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the (Not So) Old Country At the IREO real estate presentation last Sunday at the Marriot Hotel in Sugar Land, from left, Parag Vaidya, Mary Cronin and Anjali Grover with company spokesperson tennis great Vijay Amritraj. Photo: Jawahar Malhotra
Anjali Grover and Mary Cronin were in town from the New York office this supported by local staff, for past weekend, Grand Arch, in a presentation at Gurgaon, the the Sugar Land Marriott of the properties that flagship project IREO is building in major cities in India. A for IREO, is spread beach resort development in Goa is scheduled to start in 2 years. And tennis legend Indo American news • Friday, may 28 , 2010 editiOn: www.indoamerican-news.com Vijay Am 1 ritraj was onOnline tour with them too as the official spokesperson. 50¢ Friday, May 28 2010 | Vol. 29, No. 22 Amritraj, who lives in Los Circulation Verified by Angeles, had been on the ATP circuit and played in many of the Grand Slam tennis events in his in singles as well as in doubles heyday, both with Anand. Since then, he has dabbled his brother and other ventures and currently in the movies runs the Vijay Amritraj Foundation which has in India, especially Chennai charity projects where Amritraj LAMHE- a pure bollywood musical delight hails from. He is also works of featuring four-time Filmfare Award winner sociate with the United Nations.issues as an as Kavita Krishnamurti, the incredible “I played for India in the Davis Cup for 20 Bollywood’s classical music phenomenon years,” explained Amritraj, “served 5 terms Suresh Wadkar, the melodious Sa Re Ga as President of the ATP and READ US ONLINE at have done some Ma Pa winner Sanchita, the rising playmovies and TV. I have learnt www.indoamerican-news.com that you must back singer Aavez Darbar, accompanied exploit yourself to the limit Published weekly from Houston, TX and prove that you by the original six-member Sa Re Ga Ma are the best in the world. You must look at a 7457 Harwin Dr, Suite 262, Houston, TX 77036 Pa band headed by Girish Vishwa. company and ask what they have done in their Ph: 713.789.NEWS (6397) • Fax: 713.789.6399 • indoamericannews@yahoo.com professional life.” And that is what Amritraj found when IREO turned to him to be their ambassador sure of IREO’s strong commitmen . He is t to India and happy to see many cities, hometown of Chennai, among including his the sites for master planned communitie s. “It is a good partnership,” he concluded, “and one I can pas sionately promote.” IREO was started in 2003 with as a global investment fund of $1.5bn and with the design and construction arm has offices in 7 cities in the US, India and Mauritius and 300 employees. The funds have been used to buy up 3,000 acres all across India for 14 master-plan ned projects. The flagship project is the Grand Arch (a cube with a square hole which resembles its name sake building in Paris, France) built in Gurgaon, on Golf Coursewhich is being Road, about 2 miles from the South Delhi enclave of Saket. Grand Arch is a 1.6m sf mixed-use Gold develop ment built on 21 acres, with 1,211.90 47.12 -69.30 • -0.69% lakes, shopping and an ice rink and was started in September 2009 -15.07 • -0.68% with completion by September Silver 85.36 ing to Grover, all phases were 2012. Accord 18.05 365.36 • 0.22% sold out by March 2010, “and we are actively 69.55 looking to buy back Platinum 24.50 • 0.58% some units!” she said. 1518.00 Adjacent to it on SUGAR LAND: many, it the 800 acres 84.97 • 1.41% that For 113.97 IREO owns, in Sector 66 was Delhi he speaks at many tionalism and so the mindset was less than a war and we have to fear in New By Jawahar Malhotra a treat just to see a former another developmen t spread for• 1.94% our coming generations,” HOUSTON: The buildup to the atuned to the Hindi vernacular. 183.11 great world-class tennis player Brent 70.33he gatherings like the one at the India last Saturday evening, May So, it seemed appropriate for said emphaticallySpot in Hindi. “We House 75.80 and have a picture taken with him. speech that everyone came to hear 0.79% • -0.63% have a chance to fight for this. 23 in front of about 150 people. But as the presentation and the de- was preceeded by comments and Tarun Vijay, when he was invited3.04still Vijay is the author of over 2,000 signs for the master communities remarks by the local organizers upto the podium, to start off in Let us remind ourselves that if we were explained by and laid out on and the other speaker from out of shud (pure) Hindi, and he may Indians have forgotten our values, articles in English and Hindi in many Indian and international methe projection screen, it became town, Mahesh Mehta, the founder have lost many in the audience as then we will be wiped out.” Tarun Vijay was not mincing any dia and has been a regular columclearer that many of the over 80 of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad in they paid close attention to each people who attended the IREO’s the US and currently its Interna- word, catching maybe every third words. As the National Spokesper- nist for more than 22 newspapers. sales event were seriously eyeing tional Vice President, all of which word. Still, Vijay’s versatility in son for the Bharatiya Janata Party Vijay is often quoted in the media the Indian market for a real-estate were conducted for the most part conveying his message in Hindi and a Director of the Dr. Syama on India’s socio-political issues in English, the language most may even exceed his powerful Prasad Mookerjee Research Foun- and has written four books on the opportunity. same. Complete Story on Pg 25 often used in large desi settings writings in English but the mes- dation, an ideological think tank Switching to English, Vijay conbased on the Nationalist school of among us here. Of course, the sub- sage is the still the same. “India in at the forefront of no thought at the BJP headquarters ject matter dealt with Hindu NaContinued on Pg 3
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HOUSTON: When you are an Oscar winner and on a world tour, you need a fashion designer. Even the sartorially sombre AR Rahman. So Ritu Beri is designing the wardrobe for Rahman and his troupe for “AR Rahman Jai Ho: The Journey Home World Tour 2010”, which comes to Houston on July 3. Beri, who has barely a month to get the costumes ready, has to design 34 different looks for Rahman and the group of musicians and dancers who will be travelling with him. Befitting the grandeur of the sets and the occasion, she has designed unusual LED costumes for the team. “It’s been my most thrilling experience to date,” says Beri. “When I started working on the looks, I realised that Rahman was not the
one for flashy colours,” she says. But Beri is determined to make Rahman sport looks that he hadn’t so far. “This time Rahman has experimented. He has been more fun and adventurous,” says Beri who got him in ethnicwear for the song Khwaja mere Khwaja from the
film Jodhaa Akbar. For another number, Rahman dresses like Michael Jackson, and this surely has been his boldest look, says Beri. She isn’t sure about touring with the troupe, but she will be definitely going to cheer them in Paris on June 17.
crash raises issue of india’s aviation Oversight MUMBAI: An Air India flight that crashed after landing in southern India on Saturday killed 158 people and raised questions about India’s oversight of a rapidly growing aviation industry. The immediate cause of the accident appeared to be pilot error: the Boeing 737 overshot the hilltop runway in Mangalore, one of India’s trickiest airports, on the southwestern coast. Complete Story on Pg 31
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