KHAZANA AUGUST 16, 2013•C11Vignettes

LIBRA SEP 23 - OCT 22ARIES MAR 21-APR 20

TAURUS APR 21 - MAY 20 SCORPIO OCT 23 - NOV 22

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 -DEC22GEMINI MAY 21 - JUN 20

Ganesha foresees some hectic ac-tivity on the work front. You are likelyto discuss various issues affectingyour work with the top managementor with your superiors. If you haveyour own business, then this periodwill prove to be rewarding. Eventhough financially you will be in acomfortable situation, you need tocontrol your urge for impulsive buy-ing and save more to secure yourfuture. As far as relationships are con-cerned, your equation with yourspouse will be good.

CANCER JUN 21 - JUL 22 CAPRICORN DEC 23 - JAN 20

AQUARIUS JAN 21 - FEB 19LEO JUL 23 - AUG 22

PISCES FEB 20 - MAR 20VIRGO AUG 23 - SEP 22

A favourable week for you is in store,as you look set to be all bubbly andcheerful - in everything you do. Brim-ming with zest and enthusiasm, youwill work hard and shall earn a greatdeal of respect and recognition. If youhave been planning to initiate somenew project/s, this is a favourable pe-riod and your success is guaranteed,says Ganesha. You will utilise each andevery minute you have in learning newthings and equipping yourself withenhanced knowledge.

Tide turns on your favour, and thisweek luck shall favour you in all yourendeavours. You look set shall havean excellent time during this week,foretells Ganesha. You just have tobe careful of your health, which maygive you some jitters this week. Onall other fronts, things look rosy. Thisperiod may fetch you a raise in yourjob or see your business flourish dueto your hard work and past efforts.In business, however, try not to beover ambitious.

This week, you shall be totally en-grossed in your work, taxing your brainto come up with a better solution toyour work related woes. Since youyourself have set very high standardsof delivering quality work, you tend toexpect the same from others too. Thismay lead to some disappointments,as everyone may not measure up toyour stringent quality standards. Atwork, you may organise brain-storm-ing sessions and impose tight dead-lines to complete the work on hand.

You shall be cool and composed atwork, handling everything with ease,this week. You will be mature andstraightforward in your dealings, andthis will impact your work in a positivemanner. This positivity shall have aspill-over effect, and your colleagueswill feel happier too in your presence.Naturally, the work atmosphere shallbe vibrant. This will also help you allto achieve what you have set out to –within the stipulated time. Stresswanes, and things seem easier.

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You may get deviated from yourgoals and work this week. Hence,Ganesha advises you to maintain yourfocus and try to control your waver-ing mind. You need to maintain yourcomposure, both in your personaland professional life. Work burden onyou may increase too much, and youmay have to put in extra hours to fulfilall your work obligations. You shalldo it without complaining, since youdon’t like to pass the buck as far aswork and taking responsibility for it isconcerned.

This week, you may face unduepressure at work. Pacing yourself withthe set deadlines may become an is-sue, feels Ganesha. Due to your un-necessary attention to detail, you mayalso get stuck in unproductive pur-suits, affecting your work adversely.Hence, you are advised to discard thistendency in you and get your act to-gether, otherwise more trouble on thework front may embroil you. On thefinancial front, you will be anxious tosave much from your earnings.

This is a favourable period to for-mulate plans for fulfilling all your am-bitious goals and targets. However,Ganesha advises you to be patient,and don’t be in a hurry to implementyour plans immediately. Consult yournear and dear ones, and wait for abetter time to initiate new projects.Don’t make any major decision inyour life, which may affect your sta-bility. If you are married, avoid thetemptation of an extra martial affair.Rather stay loyal to your spouse.

This week, be careful and do not letunscrupulous or shrewd people takeundue advantage of you, warnsGanesha. You may experience somesignificant changes in your personal-ity, thankfully which will have positiveovertones. You may feel that you arediscarding your rigidity, and becom-ing more flexible in your approach.Restrain yourself from taking part inspeculative activities, as time is notfavourable for them. On the romanticfront, you may share a great equa-tion with your spouse or partner

You are all set to make excellentprogress on the work front, and youmay accomplish a lot, making youfeel happy and positive. Ganeshaadvises you not to be judgemental inyour approach towards others, andshun all your misconceptions. Also,don’t be gullible, as due to yoursimple and uncomplicated nature, youmay be taken for a ride by peoplewith some vested interests and ulte-rior motives. Try to strike a good equa-tion with people around you.

A favourable and a fun-filled weekis on the cards for you, saysGanesha. It is good that you take alogical and a practical approach to-wards your life and work. However,sometimes, you have to look at thingsfrom a different perspective alto-gether, which shall also give a fillip toyour creativity. Now, you will also tryto broaden your knowledge by in-teracting with various types ofpeople. This is not a favourable pe-riod for litigation and legal hassles –steer clear or postpone.

During this week, you may be pronetowards taking undue stress, mostlyabout your work and your perfor-mance in the assignments allotted toyou. You shall be anxious about theoutcome of all the hard work that youhave invested in your professional life,and may actually be too engrossedin determining the possible outcomeof your efforts, even though it maynot be entirely in your hands. In sucha situation, Ganesha advises you tobe reasonable in your approach.

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Contrubutors to‘Frist Days Project’ Invited

In 1959, 18-year-old Tariq Abbas de-parted from Lahore and arrived in New YorkCity, en route to Dallas where he had beenplaced through the American Field Serviceforeign exchange program. Texas, he soonrealized, wasn’t exactly the America heimagined: “I only knew of New York… Ihad no idea, no concept of what to expector what I was going.”

In 1973, Mamata Misra left Mumbai forMaryland with her husband of six weeks, andcame to her own conclusions about the coun-try she had just adopted: “I realized that fordays and months I would be meeting onlystrangers talking strange and it was up tome to make friends out of strangers and cre-ate familiarity out of the unfamiliar.”

These two snapshots form a part of the“First Days Project,” a new initiative by theSouth Asian American Digital Archive(SAADA) to collect and share stories fromSouth Asians about their first day in theUnited States. An ambitious and interactiveonline exhibition, the First Days Project cre-ates a platform for community members toupload and share the story of their first dayin the U.S.

As Abbas and Misra’s stories illustrate, the first days in a new country can be full of bothexcitement and anxiety, a sense of loss and gain, and a mixture of other emotions. It was with thatin mind that SAADA Executive Director Samip Mallick began to imagine the First Days Project.“As the South Asian American community is starting to see its second and third generation in theU.S., it is imperative to begin to document these stories and provide a way for generations toconnect with each other,” Mallick explains. “Through interviewing my parents about their firstdays I learned something new about their experiences, hopes and dreams when first arriving inthis country.”

With the First Days Project, SAADA continues its longstanding effort to showcase storiesthat reflect the diversity of the South Asian diaspora. According to the 2010 census, there aremore than 3.4 million Americans of South Asian heritage, a growth in 81% between 2000 and2010. In other words, 1 in every 100 Americans traces their heritage to South Asia, whichincludes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives. Yet there isalso a critical danger in narratives of South Asian Americans being lost, particularly the onesleft out of history books and not featured in the media. Stories like Tariq Abbas and MamataMisra’s underscore just how diverse and complex the lives of South Asians in the U.S. havebeen. The First Days Project reveals the intimate details of arrival that are often lost in thegrand sweep of history.

First Day stories will be accepted through August 31, 2013 and can be submitted as video oraudio (up to 3 minutes) or text (up to 300 words). Submit your own story or interview a familymember or friend. No story is too big or too small.

You can browse stories, learn more and submit your story at www.saadigital archive.org/firstdaysBased in Philadelphia, the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) is the only indepen-dent nonprofit organization in the nation working to document the rich histories of South Asiansin the United States and ensuring that this community’s stories are protected and preserved forfuture generations.

All materials and stories that SAADA collects are made freely accessible to the public through itswebsite at www.saadigital archive.org

Samip Mallick