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Hotmail prodigy is a sizzling millionaire
Even allowing for the storied chronicles of immigrant successes, which fecund Silicon Valley throws up by the score, Sabeer Bhatia's tale is an improbable one. The ultimate geek fantasy. In a matter of just 18 months, the 29-year-old Indian immigrant parlayed $2000 and an idea into Hotmail, a million-dollar corporation offering free E-mail services anywhere in the world.
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Down by the waterfront
Banganga -- where once there were over a hundred soaring spires outlined against the skies is now crowded out by high-rise warrens, clustered around the 2,500-year-old water tank. Banganga's tank itself is a dark shallow green, the socio-cultural hub of this little temple town. There could hardly be any other piece of real estate in Mumbai so soaked with myth and history.
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Child's play
Keeping 60 kids in kilter is a difficult task in itself, so directing them in two plays -- which are being staged professionally -- is no easy task. But then Poonam Sareen's approach is entirely different too. The founder of SPEED (Speech and Personality Evolution through Educational Drama), she believes in harnessing human potential through performing arts.
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Now, beaches are for students' exams
Beaches are for family picnics, moonlight barbecues, sunbathing...and exams. In a unique educational experiment, students of the Mahatma Gandhi Mission Management Institute, Nerul, took their semester examinations in December on Kalwa beach, about 120 kms off Mumbai mixing serious studying with loads of fun.
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