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GEMS Webinar Series

Date: March 21, 2024
Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm ET
Location: Zoom
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GEMS (Gender, Equity, Mobilization, and Sustainability) Lecture Series: Initiatives from the Global South

Friends of Kalangarai is hosting a series of FREE virtual lectures by experts leading innovative programs that address poverty, women’s rights, environmental injustice, and socioeconomic development in South Asia

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“AWAKE”NING Entrepreneurship in Women: Empowerment and Sustainable Livelihoods by AWAKE in KARNATAKA India

AWAKE (Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Karnataka) is a nongovernmental organization that has nurtured many women into entrepreneurs covering both rural and urban areas of Karnataka. It has been recognized as a pioneer organization in the field of women empowerment through entrepreneurship development and helped several thousands of women to become economically independent and become role models to be emulated by future generations.

Speaker: Rajeswari Ranganathan

Dr. Rajeswari is a practicing Veterinarian specialized in Vet microbiology. She started her career as an entrepreneur in the veterinary diagnostic and farm consultancy services and had been serving the farming sector since 1997. She has been a volunteer at AWAKE, serving on various committees. She is currently the President of AWAKE

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Friends of Kalangarai Book Group

Date: April 12, 2024
Time: 5:30 pm ET
Location: In Person and on Zoom
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Exploring India through the Lens of Novelists

Interested in traveling to India but don’t want to leave your cozy living room? Our new book discussion group focuses on Indian novelists. Authors include Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Thrity Umrigar, Abraham Verghese, Sujuta Massey among others. The book discussion will be hybrid—in person and on Zoom—and meets every two months on the second Friday of the month at 5:30-6:30 (EST). Future dates for 2024 are: June 14, August 9, October 11.

Hullabaloobook

The book for our second session (April 12) is Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai.

Kiran Desai tells a hilarious and poignant story of life, love, and family relationships that captures the vivid culture of the Indian subcontinent and the universal intricacies of human experience.

Kiran Desai is the winner of the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss. She is one of the most talented writers of her generation.

Place in-person: Friends of Kalangarai
227 Union Street – Suite 707,
New Bedford, MA 02740

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