Ratan Tata '59 spoke on campus Thursday, launching a two-day symposium on the Nano, the "world's most affordable car."

Cornell received a grant to lead a consortium to improve agricultural education in Indian universities.  

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To design and mass-produce an automobile selling for around $2,200 is no easy feat.  Beginning this winter break, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum will exhibit a true piece of art — Tata Motors' revolutionary car, the Tata Nano.

With one of the Ivy League’s largest populations of Indian students, Cornell is expanding its scholarships for Indian students, collaboration with peer institutions and student exchange programs in India.

Witch hunts conjure images of 17th century Salem, The Crucible and perhaps even Monty Python. They are relics of the past and today are relegated to fiction. But for thousands of women in modern-day India, witch hunts are all too real. Over the last 15 years, an estimated 2,500 Indian women have been killed because they were “witches.” Tons more have been beaten, tortured, forced off their land and driven out of their villages. They are treated brutally: Victims may be beheaded, hacked to death, stoned, buried alive, forced to eat excrement or raped.

As the applause in Risley dining hall subsided, Dr. Mohan Man Sainju stood up in front of the red Nepalese national flag and faced the audience. On Saturday, the vice chairperson of the Poverty Alleviation Fund in Nepal and former royal Nepalese ambassador to the U.S. and Canada fixed the audience with a solemn gaze and began his speech on the prospects of Nepal’s development.

Currently on view at the Johnson Museum, Daniel Nadler’s ’54 photographs of Theyyam Rituals of Kerala offer an extraordinary view into the local religious traditions of the south Indian state of Kerala. These performances, in which a male performer is used a vehicle for the spirit of a god, were captured by chance by Nadler while he and his wife travelled through India in 2004.

“It’s not like any other conference you’ve been to,” promised Prof. Lisa Patti, film, speaking of the film conference held at Cornell this past Friday and Saturday. Indeed, the unique structure of the conference was readily apparent after merely a brief glance at the program of events — unlike other conferences that focus on a keynote speech and subsequent panel discussions, this conference had no keynote speech and was structured around a series of film viewings and group discussions which — though led by a discussion chair and series of panelists — included heavy audience participation.