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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Mother Teresa International Film Festival - Patna

Mother Teresa International Film Festival is going to take place from 2nd to 5th September 2011 in Patna. The festival has been held at Kolkata, Agartala, Shillong, Udaipur, Chennai and other cities in India on a grand scale.

This three day film festival will showcase special movies based on life and characteristics of Mother Teresa and include various other programs. The main objective of this event is to show people the love and compassion of Mother towards humanity, let people meet and understand the most valued but often missed human traits of love, peace and harmony.

Aim is to spread the global message of Mother through this event. Mother Teresa, the famous and most respected of Catholic nuns also known as “angel of mercy” and “flame in the slum” is a saintly figure to not only the Christian community but to all religious and social groups of the world. She was honoured by Bharat Ratna and Nobel Prize. Mother Teresa was born in 26th August 1910 in Albania and moved to India where she got Indian citizenship. She died on 5th September 1997. AASRA Charitable Trust has received permission from SIGNIS Bengal [license holders and organisers of MTIFF] to conduct the event in Patna.

The event is to be a tribute to the Mother from all members of civil society, Church and State. MTIFF 2011 is being held for the first time in Patna. It has been held in India, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Macau, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Italy. It has travelled from Kolkata to about 50 destinations in India.

The films will be shown to the general public with special screenings for students and the differently abled. An estimated 6,000 viewers are expected to visit the festival venue.

Reach out to AASRA if you would like to be part of this event.

Labels: Mother Teresa International Film Festival, Patna, Patna Film Festival

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Bihar's Super 30 gets International Recognition

Bihar’s Super 30 has added another laurel to its credit. Recently Super 30 was featured by Time magazine in the list of the "Best of Asia 2010", now Newsweek in its latest edition included Super 30 in the li st of four most innovative schools in the world.

Newsweek quotes "For years now the path to the top in India has funneled through the highly competitive entrance exam for the precious few places in the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). For the privileged, the test is tough; for the disadvantaged, it can be crippling. But thanks to an innovative training program created by 37-year-old math whiz Anand Kumar, smart but underprivileged kids in the impoverished state of Bihar are winning acceptance to IITs at an unprecedented rate. Each year Kumar selects 30 deserving students—including Dalits, or the so-called Untouchables—and houses, feeds, and trains them vigorously, all for free.

This was the third consecutive year that all 30 of his students got into the IITs—a fraction of the 10,000 students selected from the 472,000 who applied. Since its inception in 2002, “Super 30,” as the program is called, has sent 212 of its 240 graduates to five-year science and engineering courses at the IITs. Some are already in high-paying jobs in various industries both in India and abroad.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Legacy of Patna

This interesting video has a brief commentary on the legacy of Patna and its rich heritage.

Labels: Bihar, Bihar 2.0, Bihar Heritage, Patna

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Friday, December 07, 2007

Patna view

Labels: Bihar, Bihar Culture, Bihar Heritage, Biscoman Bhawan, Boring Road, Chath Puja, Gandhi Maidan, Patna, Patna University

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Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Radio Mirchi in Patna

Music lovers in Patna finally got to listen to FM Radio Mirchi on Monday. Radio Mirchi is the first private radio station to provide the city with a bouquet of entertainment. The momentous event was inaugurated by the famous Bollywood personality -- Manoj Bajpai -- who played RJ for a day and welcomed people of Patna to the new age music. Telephone lines were abuzz as calls poured in from every nook and corner of Patna.

Radio Mirchi Patna Station Director Mandar Patwardhan is confident of winning the hearts of the people of Patna by "delivering programmes that are relevant to the people of the city. This is a station for the people of Patna - playing their music and speaking their language." Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM will broadcast a diverse mix of shows including their breakfast property Hello Patna, Khoobsurat which deals with contemporary women's , Total Filmi for the latest Bollywood gossip; Bumper2Bumper, a gaming show; Purani Jeans for retro music and Dil Chahta Hai, a dial in request show.

Positioned as an entertainment channel, with music forming the core of its programming the station promises to entertain and inform audiences. Contemporary music, city happenings, Bollywood gossip, special interviews and exclusive film promotional tie-ups is what the listeners in Patna can tune in for.

Labels: Patna, Radio Mirchi

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