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South India | February 2007 |
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What's happening this month!
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Connecting |
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Last month Gordon Brown, on his first visit to India and to the British Council office in New Delhi announced the successful applicants in the first round of research awards under the UK-India Education and Research Initiative. These awards support collaboration between UK and Indian research teams in areas of interest and benefit to both countries and have four corporate champions in BAE, BP, Glaxo Smithkline and Shell. A total of over £ 5 million was awarded to teams from over 70 institutions in UK and India for innovative research areas such as environmentally friendly aeroplanes, climate change and human genetic make-up. Read Connecting online |
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Indelible Ink - A Season of Seeing |
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An exhibition of collages and paintings inspired by Indian images and colours by British artist Peter John Wells from Friday, 9 February to Thursday, 22 February. Peter will introduce in image, text and sound South Indian deities and British peculiarities such as Rhubarb. Inauguration will be on 8 February at 4:30 p.m. at British Council. For more information contact 044 42050600. |
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Buzz Spoken Word Performance |
| Buzz brings to you an exciting Spoken Word series - the best of contemporary poetry from the U.K. at British Council with Aoife Mannix on Wednesday, 14 February from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Join us to live the experience! For more information contact 044 42050600 | |
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Story Telling Session |
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It is the National Story Telling week. Special story telling session for the Young Learners Centre Members. Age Group: 5 to 9 years Date: Saturday, 17 February Morning Session: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Afternoon Session: 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information e-mail |
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Open Access |
| Dr Wendy Hall will deliver a public talk on 'Towards a Science of the Web' on Monday, 19 February at 4:30 p.m. at IC & SR Auditorium, IIT Madras, Adyar. Dr Wendy Hall and Dr Leslie Carr from Southampton University are here to popularise the 'Open Access' method of information transfer. This is organised in partnership with MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. For more information contact 044 42050600 |
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| Bangalore | |
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DVD Exhibition |
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We invite you to the display of new DVDs at our Library from Thursday, 1 February to Saturday, 3 February. The range includes Action movies, Comedy, Adventure, Literary classics, Children's movies, Feature films, War movies and Mysteries. Drop in and enjoy our new collection. |
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University Visit |
| Meet the representatives of the University of Reading Date: Wednesday, 28 February 2007 Time: 11.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Venue: British Library, Prestige Takt 23 Kasturba Road, Bangalore - 560 001. More information |
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CD Exhibition |
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An exhibition of over 300 CDs covering a wide range of subjects like Self development, Travel, 3-D design, Literature, and English language development from Saturday, 3 February to Saturday, 10 February. More information
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