28 April 2008

flashback

ironically touching.
from today's times of india, memories of a snowy morning glued to the tv as one of the more horrible events in the world of higher education unfolded.
the virginia tech gunman and an architecture student. from blacksburg to mumbai. not quite full circle.

"Her dream project was to create an environment for development of children, particularly for troubled youth. Now, a year after young Minal Panchal was gunned down in a deadly campus shooting in the US by a troubled student, her family has approached the Indian government to convert her thesis - a museum for children - into brick-and-mortar reality."

read the rest of the articles here, and here.

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