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Remote village gets Internet access: Iranian hamlet even has its own Web site in Farsi
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SHAHKOOH, Iran - At first glance, this could be any sleepy Iranian
hamlet. Women weave carpets on traditional looms. Tea brews over open
fires. Donkeys outnumber cars.
But listen closely: That clacking is fingers on keyboards and that
crackling is modems connecting to the Internet.
Welcome to the mountain village that lacks an elementary school,
possesses just one central outhouse - but has gone global.
No other Iranian village has progressed as far as Shahkooh, 240
miles northeast of Tehran, in tapping the Internet's potential to
widen its horizons.
Villagers credit a native son. Ali Akbar ...
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Ali Akbar Khan, 87, master sarod player OBITUARY
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...International Herald Tribune 06-22-2009 Ali Akbar Khan, 87, master sarod player OBITUARY...York Times Edition: 4 Section: NEWS Ali Akbar Khan, the foremost virtuoso of the lutelike...kidney failure, said a spokesman for the Ali Akbar College of Music. Mr. Khan, who was...
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Ali Akbar Khan is on a quest to keep India's sarod music alive.(Originated from Orange County Register)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...Ravi Shankar and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ali Akbar Khan is perhaps the best-known purveyor...that but Khan continues to operate the Ali Akbar Khan Foundation (which funds the Bab...as an Indian music archive) and the Ali Akbar College of Music, both in San Rafael...
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Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian musician and sarod virtuoso OBITUARY
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...International Herald Tribune 06-22-2009 Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian musician and sarod...York Times Edition: 1 Section: NEWS Ali Akbar Khan, the foremost virtuoso of the lutelike...kidney failure, said a spokesman for the Ali Akbar College of Music. Mr. Khan, who was...
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Sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan passes away at 87.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...19 (ANI): Noted Sarod player Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who belonged to Sania Maihar Gharana...village of Shibpur, Comilla in Bangladesh Ali Akbar Khan was the child of Baba Allauddin...concentrate on the Srod and on vocal. Ustad Ali Akbar Khan gave his first public performance...
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Musicians hail maestro Ali Akbar Khan on his 80th birthday
Newspaper article from: India Abroad
; ...many musicians who paid tribute to Ustad Ali Akbar Khan on his 80th birthday. "Khan Sahib...Hart, John Handy, students from the Ali Akbar College of Music, and Khan's offspring...honored to play for his birthday." The Ali Akbar College of Music students began the day...
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Ali Akbar Khan headlines UC-Davis performance, amazes audience
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...Calif. -- A musical genius, maestro Ali Akbar Khan astonished an unsuspecting audience...of each note he played. "I had seen Ali Akbar Khan perform once before at a recital...generations of sarod players. While Ali Akbar Khan's motions were strong and powerful...
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USTAD ALI AKBAR KHAN
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...maestro's obituaries. When introducing Ali Akbar Khan, ustad [master] of the sarod...the great musical philosopher, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, directly or indirectly." The...Hindustani music - and Madina Manjari, Ali Akbar Khan grew up in ascetic circumstances...
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The Classical Music of North India: The Music of the Baba Allauddin Gharana as Taught by Ali Akbar Khan, vol. 1.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...first-year program of study at the Ali Akbar College of Music in California, offers...to receive this material orally from Ali Akbar Khan. Those who come to this volume...even those by someone as illustrious as Ali Akbar Khan. For this reason, it is particularly...
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Indian Classical Musician Ali Akbar Khan to Receive Distinguished Service Award from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).
PR Newswire
; ...internationally renowned Indian classical musician Ali Akbar Khan at a gala dinner on Saturday, April...the world. In 1956, he founded the Ali Akbar College of Music in Calcutta. He began...1965 and two years later, opened an Ali Akbar College of Music in Berkeley, now in...
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Ali Akbar Khan, 87; brought India's classical music to US
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; LOS ANGELES - Ali Akbar Khan, an acclaimed Indian musician...was 87. The website announcement by Ali Akbar College of Music, Mr. Khan's teaching...foundation, he was encouraged to start the Ali Akbar College of Music, initially in Berkeley...
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