Year of India News Clips

  • "HIV-positive children who are registered for anti-retroviral therapy at Sion Hospital will get a special diet from June." – report in the Hindustan Times on the work of AIDS Relief International, a Brown student social initiative. (4/1/10)
  • "We want our students to know more about India and we want Indian students to know more about us." – University President Ruth Simmons, interviewed in The Hindu during a delegation to India. (3/30/10)
  • "The importance of India today on the world stage requires all of us in university life to be attentive to what's happening here and to have the advantage of partnerships with higher education in India." – University President Ruth Simmons, interviewed in livemint.com during a delegation to India. (3/30/10)
  • "We are eager to talk to people in India about the various roles they see for us." – Brown Vice President for International Matthew Gutmann, in a Wall Street Journal article reporting on the University's delegation to India in March. (3/26/10)
  • “Ugly or dangerous ideas do not go away when you ban them.” – Salman Rushdie in a Providence Journal article on his speech at Brown. (2/17/10)
  • “Brown University in the US is hosting an exhibition featuring the early works of India's most famous painter M F Husain, as part of the Ivy League school's Year of India initiative.” – The Times of India reports on the exhibition of Husain's early masterpieces at Brown. (2/6/10)
  • "Rana Dasgupta's India is a land of grueling poverty still, in a culture transfixed by glittering wealth." – introduction to Year of India podcast on Huffington Post.
  • “Achinakom villagers in Vechoor grama panchayat, who were resigned to a forced dependence on contaminated water consumption on account of the general degradation of the Kuttanad eco-system, got a 1.2-lakh litre sub-surface rainwater harvesting tank designed and constructed by the School of Environmental Sciences in association with Brown University.” – The Hindu reports on Rainwater for Humanity, a collaboration between students at Brown and Mahatma Gandhi University. (12/6/09)
  • “In what could be a new way to measure economic growth, economists at the Brown University in the US have come up with a framework for estimating a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) by using satellite images of the area’s nighttime lights.” – The Economic Times of India reports on the work of Brown economists J. Vernon Henderson, Adam Storeygard, and David N. Weil. (12/2/09)
  • "The adivasis are the group least incorporated into India's political economy." – Brown Professor of Political Science Ashutosh Varshney in the New York Times on the Maoist movement in India and the "unfinished quests of Indian democracy." (11/1/09)
  • "The moon has distinct signatures of water." – Carle Pieters, Brown professor of geological sciences and lead investigator of the NASA Moon Mineralogy Mapper aboard the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1, in the Times of India. (9/24/09)
  • “It’s a Year of India, but the hope is that when we bring together people who are interested, the interest will bring together other projects over time. Much of the energy that goes into it this year will be an investment into future collaboration." – Dean of Faculty Rajiv Vohra in the Brown Daily Herald. (9/11/09)