Here is the article that describes the story. Hope this catches up with other colleges in the US. Surely worth keeping an eye on. Surely worth sharing with folks in India as well – although they might already be on top of things http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/US-colleges-beat-down-fees-in-drive-towards-10000-degree/articleshow/16730539.cms
USS Hornet is an aircraft carrier that served in World War II and is now stationary in Alameda It is a four level ship with self explanatory exhibits and some guided tour, has a nice view of the bay too. We went there recently and felt it is a good …
KV-Returns (KVR) – a group of Kutchis who have returned from US to Mumbai or Pune had a get-together in Lonawala on Sep 21-23 (Fri-Sun) 2012. It was the equivalent of Camp KV in USA with equal amount of fun. 10 families attended the get-together which made a total of 36. 2 more families were supposed to join but they dropped out. Otherwise
Recently we did a Sonoma County Getaway. Of course Wine County seems to be an interesting getaway for the couples but how about when you have kids? This time we visited Coppola Winery – a kids friendly Winery. http://www.franciscoppolawinery.com/visit It had a very nice pool. One can rent Cabins for …
The Pune Kutchi Yuva Mandal organizes some event every 2-3 months here. Recently they organized a quiz competition. The overall quiz competition was very well organized and I thought maybe sometime in future KV can also have a
An Indian Chinese restaurant at a prime location in Milpitas.
Most pre schools have an hour or two of naptime/quiet time right after lunch.How does your preschool handle a child who doesnt want to sleep ? Do they allow reading / coloring activity if the child is not sleepy or do they expect them to lie down quietly on the …
This labor day (Sep 2012), we (Kunal Haria, Sweta Nagda, Bhanik Shah, Trishla Gosar, Mayank Dedhia, Alloki Bhatt, Siddharth Shah, Amrish Savla) visited the Glacier National Park . It is one of the biggest national parks situated in Northwest America. Lot of people and friends asked me before the labor …
Original article written by folks in Jaina and available here. Bhavini posted the email containing the article to kutchvalley. Its a wonderful article and I thought to reproduce it here for the sake of discussion and future reference. Introduction The discussion about the Samvatsari Day and Jain Calendar is always …
McDonald is going vegetarian – not completely but it could be a trend setter… http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/04/160543754/mcdonalds-goes-vegetarian-in-india