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Dallas, Texas Edition # 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 7 ISSUE 41 ● DALLAS ● OCT 18 - 24, 2019 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news Invites articles and advertisements Brexit deal clinched in last-ditch talks for the Deepavali special edition, October 25. Please email articles by October 17 "We have a great new Brexit deal," U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted to [email protected]. Advertisers are requested to book BRUSSELS (TIP): UK and EU leaders space by October 15 and email stood on a stage in Brussels on creatives by October 20 to [email protected] Thursday, October 17, and declared that For more information, visit a Brexit deal had, finally, been done. www.theindianpanorama.news Negotiators from the U.K. and EU Email to: [email protected] reached a draft Brexit deal in 11th-hour Cell: 646-247-9458 talks Thursday, although there are serious doubts that the agreement will be approved by U.K. lawmakers back in Parts of Gurdwara Westminster. Panja Sahib in Sterling rose on news after the U.K. made concessions over the Irish border, Pakistan gutted in Fire an issue that had proven to be the biggest obstacle to a deal. The pound was 0.8% higher against the dollar, at $1.2929, reaching a five-month high but soon trimmed those gains as opposition parties in the U.K voiced their concerns. The UK and EU negotiators joined PM Boris Johnson (2nd L) and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker (2nd R) for a photo session with photographers contd on Page 20 Congressman Elijah E. Gurdwara Panja Sahib in Pakistan is one of India Gets Second Nobel the most revered Sikh shrines in the world. Cummings Dies at 68 HASAN ABDAL, PAKISTAN Laureate in Economics One of the most (TIP): A fire broke out at the powerful Congressmen Gurdwara Panja Sahib in the Indian American MIT Economist Abhijit Vinayak Elijah E. Cummings who investigated Pakistani city of Hasan Abdal on Banerjee Bags the Second Nobel Prize in Trump, has died Wednesday, October 16, Sajjad Azhar, a freelance journalist who has Economics after Amartya Sen (1998) WASHINGTON (TIP): extensively covered the news of the BOSTON (TIP): India got another Representative Elijah E. Cummings, place said. contd on Page 20 Nobel laureate in Economics after a son of sharecroppers who rose to Amartya Sen when Indian American become one of the most powerful MIT economist Abhijit Vinayak Democrats in Congress and a Indian ambassador Banerjee was named the winner of the contd on Page 32 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in briefs US lawmakers on Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred situation in Kashmir Nobel. His fellow MIT economist and wife Esther Duflo was named co-winner Shringla and other of the Nobel, along with another co- Will bring out a profusely illustrated diplomats from the Indian winner, Harvard University economist special edition to mark the Embassy here and its Michael Kremer. Duflo, 46, is the 550th birth anniversary of Shri consulates in New York, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the First Master of Chicago, Atlanta, Houston youngest economics laureate ever and the Sikhs, on November 8. and San Francisco have the second woman to receive the prize in Articles and advertisements reached out to hundreds of its half-century history. for thespecial commemorative edition Congressmen and their Incidentally Amartya and Abhijit, are invited. aides after abrogation of Please email articles by November 1 to the state's special status. both Bengalis, also share the same [email protected]. college, Presidency Kolkata. Banerjee is Advertisers are requested to bookspace WASHINGTON (TIP): India's the sixth Indian with 'Kolkata MIT economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther by October 30 and emailcreatives by ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan connection' to win a Nobel after Duflo stand outside their home after learning November 3 to [email protected]. Shringla on Wednesday, October 16, Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Ronald Ross, C that they have been named co-winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. They For more information, visit briefed lawmakers on the situation in V Raman, Mother Teresa and Amartya will share the prize with Michael Kremer of www.theindianpanorama.news Kashmir and the steps taken to Sen. Harvard University. Email to: [email protected]. contd on Page 20 contd on Page 20 Photo / courtesy MIT News Call 646-247-9458. Governor Abbott spoke highly of Texas Governor Discusses Enduring bond with India Mahatma Gandhi at the 150th Birth Anniversary at Gandhi Birth Anniversary Celebration in Irving Celebration for Mahatma Gandhi IRVING, TX (TIP): Texas Governor Gandhi's teachings of peace in the the Indian-American community is in Irving, Greg Abbott on Oct 6 delivered remarks modern world. As part of the deeply rooted in our shared values of File photo at the 150th Birth Anniversary celebration, Governor Abbott also paid family, community, and freedom," said Celebration for Mahatma Gandhi in floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, and Governor Abbott. "These are the same Mahatma Gandhi's birth, it is my hope Irving, Texas. The Governor discussed toured the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial values that Mahatma Gandhi advocated that all who visit this memorial today, the enduring bond between India, Texas, Plaza - the largest memorial for for, and they are the foundation for tomorrow, and all the years to come will and the Indian Americancommunity,and Mahatma Gandhi in the United States. greater cultural understanding. As we be reminded of his teachings of peace, highlighted the importance of Mahatma "The bond between India, Texas, and celebrate the 150th anniversary of harmony, nonviolence, and unity." THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 NEW YORK FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019 550th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Conference on Guru Nanak’s Ek - Anek Vision of Inclusivity held at Hofstra University Bhai Baldeep Singh (left) and Daud Khan (right) at the opening session of the conference. but also the multi-linguistic, multi-geographic, and multi-authored compositions collected in Shri Guru Granth Sahib through the Sikh, Bhakti and Sufi Tejinder Singh Bindra welcoming scholars and guests Dr. Balbinder Singh Bhogal and Dr. Francesca Cassio voices. welcoming guests The three concerts presented during the HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK (TIP): gurmat sangeet in their family and how happy her Conference were, in fact, an integral part of the The three-day Guru Nanak's Ek-Anek Vision parents would be of seeing the progress of the intellectual project that aims to showcase the conference was organized at Hofstra University from musicology chair. pluriversality of Guru Nanak's message in its sonic 10 to 12 October by Dr Balbinder Singh Bhogal and Dr Both the Provost Dr Herman Berliner and Dean form, and how the memory of heterodox traditions Francesca Cassio under the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Ben Rifkin thanked the generous support of late has been retained through the songs collected in the Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies and Sardarni Harbans Sardar Ishar Singh Bindra and family and Dr Hakam Sikh Scriptures, and preserved by the Sikh Kaur Chair in Sikh Musicology. The conference was Singh for endowing the chairs and attended by over 30 scholars and artists from all over acknowledged the great contribution of the world. This was the eighth conference at Hofstra both chairs in the department of religion at under the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair since its Hofstra. inception in 2001. Hofstra is also home of Guru Nanak Dr Balbinder Singh Bhogal welcome everyone to Interfaith Prize, endowed by Sardar Ishar the conference and laid out the aim which is to Singh Bindra , where a $ 50,000 Prize is establish Gur Sikh musicological and philosophical awarded every two years to a person or difference - a difference that not only includes but organization that bring religions close. His preserves the other's voice as its own, making its own Holiness The Dalai Lama was the first history a shared history . recipient of this Prize. At the welcome dinner Tejinder Singh Bindra Dr Cassio summarized the conference as Padma Shri Prahlad Tipanya and his group sang Kabir Bani congratulated everyone on Guruji's 550th birth an important and historic event - with anniversary and spoke of secularism, universal love some intellectual substance, in terms of inserting the and equality -equality whether it be among nations, Sikh voice in the debate about Indian music history, community who sang these poems over the past 500 castes , gender or wealthpreached and practiced by with the possibility of re-writing it, or at least years. Guru Nanak . He thanked Hofstra university and registering our challenge to the way that history The first concert was entirely dedicated to Guru both Professors for selecting this wonderful topic and eludes the Sikh voice and contribution. Nanak. The prime exponent of the Gurbani kirtan bringing so many renowned and distinguished Scholars from Harvard, Yale, Columbia and parampara, Bhai Baldeep Singh sang compositions scholars and artists to the conference. Michigan as well Banaras Hindu University, and that have been transmitted within the pre-colonial Mrs. Indie Singh spoke about the importance of Guru Nanak Dev University from India, began a Gur-Sikh traditions as original compositions of the conversation for the first time engaging directly with founder of the Sikh faith. In this recital, Bhai the sonic evidence that Bhai Baldeep Singh (the Baldeep Singh proposed for the first time to retrace Keynote speaker) presented. The initiation of this Guru Nanak's experience of the early (pre-colonial) critical assessment and discussion was a major Gurbani kirtan, accompanied by Daud Khan Sadozai success in the field of Sikh studies and the on a rabab that is a replica of the rabab played by the ethnomusicology of South Asia.
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