Indian woman ditches corporate world for dirt-poor village
Chhavi Rajawat, an MBA graduate and one-woman whirlwind, is seeking to drag her impoverished ancestral village in the desert state of Rajasthan into the 21st century.
Chhavi Rajawat, an MBA graduate and one-woman whirlwind, is seeking to drag her impoverished ancestral village in the desert state of Rajasthan into the 21st century.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) bagged four awards in the prestigious 48th Anvil Awards held Friday at the Makati Shangri-La.
I thought the staff was sick and tired of doing the Christmas wish list. Apparently, except for one or two, they’re not. It is, as one of them chuckled—joking, get that clear—that time of the year “we can be self-serving,” and it’s “our aspiration to leave a legacy.” (Now you know why sometimes it’s good not to take them that seriously.)
Newspapers could regale its readers without sacrificing depth or accuracy.
The publication of “Regional Autonomy and Federalism: Concepts and Issues for the Bangsamoro Government” (MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology OVCRE-MMIDU, 2012, 152 pp) comes at a time when a more peaceful atmosphere is felt with the assumption into office by a new administration led by the son of late President Cory Aquino, who had laid the groundwork for peace in Mindanao during her term; and, the hostilities between the Philippine Armed Forces and the MILF in Mindanao have relatively scaled down, as more civil and nonbelligerent ways are considered in the attempt to bring an end to the Mindanao conflict.
I grew up in a town that is home to people with different religions. In the middle of the town proper is the Roman Catholic parish. Behind the rundown municipal auditorium is a Protestant church. Another church of the same denomination can be found tucked in an outlying residential village. Further south of our town, along the national highway, rise the mighty spires of the Iglesia ni Cristo.
President Benigno Aquino plans to have something especially “hot” this Christmas.
Contemporary Philippine history records August as the month of deaths of individuals highly admired like Cory Aquino (Aug. 1), Cory Aquino’s Interior Secretary Jaime Ferrer (Aug. 2), Ninoy Aquino (Aug. 21), and the most recent, P-Noy’s Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo (Aug. 18). These dates should give greater relevance and meaning to the annual holiday at the end of the month, National Heroes Day.
They wore their hearts on their sleeves and carried their politics on their backs, their bodices and their shirts.
His vital signs may have improved, but comedian Dolphy remains at the intensive care unit of the Makati Medical Center, so calls for him to be proclaimed National Artist, while they may have abated in the meantime, are expected to continue. But the drawn-out selection process and other inconvenient realities may conspire to rule out any immediate proclamation.
Amid his busy schedule, President Benigno Aquino III made sure he didn’t miss the business forum sponsored by the joint Philippine alumni clubs of top American universities such as Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northwestern-Kellogg, Stanford and Wharton-Penn, at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Peninsula Manila.
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