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AMERICAN DOCTOR PAYS INDIA BACK
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Professor Kanti Mardia of Leeds University was recently featured in a rare full-length interview published in the eminent journal Statistical Science, 2002. He has made pioneering contributions in many areas of statistics and is a founder of the internationally renowned Centre for Medical Imaging Research at the university. He has been elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is author of several textbooks in statistics, and is on the board of many scientific journals.
Mira Kamdar was announced as one of ten winners in the 2002 Washington State Book Awards. The annual awards are given to the best books published by Washington writers. Mira Kamdar was chosen for her acclaimed book Motiba's Tattoos. A Granddaughter's Journey from America into her Indian Family's Past.
Gurudev Chitrabhanuji with Devendra and Meeta peer and friends
at the opening of the rehabilitation centre In February 2002, Pujya Shree head trauma, joint replacements, Chitrabhanuji inaugurated a rehabili- | muscular-skeletal disorders and will tation centre in Pune, the first of its kind also provide physical, occupational and in India. The centre was an addition to speech therapies. an existing state-of-the-art hospital and The Centre was inaugurated on 9 research centre, originally set up by the February 2002 by Param Pujya Gurudev legendary Indian singer Lata Chitrabhanuji in the presence of chief Mangeshkar in memory of her father. guest Dr. N. P. Jain, the former Indian
The addition of the rehabilitation Ambassador to the UN, and a distincentre was made possible by the contri- guished gathering of citizens, leading butions of Devendra and Meeta Peer, members of the medical profession, MD. Dr. Peer practises rehabilitation corporate world, hospital organisers and medicine in Philadelphia, USA. This staff. Gurudev Chitrabhanuji stated that rehabilitation centre has been built in a doctor's help in positive thinking and memory of her father Dr. Pralhad M. developing physical skills is very Bhanagay, who practised medicine for important in the recovery of a patient. sixty-five years. Dr. Bhanagay believed Prayers and offerings followed the in the values of physical fitness and inauguration. The event closed with discipline. This centre will cater for blessings by Gurudev Chitrabhanuji. patients of strokes, spinal cord injuries,
Roopa Malde's arangetram performance
Miss Roopa Malde celebrated her arangetram - an important rite of passage in the classical Indian dance tradition of bharat natyam, marking a student's coming-of-age or graduation. The arangetram is an occasion where the bharat natyam student performs solo to an invited audience of family and friends. Roopa's arangetram was held on 1 September 2002 in Hayes, England. Mr. Ramnik Shah, a family
friend who was present, told Jain Spirit about the significance of this special event: "No doubt that she is on the threshold of a promising career, but the wider implication is the spurring effect this would have on other aspiring youngsters. Let me add one final comment from the perspective of our diasporan concerns: Roopa is a thoroughly British child, a product of privileged parents with an East African
background, who is equally at home in both cultures -- not just in musical terms but across the whole spectrum of life. She represents the best of the second generation British Asians. We have every reason to be confident that people like her will consolidate and improve the good name of our community here in the UK."
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Jain Spirit . December 2002 - February 2003
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