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I can understand that Dr. Jiten Roy is overwhelmed with Taslima's new write up that's why he proposed Taslima's name for the Noble Prize. I do agree with his few points but strongly disagree with the line: "Women are oppressed and discriminated in every society, especially in a non-Western society." That is not true. If anyone goes through the internet, discuss with friends living in western countries, read their newspaper then one can find that women are more oppressed in western countries than ours. However, we need to discuss to solve any problems. Listening to others is also important. You can not make a society without male! Why do not we join forces to make the world more important for our future generation. Regards to all.
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| FERTILITY TOURISM : MADE IN INDIA | | | | | Reema Moudgil | | | | | India, considered by the West to be a bit of an odd conglomeration of outsourced spirituality and IT talent, now has another face. That of a sprawling womb store from where fertility can be outsourced cheaply, safely and legally! Sunday Herald looks at this new Made in India tag. | | | The world we live in today runs on the energy of one word, 'Yes.' Yes to instant gratification bubbling like coffee up to the rim of life. Yes to space tourism. Yes to cloning of cherished pets. Yes to pleasure in all its forms and fulfilment at every level. Yes to borrowed eggs, frozen sperm to hired wombs, to children nature had denied to some of us.
India till now considered by the West to be a bit of an odd conglomeration of outsourced spirituality and IT talent, timeless tourist spots like slums and palaces, oceans and deserts now has another face. That of a large, sprawling womb store from where fertility can be outsourced cheaply, safely and legally. A surrogacy process would cost over $50,000 or thereabouts in the US while it amounts to only around $ 10,000 in India. Shopping for a cost-effective baby here is like cocking a snook at fate, pumping the air and saying aloud 'Yes.' With the constant inflow of womb shoppers, surrogacy, legal in India since 2002, has become highly commercial and profitable.
Surrogate motherhood is a lucrative idea for many desperate for money. Young women in urban and rural areas and the volumes of surrogate mothers, egg donors (some of whom may even be young college girls looking to buy something expensive in lieu of an egg or two harvested from their bodies) is increasing in response to the demand for both.
Things go well most of the times except ofcourse when unseen complications arise as in the case of Dr Ikufumi Yamada, 45, a Tokyo surgeon who went through a divorce with wife Yuki, 41, a month before their surrogate baby Manji was born in India. The fate of the baby consequently hung in balance since Indian law does not allow the adoption of a girl by a single father.
Is this case indicative of some of the reasons why the idea of surrogacy should be reevaluated? Would it not be existentially confusing for children like Manji to not have a clear idea of who they are and who they belong to?
Should we not worry that the surrogacy industry in India is largely unregulated? And do these qualms mean anything at all in a country where 40 per cent of more than a billion people live under the poverty line and bring children into a dangerous, deprived, unstable world of lacks? While worrying about what will happen to babies like Manji, do we spare even a thought to the children whose numbers swell everyday on our streets? Atleast surrogate babies are needed by someone in some part of the world. What about the children naturally born to parents who bring them into the world without having the means to protect and nourish them?
Let us also remember that sex-based foeticide continues to thrive unchecked in some parts of our country, even affecting the ratio between the sexes. So really, how low can fertility tourism be rated on a moral scale?
Yes, it is strange that children are now commodities and wombs are on sale. It is stranger still that "superovulated" young woman are advertised on virtual billboards "exclusively" for cash rich, hungry for parenthood people. Were not atleast some aspects of life, supposed to be beyond human manipulation?
But everything can be tweaked for human convenience today, even laws of nature. So a single woman in her late 30s can get a few cheap embryos (that may or may not have anything to do with her genetically. The egg and sperm may belong to donors who may not even know each other) planted in her womb in an Indian clinic. The seed of life can be bought online these days from sperm banks from a distant part of the world and a prospective mother can pick the donor she wants depending on (among other things) whether he is a tall sportsperson or a mid-sized architect.
The 'contents' can then be shipped in heat proof containers to an Indian clinic where fresh eggs bought from another donor can be fertilised with the long-travelling sperm. The baby who emerges from this 'union' may have an Australian father she will never see, and an Indian, biological mother she will never know either. She will only know the mother who gives birth to her.
Another couple may rent a womb for their genetic child. Or buy embroys from another donor couple. How this conundrum is resolved by the people involved in the situation is a conundrum too. More than any moral and ethical questions, surrogacy has far reaching human implications on relationships between a surrogate womb and the child in it and the 'parents' and the baby they have prayed and paid for. How these relationships pan out depends solely on the people in it.
But the business thrives on in India because unlike in developed countries, here women donors are aplenty, the bills do not break the bank and the number of embroys a doctor can plant in a woman's womb is not strictly monitored unlike say in the UK. And all this can be paid for, online with your credit card. The baby shoppers love India also because the doctors here, among their other skills, can converse with them in English and soothe their fears and clear their doubts.
Most of the time "100 per cent success rate" is guaranteed even if the mother way beyond child bearing age is looking for an In Vitro Fertilisation process to get pregnant. There is not a single ethics committee or law to monitor this industry or to license clinics, though attempts are being made by the government to accredit fertility centres and make them subject to basic requirements and precautions. Still, so far, it is an open market sans red tape where everyone and anyone is welcome. No one is yet thinking about how assisted reproduction affects the child at the centre of it.
Or what will happen if she grows up and demands to know more about the anonymous donors who created her. No one knows either just who the donors of wombs and eggs are in India. Are they victims of their poverty or willing and well-paid participants in the creation of life? Are they short changed by the doctors swimming the dollar gravy or paid adequately? Are they counselled about the emotional and physical cost of their decision? Do they have rights, if any? No one is answering these questions because it is enough that dollars are flowing in, life is being stirred in sterlised jars and gurgling, inexpensive babies are being shipped out.
SHOPPING FOR GENES
At 43, Sanuthi Liyanage is a happy and content woman. She has everything a woman would ever aspire for — a loving husband, a caring family, riches, and, above all, a baby she can call her own. Well! If this sounds like a fairy tale to you, then you should listen to Sanuthi.
"I was a simple Sri Lankan woman who always craved for a baby. But when repeated attempts to have one failed, I was devastated. After 12 years of marriage, I had almost embraced the reality of my 41 years of living, that of being childless. I loved life and God. But felt let down by both," she writes.
Till one such day, when her family doctor advised the Liyanage couple to fly down to India to realise their dreams of having a child. The choice was between Chennai and Bangalore. The Liyanage couple chose Bangalore.
"This one suggestion meant so much to me. Very soon, everything fell in place and I am now a committed parent of one beautiful and loving daughter. I strive to stay in the spirit of gratitude for I realise this is no small gift from both life and God," she adds.
The Liyanage couple are one of the many fertility tourists who frequent India to avail of the affordable fertility services offered here. Though Delhi and Mumbai are high on the priority list of fertility tourists, our very own Bangalore is in no way lagging behind.
According to Dr Kamini Rao, a renowned fertility specialist and medical director, Bangalore Assisted Conception Centre, Bangalore, mostly draws fertility tourists from countries like Mauritius, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives and the Arab countries. "The fertility tourist traffic is definitely on the rise in Bangalore. Affordable fertility services and legal comfort levels prevalent in the City prove to be attractive to foreign nationals," says Dr Kamini Rao.
In her clinic alone, every month, about five-seven foreign nationals seek the expert's help in conceiving. "Though most such couples are NRIs, there are also couples of mixed races where either the husband or the wife is an Indian," she says.
However, there are also couples like the Liyanages who come to Bangalore, "Not because of the cost factor, but because of the reputation it enjoys as far as fertility clinics are concerned."
"The success rate in Bangalore is very high," says Sanuthi in an e-mail interview.
The change in approach also matters most, says Dr Rajalaxmi of Rajalaxmi Infertility Service, who emphasises on the natural method of conception. Most fertility tourists who frequent her clinic are from the Maldives, mostly those who have failed one or two IVF cycles back home and are seeking help closer home.
"Positive approach to pregnancy, counselling, reiki and pranayama — my treatment is all this and more, proving to be a big draw among Maldivian nationals," she says, adding that word-of-mouth publicity is what she relies on.
"Though increasing worldwide interconnectedness is a major factor in promoting fertility tourism in the State, it is the cost factor that brings most of them to Bangalore. And, of course, the easy availability of experts in the field," says Dr Kamini Rao.
"The fact that there is literally no waiting time and one is taken care of by highly qualified medical personnel who are fluent in English are added advantages. Also, many of the doctors in Bangalore are educated abroad and have practiced in many western countries, adding to the long list of advantages," writes Sanuthi, justifying her choice of Bangalore. "If some regulations are in place, the traffic of fertility tourists in Bangalore and subsequently in India can more than double in the next five-10 years," adds Dr Kamini Rao.
A fact driven home as one enters the double storey-clinic-cum-chamber in a posh locality in New Delhi where anxious faces of patients from across the world stare at you. Dr Anoop Gupta, who is an IVF specialist since 1994, does around 800 IVF cases a year. He gets around 15 cases on an average in a month from couples coming from other countries. About 50 per cent of them are from the US and the remaining half from the UK, Middle East, Nigeria, Spain and Russia.
Ask him why do these couples come to India for IVF and pat comes the reply: expertise and cost.True, many of his patients from the US and the UK are NRIs and they prefer Indian doctors. But there are foreign couples, who prefer Indian doctors as, in the words of Dr Gupta, they have an "emotional bond with their patients."
"Infrastructure in Indian IVF clinics is 110 per cent better than the centres abroad and treatment in India is affordable too," Dr Gupta says. While in the US, an IVF would cost $20,000 per patient, in India it is $2,500 or between Rs 1.25-1.50 lakh. "If one gets same treatment at such a cheaper cost, why won't they come to India," asks Dr Gupta. Apart from the cost factor, there are certain restrictions in other countries like sperm or egg donation is banned in Muslim countries.
Dr Gupta does not see any thing unethical in surrogacy as long as the financial and medical concerns of the surrogate mothers are taken care of. "Again cost factor is there. It might take $100,000 to go for surrogacy in the US, but in India it is only about Rs 3-3.5 lakhs," he says.
Over the years, Mumbai and Pune have also emerged as top destinations for IVF treatment for foreigners. Among the casual international tourists taking strolls in South Mumbai, there is every chance at least some of them might have come here for infertility treatment. Take the example of Maria Halls (name changed), who is on her second trip from London to get pregnant. The 39-year old Maria says the IVF treatment in UK is much more expensive, and the doctors are not willing to provide treatment if they find even a slight problem, for fear of suing.
She has checked into the famous Malpani Clinic of Colaba, whose website lists a number of patients and their testimonials about treatment received in the hospital. Dr Aniruddha Malpani attributes the growing tribe of fertility tourists to the Internet.
There are around 35 infertility clinics in Mumbai, which are more than any other city in India. The famous Jaslok Hospital has treated women patients from 40 countries in the past 10 years. While the quality of the treatment and economics are chief reasons, Indian doctors are making it a point to give quick response to email queries from their prospective patients abroad.
Normally, a dozen emails are exchanged between a doctor and a prospective patient before she travels to Mumbai, said a doctor attached to Jaslok Hospital.
In the West, doctors will never take a patient who is too old or has a complicated medical history. The opposite is true in India, says Dr Hrishikesh Pai of Lilavati hospital, who gets an average dozen patients from abroad every month. His wife Dr Rishma Dhillon Pai, a consultant gynaecologist at Jaslok and Lilavati hospitals, has the distinction of having assisted a 60-year-old woman (one of the oldest patients in India) to deliver. Dr Rishma is the director of 'Everywoman Cliniqs' at Bandra and Kemps Corner and is also the director of the Pearl Centre Hospital at Dadar, which is one of the first and largest abortion and family planning centres in Mumbai.
Earlier this year, twin girls conceived by IVF in India were born in the Midlands to a British Indian couple with a combined age of 131. Their mother, thought to be 59, is one of the oldest women in Britain to give birth. Renowned gynaecologist Dr Sunita Tandulwadkar of Ruby Hall in Pune told Sunday Herald that the reasons behind the booming fertility tourism are simple: economica, international standards and very less waiting period. Age plays a very important role and more the waiting period, there are less chances of getting pregnant.
According to Alexandra (name changed), a patient from UK, "I came to Pune to get away from conditions back in Britain, particularly legal maze and ethical issues." She is impressed by the fact that India was the second country in the world after the UK to produce a 'test tube baby', just 67 days after the first British test tube baby in 1978.
Chethana Dinesh in Bangalore, Shruba Mukherjee in
New Delhi and Parag Rabade in Mumbai
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Vladimir Putin was a KGB spy, indoctrinated and brainwashed.
He essentially a soul from the Soviet era who is trying hard to bring back that
old military glory back to the Russian
Federation. He is smart, calculated and
ruthless. In the new circumstances Russia
under the leadership of Putin is enjoying some unusual advantages in the world
stage. I would say these advantages are created by the United
States under President Bush. The wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan
have distracted the United States
from some very important issues which were brewing up in Europe.
Russian took advantage from this distraction and consolidated its position. The
relation between Europe and the United
States also underwent some realistic and
radical changes. The post cold war Europe is not afraid
of any aggression from the East anymore. They have forged a powerful political
and economic union and needs more energy to run their economic power houses
which they don't have and the United States
is in no position to supply them with energy which Russia
can. This dire economic reality was understood by the Russians.
This aggression on tiny Georgia
by Russia is
just a tip of the iceberg. Europe's very timid response
which is on the verge of appeasement is a glaring example how they care about
their relations with their big eastern neighbour, Russia.
It's interesting to note that how the weakest of Europe,
such as Estonia,
Latvia, and Ukraine
came to show solidarity with Georgia
when the German chancellor used the word 'Slightly" to describe the degree of Russia's
aggression in Georgia.
I don't think those days are there anymore when Britain
declared war against Germany
when Hitler destroyed the state of Czechoslovakia
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Georgia learns a brutal lesson by Premen Addy 17 Aug 08 (http://dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=EDITS&file_name=edit3%2Etxt&counter_img=3)
The anniversary of Indian independence was to have been the event of my week, evoking remembrance of things past, reflections on time present, with perhaps a cursory glance at mysterious runic shapes for clues to the future. That, alas, was a not to be. Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvilli decided to strut his hour upon the stage, little realising that the exercise would release bolts of lightning accompanied by claps of thunder, which have begun to reverberate across the globe. An adventurer by instinct, a huckster in search of a role, Mr Saakashvilli was primed and programmed by his American mentors and put through his paces at the Harvard University Law School with a State Department scholarship. He returned to his native Georgia, with an American spouse in tow, and ignited the 'Rose Revolution' whose force lifted him to the seat of power.
Not cut from the cloth of Brutus or Mark Antony, Mr Saakashvilli is invariably his inimitable self, much given to incontinent perorations on his democratic and human rights credentials and Russia's sins of commission and omission down the ages. He is a case study of creatures great and small trapped in a great game in which they are at best hapless pawns.
The mainstream and creationist American view of America is not far removed from Catholicism's immaculate conception. The systematic extermination of the Indian peoples of the North American plain, the long years of Black slavery, the use of atom bombs on Japan when the country's rulers were suing for peace, the massacre of the Vietnamese and Indo-Chinese peoples through carpet bombing and defoliation and the deceitful war on Iraq (without the discovery of the weapons of mass destruction, which were its alleged justification) are conspicuously absent from mainstream American political discourse. Its commanding heights are dominated increasingly by dipsomaniac disquisition on the threat to world order from the Professor Moriarty of modern crime, Mr Vladimir Putin himself.
America is a great country with a multitude of wonderful accomplishments but its self-serving theology of unblemished virtue and rectitude is in danger of taking all humanity over the abyss. The United States is deep in the constructing of empire: American exceptionalism through Calvinistic grace makes the exercise credible in many American eyes. The dissolution of the Soviet Union constituted an opportunity for a divinely ordained enterprise; the vast expanses of Eurasia and its natural wealth to be dominated and exploited by American decree.
Nato's noose is drawn ever tighter round the Russian neck. American military and missile bases are already ensconced in Romania and Bulgaria -- two states once in harness with Adolf Hitler's Third Reich and the invading Nazi legions into the USSR -- in a bid to strangle the possible emergence of a rival centre of power in the Black Sea. Mr Saakashvilli, a midget in a grand design, was instrument in the baiting of the Russian bear. His troops and tanks, guns blazing, entered the rebellious Georgian enclave of South Ossetia to subdue its recalcitrant Russian-speaking population. He and his Anglo-American handlers calculated wrongly that a quiescent Kremlin, absorbed by the glittering opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympiad, would take the blow in humiliated silence.
It was delusional fantasy. The Georgian President has received a salutary and brutal lesson, and the US and Europe have been put on notice that Russia's era of passive accommodation is now closed. The Sunday Telegraph -- the haw-haw voice of Toryism -- produced an inebriating leader threatening Russia with combat based on the West's superior economy and military technology. Nazi Germany was similarly convinced of a triumph that never was, as was Napoleon a century earlier.
The US-led coalition of the willing hasn't covered itself in glory in either Iraq or Afghanistan, with Britain engaged in an urgent recruitment drive in Jamaica to replenish the diminishing manpower of its armed forces, particularly its under-strength Army. Nato may not have the stomach for a replay of Stalingrad.
The Independent's Mark Siegal, reporting from the border town of Vladikavkaz, Russia's old Caucasian staging post, tells of young Russians streaming in from all parts of this huge nation to volunteer for action. Muscular 30-year-old Nikolai from Stavropol, the birthplace of Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, had "left his job, jumped into the car and driven 600 miles through the night to sign up to defend the Russian cause". Another young compatriot barked, "This war is absolutely a war between Russia and America. The biggest mistake was in underestimating us. Now you'll see what happens."
A pity that American neocons are not much given to reading, let alone understanding, history. Having taken repeated provocations from Imperial Japan's forces along the Mongolian-Manchurian border in the summer of 1939, Marshal Zhukov was despatched to the frontier to sort out the problem -- which he did to such telling effect that Tokyo's military turned southwards and attacked the European colonial presence in South-East Asia rather than try conclusions again with the Red Army. Marshal Zhukov, the conqueror of Berlin, had saved his country the hazards of a possible two-front war in the aftermath of the Nazi assault. Appropriate force projection in pursuance of a political goal was thus vindicated. Thirty years later, in 1969, along their common frontier on the giant Amur river, the Soviet response to an unprovoked Chinese assault, which resulted in 61 Russian dead, left China's territory looking like a moonscape.
Mr Gorbachev, poor man, had wound up the Cold War (much to his credit) without precautionary insurance against Western bad faith. Western leaders made false promises on Nato non-expansion eastwards. Realpolitik, not pie-in-the-sky bromides on peace and brotherhood, is still the surest guarantor of peace and security.
A perusal of Barbara Crossette's report in the New York Times, at the commencement of the Pakistan-incubated Islamist insurgency in Kashmir in January 1990, will reveal the prognostication of an unnamed Islamabad-based Western diplomat, that the world was about to witness a permanent shift in the Sub-continental balance of power. The prediction mercifully was as still-born as the Nixon Administration's hope of similar geopolitical change in the wake of its support for the Pakistani military dictatorship in its war with India in December 1971.
India's public discourse on foreign and strategic policy is prone to mix political metaphors: The organising principles of a yogic ashram have no place in the fundamentals of statecraft. Force in the defence of dharma, as Krishna expostulated to Arjuna, is morally justified. It was so more than two millennia ago; it is as true today.
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I remember a discussion a long time ago with K A Francis, a Tamil
atheist writer and author of "Bibliya Ayyangal" a book that was
translated into English and published as "The Bible - A Great Farce"
where he described the institution of the convent in the Catholic,
Buddhist and Jain faiths as "reverse prostitution." It was his
opinion (and one which I completely share) that offering commercial
and other inducements to avoid having sex was as derogatory a social
phenomenon as offering these to pay for sex. The tragedy in India is
that most converts to Catholicism and other branches of Christianity
are the desperately poor lower castes. Conversion might get them some
education, it does not, however, take away any of the other menaces
like dowry from their day to day lives. Many poor families,
therefore, send their girls into convents to avoid having to pay for
their wedding expenses. Results like what this Times of India article
speak of, arise out of this process of nun-running. Mehul Kamdar http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Nun_commits_suicide_father_a
lleges_sexual_abuse/articleshow/3357981.cms Nun commits suicide, father alleges sexual abuse
12 Aug 2008, 2141 hrs IST, Ananthakrishnan G,TNN
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Even as controversy over the death of Sister
Abhaya refuses to ebb, the death of a second nun in mysterious
circumstances has pushed the Church in Kerala into a spot. The nun's
father on Tuesday alleged that she was sexually abused in the convent
where she was living. Body of 22-year-old nun, Anupa Mary, was found hanging from the
ceiling of the St Mary's convent in Kollam district on Monday. A
member of the Vimala Hrudaya Franciscan Congregation, Mary had joined
the convent only three months back. Police said a suicide note
recovered from the body mentioned her sufferings at the convent and
her differences with the mother superior. The twist in the tale came on Tuesday with her father Pappachan
accusing a senior nun in the convent of sexually abusing Mary. He
claimed that the nun had made several advances towards Mary and when
they were turned down, she forced Mary to work more at the convent. Pappachan, a cook in the Bishop's house in Kollam, said when Mary had
come home for leave some days back, she had told her mother that she
could not take it any more. She had, however, not said anything to
him as she feared being chucked out of the convent, he added.
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WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/49418 It's a thought provoking article. Male-dominated hypocritical society is trying to shut her up. Women are oppressed and discriminated in every society, especially in a non-Western society. She deserves our salute. She should get Nobel Prize for her just fight for equality. Unfortunately, male-dominated world may ignore her tremendous contribution. She has my full respect for sacrificing so much for this fight. I just want to tell her to keep fighting....
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From: baba@baba1.com
To: baba@baba1.com
Subject: Mela / Nazrul Joyonti / Habib Concert
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:13:07 -0400
Dear Bay Area Bangladeshi Community,
Here are the three upcoming BABA programs in the Bay Area that you can add to your
calendars. Details are listed below.
1. BABA Mela - August 23, 2008, Saturday afternoon, - Hellyer Park, San Jose (only 1 week away!) 2. Nazrul Joyonti Ganer Ashor feat. Rebecca Sultana (famous Nazrul singer from Bangladesh) August 29, 2008, Friday Evening at 8 PM: Elan Apt. Clubhouse , (only 2 weeks away! buy your tickets now, details below) 3. Habib Concert (Live with Band)/Eid Party October 19, 2008, Sunday afternoon: (2 months away) ============================== ============
BABA Mela
======================================================
August 23, 2008, Saturday
Consulate Service (Passport and Visa Service)
==================================================
Date: August 23, 2008, Saturday
Time: 11 AM to 6 PM.
Location: The Hellyer County Park. 985 Hellyer Ave. San Jose, CA 95111
Directions: Take 101 South towards South San Jose, then take the Hellyer Avenue exit, and make a right turn. Go straight into the gate of the park. There will be a $6 parking fee. After the gate, there will be BABA Mela signs which will guide you left into the Velodrome location.
Information: The picnic spot is Velodrome. This is a big area for our Mela, easily accommodating several hundred people, with lots of shady areas and parking spots.
General Admission: $5 (free for members). Ages 12 and under are free!
MELA PROGRAM:
---------------------------------------
This is an event for the whole family! 1) Wear your best costumes and win fatafati prizes! for the Jemon Khushi Temon Shajo (Bangladeshi cultural costume contest) with other games as well for the kids, youths and adults. Music and Entertainment provided. 2) Booths and Stalls with delicious food (biryani, khichuri, jhal muri, pizza, mango lassi, etc), clothing, mehndi, face painting, and other attractions. 3) For the kids, a 5-in-1 Astrojump, including 2 slides, obstacle course, jumping house, and basketball hoop and other recreations (all kids under 12 are free at the Mela) 4) Meeting friends, socializing, networking, and having a good time. 5) Consulate Service with passport and Visa services (Please bring Money order for fee). Last day to reserve a booth is this Wednesday, August 20. Price is $50 for individuals, and $100 for businesses/organization. Canopy/Tent covering is $25 extra. Contact: Kamal at 408-858-9212, kamalpro64@gmail.com
===========
Nazrul Joyonti Ganer Ashor (August 29, 2008, Friday evening):
Venue: Elan Apt Clubhouse 345 Village Center Drive, San Jose, CA Directions: Take Montague Expy exit from 101 or 880
From 101, turn left onto River Oaks Dr.
From 880, turn right onto River Oaks Dr.
Take left into Village Center Dr.
The Clubhouse is on the left, just after the shallow pool. Free parking is available on the street. Food: Snacks and tea will be available.
Click here to become a BABA member and lock in the savings! Rebeka Sultana An Evening of Melody Flier 2008.jpg (JPEG Image, 720x960 pixels)
===========Habib Concert (Live with Band) by BABA on October 19, 2008, Sunday.
Please keep the day open, and stay tuned for more information. Habib is coming on tour to the USA in October and will perform in major cities including New York City (NY), Miami (FL), Dallas and Austin (TX), and finally both LA and the Bay Area in our very own California! Still being one of the top singers and composers in Bangladesh, his eastern and western blend of composition appeals to a wide generation of listeners. Perfect for the whole family! This tour marks the first time Habib will perform Live in Concert with his Full Band in the USA. The date is October 19th! Stay tuned for venue details.
Click here to become a BABA member for a savings of over $100! If you would like to be a sponsor or donor to BABA, a non-profit organization, then let us know. The grand sponsor of the Habib concert will get their ad and an honorary mention on NTV plus a few other recognitions. Contact: Kamal Khan, 408-858-9212, kamalpro64@gmail.com================== Respectfully, Kamal Khan BABA President Kamalpro64@gmail.com, 408-858-9212 On behalf of the BABA Team ============================================== __._,_.___
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From: baba@baba1.com
To: baba@baba1.com
Subject: Mela / Nazrul Joyonti / Habib Concert
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:13:07 -0400
Dear Bay Area Bangladeshi Community,
Here are the three upcoming BABA programs in the Bay Area that you can add to your
calendars. Details are listed below.
1. BABA Mela - August 23, 2008, Saturday afternoon, - Hellyer Park, San Jose (only 1 week away!) 2. Nazrul Joyonti Ganer Ashor feat. Rebecca Sultana (famous Nazrul singer from Bangladesh) August 29, 2008, Friday Evening at 8 PM: Elan Apt. Clubhouse , (only 2 weeks away! buy your tickets now, details below) 3. Habib Concert (Live with Band)/Eid Party October 19, 2008, Sunday afternoon: (2 months away) ============================== ============
BABA Mela
======================================================
August 23, 2008, Saturday
Consulate Service (Passport and Visa Service)
==================================================
Date: August 23, 2008, Saturday
Time: 11 AM to 6 PM.
Location: The Hellyer County Park. 985 Hellyer Ave. San Jose, CA 95111
Directions: Take 101 South towards South San Jose, then take the Hellyer Avenue exit, and make a right turn. Go straight into the gate of the park. There will be a $6 parking fee. After the gate, there will be BABA Mela signs which will guide you left into the Velodrome location.
Information: The picnic spot is Velodrome. This is a big area for our Mela, easily accommodating several hundred people, with lots of shady areas and parking spots.
General Admission: $5 (free for members). Ages 12 and under are free!
MELA PROGRAM:
---------------------------------------
This is an event for the whole family! 1) Wear your best costumes and win fatafati prizes! for the Jemon Khushi Temon Shajo (Bangladeshi cultural costume contest) with other games as well for the kids, youths and adults. Music and Entertainment provided. 2) Booths and Stalls with delicious food (biryani, khichuri, jhal muri, pizza, mango lassi, etc), clothing, mehndi, face painting, and other attractions. 3) For the kids, a 5-in-1 Astrojump, including 2 slides, obstacle course, jumping house, and basketball hoop and other recreations (all kids under 12 are free at the Mela) 4) Meeting friends, socializing, networking, and having a good time. 5) Consulate Service with passport and Visa services (Please bring Money order for fee). Last day to reserve a booth is this Wednesday, August 20. Price is $50 for individuals, and $100 for businesses/organization. Canopy/Tent covering is $25 extra. Contact: Kamal at 408-858-9212, kamalpro64@gmail.com
===========
Nazrul Joyonti Ganer Ashor (August 29, 2008, Friday evening):
Venue: Elan Apt Clubhouse 345 Village Center Drive, San Jose, CA Directions: Take Montague Expy exit from 101 or 880
From 101, turn left onto River Oaks Dr.
From 880, turn right onto River Oaks Dr.
Take left into Village Center Dr.
The Clubhouse is on the left, just after the shallow pool. Free parking is available on the street. Food: Snacks and tea will be available.
Click here to become a BABA member and lock in the savings! Rebeka Sultana An Evening of Melody Flier 2008.jpg (JPEG Image, 720x960 pixels)
===========Habib Concert (Live with Band) by BABA on October 19, 2008, Sunday.
Please keep the day open, and stay tuned for more information. Habib is coming on tour to the USA in October and will perform in major cities including New York City (NY), Miami (FL), Dallas and Austin (TX), and finally both LA and the Bay Area in our very own California! Still being one of the top singers and composers in Bangladesh, his eastern and western blend of composition appeals to a wide generation of listeners. Perfect for the whole family! This tour marks the first time Habib will perform Live in Concert with his Full Band in the USA. The date is October 19th! Stay tuned for venue details.
Click here to become a BABA member for a savings of over $100! If you would like to be a sponsor or donor to BABA, a non-profit organization, then let us know. The grand sponsor of the Habib concert will get their ad and an honorary mention on NTV plus a few other recognitions. Contact: Kamal Khan, 408-858-9212, kamalpro64@gmail.com================== Respectfully, Kamal Khan BABA President Kamalpro64@gmail.com, 408-858-9212 On behalf of the BABA Team ============================================== __._,_.___
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/bangladesh-pet.php
Reuters had an interesting piece recently on Bangladesh's thriving
Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) recycling industry. The South Asian
country exported more than 20,000 tons of PET flakes, the shredded
version of plastic bottles, last year sorted from the 3,000 factories
across the country dedicated to recycling. The industry generated
about $10 million in 2007 and has grown annually at a rate of 20
percent.
Once the PET bottles have been sorted and crushed, the flakes are
exported to China, Korea, Vietnam and Thailand, according to Sarwar
Wadud Chowdhury, the chairman of Bangladesh PET Flakes Manufacturers
and Exporters Association. Chowdhury says the importing countries use
the flakes to make Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF), which are used in
spinning mills. PSF is a base material for clothing, pillows, carpets
and polyester sheets. Around the world, about 1.5 million tons of PET are collected per
year, the majority of it in Europe. Petcore, the European non-profit
organization that champions PET recycling, predicts that in Europe
alone, collection will exceed one million ton by 2010. In Bangladesh,
the sector is also creating much needed jobs for thousands of poor
children and women who survive by collecting at least 100 tons of PET
bottles per day. :: Via Reuters
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