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  Columbia News ::: Professor Mira Nair Reflects on Her Film Career During Zora Neale Hurston Lecture
Nair was quick to point out that she believes that an actor should not be pushed, he must feel truthful and perform in an atmosphere that gets him to a place he would like to explore within the character and the film.
Nair said that it was Shetty's sterling performance and the intensity that she brought to the scenes that convinced them to leave the element of incest in the film.
Nair is so involved in her craft and keen to capture the nuances of her subject that she has been told her investigation amounts to what could be called sociological or anthropological research.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/08/miraNair.html   (1566 words)

  
 Effect of increasing chip density on the evolution of computer architectures - Author bio
Dr. Nair graduated from the University of Illinois with a Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1978; he has worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center since then.
Nair has worked in the areas of computer architecture, design automation, and testing, and has several publications, patents, and IBM awards in these areas.
Nair is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Fellow of the IEEE.
www.research.ibm.com /journal/rd/462/nairaut.html   (147 words)

  
 Billy Nair
Billy Nair was born in Durban on 27 November 1929, one of the five children of Pravathy and Kisten Nair, an engineer's assistant in a cargo vessel which transported sugar.
Nair's political awareness was fired by critical debates in his college students union and by the impact of the passive resistance campaign held from 1946-48 against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representative Act.
Nair was active in Umkhonto we Sizwe(Spear of the Nation) from its inception on 16 December 1961 until his arrest in 1963.
www.anc.org.za /people/nair_b.html   (1221 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Mira Nair - it's just not Bollywood
It helps that Nair has lived and work in both cities and is totally enamoured with them- she spent her summer school holidays in Calcutta for 12 years, and she has lived in New York for the past two decades.
Nair says she finds the sounds, smell, street life and the funky graffiti in the two cities similar.
Nair has previously worked with Mumbai's (Bombay) street children in Salaam Bombay, and got her and cast members' entire families to act in the raucous Monsoon Wedding.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4080946.stm   (837 words)

  
 VG: Artist Biography: Nair, Mira
Nair feels the film has relevance to contemporary life in the United States, where sex is "devoid" of a connection to spirituality, and in India, where the historical connection has been lost.
Nair yielded the director’s seat in 2003 to produce a documentary directed by Dinaz Stafford that explores the ancient rice farming technique practiced by the Garos of Meghalaya.
Mira Nair described her film as “the ultimate love song to Delhi.” Showing the city both in its traditional aspect and one susceptible to western influence runs parallel to the gathering of the families for the wedding.
voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/nair_mira.html   (2498 words)

  
 MAGAZINE | FEATURES | Mira Nair & Hysterical Blindness | VOL 27-3 September 2002
Nair cites cinéma vérité as the foundation of her approach to filmmaking.
Despite this experienced cast, Nair did not direct the actors according to how they were trained or their specific methods.
Nair had to determine how far she should go when it came time to shooting the scene.
www.dga.org /news/v27_3/feat_mira_nair.php3   (1156 words)

  
 Delhi deluge of colour and movement in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding
Nair's film is thus a skilful blend of the colour, movement and joie de vivre accompanying traditional Punjabi wedding celebrations and a serious drama that tackles topics traditionally proscribed on the Indian screen, including adultery and paedophilia.
Nair's body of work, both fiction and non-fiction, has hitherto consistently addressed what could be loosely categorised as the plight of the underprivileged—individuals and groups disenfranchised in terms of class, gender, age, nationality and/or economic status.
As Nair has observed, she has “always been drawn to stories of people who live on the margins of society; people who are on the edge, or outside, learning the language of being in between; dealing with the questions, 'What, and where is home'” (10)
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/18/monsoon_wedding.html   (2289 words)

  
 Nair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Nair caste was a martial nobility, similar to the Samurai of Japan and figure prominently in Kerala History.
In some Nair families, the children carry the last name of their mother instead of the father, and are considered part of the mother's family, and not the father's.
Nairs connect to and trace their lineage to a tharavadu - not to a member of the family.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nair   (2571 words)

  
 INTERVIEW: Salaam India! Mira Nair Celebrates a "Monsoon Wedding"
Mira Nair: I came from the school of cinema verité documentaries, which was: Do not manipulate reality as it was happening but create a narrative in the editing room.
Nair: Well, the one big difference is we have a huge emphasis on family in India.
Nair: I've been doing a lot of world promotion with the film, and it's become something of a massive success in the UK, Australia and so onŠleaving not much time for me to really sit down and think about how it will be received here.
www.indiewire.com /people/int_Nair_Mira_020301.html   (1151 words)

  
 Savannah College of Art and Design > About > News > 051006 Director Mira Nair to speak at SCAD commencement ...
Nair, known as one of Hollywood’s most accomplished directors, achieved critical acclaim early in her career as a documentary filmmaker.
After the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Nair joined a group of 11 filmmakers for the “11.09.01” project, in which each filmmaker directed a movie that was 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame long.
Along with her film projects, Nair’s film company, Mirabai Films, is establishing an annual filmmaker's laboratory, Maisha, which will support the visionary of young screenwriters and directors in East Africa and South Asia.
www.scad.edu /about/news/topstories/2006/051006.cfm   (380 words)

  
 Director Mira Nair dusts off her favorite novel for a critique of class and race, English-style   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As Nair tells it, she was on a commercial airline when another passenger -- a native of India, as she is -- recognized her as the director of "Monsoon Wedding" and "Salaam Bombay!" "Salaam Bombay!" is about that city's street children, while "Monsoon Wedding" captures the environment at a well-to-do wedding.
Nair, who was born and raised in India before coming to the United States to attend Harvard, says Thackeray's novel is as much about class and race differences as it is about a young woman's improbable journey through the hallowed homes of old England.
Nair dramatized the story of a New York Muslim who went missing in the attacks and was suspected of being a terrorist -- until his remains were recovered in the rubble of the World Trade Center disaster and authorities realized that he had tried to rescue people from the buildings.
sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/02/DDG3D8HDD71.DTL   (927 words)

  
 Interview: MIRA NAIR
Nair fields each challenging question expertly, cowing reporters with her superior knowledge of Thackeray's novel and of English cultural history in general.
Nair: What was brilliant about the book, and why I made the film, really, is that it was about a time in early 19th Century England when colony was hugely intersecting the Empire.
Nair: —was to achieve a kind of cinematic rhythm, and a balance between all the stories that were going on at once.
www.aboutfilm.com /features/vanityfair/nair.htm   (4050 words)

  
 Welcome to Mirabai Films
Nair returned to the documentary form in August 1999 with The Laughing Club of India, which was awarded The Special Jury Prize in the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2000.
Nair’s film is a retelling of real events in the life of the Hamdani family in Queens, whose eldest son was missing after September 11, and was then accused by the media of being a terrorist.
Nair was appointed as the mentor in film by the prestigious Rolex Protégé Arts Initiative, joining fellow mentors Jessye Norman, Sir Peter Hall, David Hockney, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Saburo Teshigawara to help guide young artists in critical stages of their development.
www.mirabaifilms.com /bio.html   (776 words)

  
 Satish K. Nair — Full Pubs Listing
Nair, S.K., and Christianson, D.W. (1993) "Structural Consequences of a Hydrophilic Amino Acid Substitution in the Hydrophobic Pocket of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II" Biochemistry 32, 4506-4514.
Tweedy, N.B., Nair, S.K., Paterno, S.A., Fierke, C.A., and Christianson, D.W. (1993) "Structure and Energetics of a Non-Proline cis-Peptidyl Linkage in a Pro-202_Ala Carbonic Anhydrase II variant," Biochemistry 32, 10944-10949.
Nair, S.K., Calderone, T.L., Christianson, D.W., and Fierke, C.A. (1991) "Altering the Mouth of a Hydrophobic Pocket: Structure and Kinetics of Human Carbonic Anhydrase II Mutants at Residue Val-121," J.
www.life.uiuc.edu /biochem/f_nair2.html   (394 words)

  
 Darcy Nair -- Hammered Dulcimer, Vocals and More
A lively and engaging singer and multi-instrumentalist, Darcy Nair has performed professionally as a soloist and with folk music groups in the Washington, D.C. area since 1990.
She has produced and released 8 independent recordings, including 2 solo titles, and has earned 6 "Wammie" Award nominations from the Washington Area Music Association.
Duplication of the contents of this website without permission violates applicable laws, and she'll change her oil in your driveway.
www.darcynair.com   (287 words)

  
 Satish K. Nair
Li, B., Yu, J-P.J., Brunzelle, J.S., Moll, G.N., van der Donk, W.A., and Nair, S.K. (2006) "X-ray Structure and Mechanism of the Lantibiotic Cyclase Involved in Nisin Biosynthesis," Science 311, 1464-1467.
Lasker, M.V., Gajjar, M.M., and Nair, S.K. "Cutting Edge: Molecular Structure of the IL-1R-associated Kinase-4 Death Domain and its Implications for TLR Signaling," J.
Nair, S.K., and Burley, S.K. (2003) "X-ray Structures of Myc-Max and Mad-Max Recognizing DNA: Molecular Bases of Regulation by Proto-oncogenic Transcription Factors," Cell 112, 193-205.
www.life.uiuc.edu /biochem/f_nair.html   (762 words)

  
 CNN.com - Strength and cunning in a filthy society - Sep 7, 2004
Nair said books by Jane Austen and other 19th-century writers never interested her.
Nair said the best part of casting Witherspoon in such an offbeat role was that it gave her an opportunity to flex her directing muscles.
Nair said all the chaos of writing, scouting and casting is worth it in order to introduce a new "world" to audiences.
edition.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/07/mira.nair   (825 words)

  
 Devan Nair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Devan Nair (August 5, 1923–December 6, 2005), was the third President of Singapore and was elected by Parliament on October 23, 1981.
Nair was born in Malacca, Malaysia, but he and his family migrated to Singapore when he was 10 years old.
Nair also alleged that he was fed drugs to make him appear disoriented, and rumours were spread about his personal life in an attempt to discredit him.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Devan_Nair   (458 words)

  
 NAIR - The DJ List
Nair started organizing parties in Bielsko (using his gramophones) becoming partly responsible for the technical ones.
His musical skills Nair took after his father who was a drummer and an electric guitar-maker.
Nair is one of the best prepared djs in Bielsko who approaches his occupation in the most professional way.
www.thedjlist.com /djs/NAIR   (299 words)

  
 Nair Hospital & T.N. Medical College
Nair Hospital always tries its best to keep up with the rapid advances in medical sciences and has emerged as a frontrunner amongst the hospitals / medical colleges in Mumbai and the country.
Inaugurated in February 2000, it is the first machine of this type to be installed in a public hospital in the city of Mumbai.
Except for the UVB lights, the rest of the chamber was indigenously designed and constructed in Nair Hospital.
www.nair.edu /alumni/new.html   (518 words)

  
 Mira Nair Speaker Profile at The Lavin Agency
Mira Nair is the rare director whose films are both compelling meditations on important ideas and brilliant entertainment.
Raised in India and currently living in New York, Mira Nair has used her natural grasp of identity conflict to create a provocative and respected body of work.
Mira Nair is currently a mentor in film at the prestigious Rolex Protégé Arts Initiative, joining fellow mentors David Hockney and Mario Vargas Llosa to help guide young artists in critical stages of their artistic development.
www.thelavinagency.com /college/miranair.html   (511 words)

  
 the exhibits : kaazhchavasthukkal : malayalam documentary : by raj nair
Today, she is weak, hardly able to cover the space that separates her from her part of their former home to his last resting place, which is today a public monument.
'Kaazhchavasthukkal' (Exhibits), a 59-minute docu-feature by Raj Nair, the great writer's grandson, which seeks to map the evolution of 'Kaathamma' from a village belle to the lonely 85-year-old, was previewed at the Kalabhavan in the city today with several celebrities in attendance.
The film, according to Nair, is both about his 'Ammoomma' and 'the realities of ageing, conflicts between the past and present, the depressing colour of loneliness, but, above all, the redeeming power of love and memory.' Over to critics.
rajnair.com /docu/press.html   (1030 words)

  
 Mira Nair to direct Rani
Nair's latest film, Vanity Fair (starring Reese Witherspoon), an adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's classic, has opened to mixed reviews in the US.
Though she is tightlipped about her collaboration with Nair, Rani will play a Bengali girl's journey from her teens to her mid-40s in the US.
After her collaboration with Reese, it would be interesting to see what Nair does with Rani, who is riding on a career high with hits like Saathiya, Chalte Chalte and Hum Tum.
www.rediff.com /movies/2004/sep/10rani.htm   (427 words)

  
 Nair Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Nair gives men the tools they need to learn to really listen to women and teaches them how to recognize prejudices against women that cloud their judgment.
In simple and direct language, Nair explores how businesspeople can make decisions, set goals, and implement actions that are guided by the spirit of service.
Meera Nair explores the lives of Indians in America (and, in some, back on the subcontinent) in this collection of stories, which includes "A Warm Welcome to the President, Insh'Allah!" in which a small Indian town makes elaborate preparations for a visit from President Clinton, which never materializes.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Nair   (936 words)

  
 Fox Searchlight Pictures : Mira Nair   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Accomplished Filmmaker Mira Nair was born in India and educated at Delhi University and at Harvard.
Nair returned to the documentary form in August 1999 with THE LAUGHING CLUB OF INDIA, following which she shot MONSOON WEDDING in 30 days in the summer of 2000.
Nair’s upcoming projects include Hari Kunzru’s THE IMPRESSIONIST and a Hollywood adaptation of the Hindi blockbuster, MUNNABHAI M.B.B.S. She will be bringing MONSOON WEDDING to Broadway in 2006 and is simultaneously establishing an annual filmmaker’s lab, MAISHA, in East Africa for 12 young filmmakers from the region.
www.foxsearchlight.com /filmmakers/nair   (410 words)

  
 rediff.com, Movies: Shashilal Nair on Ek Choti Si Prem Kahani
Says Nair, "It could not be made in two schedules.
Nair put up advertisements when he couldn't find the right face to play the character.
Produced under Paragon Pictures, Nair's production house, the film will be released in select cities.
www.rediff.com /entertai/2002/apr/22nair.htm   (427 words)

  
 Mira Nair: an eye for paradox.
The youngest of the three children of a civil servant, Nair was born in 1957 in the city of Bhubaneshwar in eastern India.
Nair now lives in Cape Town (South Africa) with her husband Mahmood Mamdani, a political scientist, and their young son Zohran.
Jama Masjid Street Journal (1979): Nair's first film was part of her student thesis project and draws on her personal experience of exploring life within a traditional Muslim community in Old Delhi from the perspective of a Western-educated Indian woman.
www.unesco.org /courier/1998_11/uk/dires/txt1.htm   (3166 words)

  
 Nair Videos - Metacafe
Rajmohan Nair, a man who generates 440 watts of electricity from his body.
The owner Nair de Camargo is selling this rarety.
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