant courses such as iPhone Application Development from Stanford and Cyber Humor from Oxford. This is something which is a wonderful resource for those looking
Read moreThe humongous changes expected in education and jobs, as we move ahead Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other — using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments
Read moreAttached please find the FEZANA Bulletin for February 2013 http://www.fezana.org/files/drupalfiles/FEZANA_Bulletin_2013_02.pdf Please share it with your association members, family and friends. All the FEZANA Bulletins are available on-line at Bulletin Archives – http://www.fezana.org/BulletinArchives You can subscribe for a free copy of the FEZANA Bulletin by adding your e-mail address at http://www.fezana.org/list/
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