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Article: Academic vows to bring Bali, India closer

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September 1, 2006
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New Delhi, Sep 1 -- An Indian professor living in Bali is spearheading efforts to bring the overwhelmingly Hindu Indonesian island and India closer with a string of events covering everything from religion to Bollywood.

Somvir, 35, has brought together a team of eminent Indonesians and Indians to form the Bali-India Foundation, which will promote academic and student exchanges besides spiritual tourism, teach yoga, Hindi, Sanskrit and Balinese languages, and help the people of Bali to know India better.

It also plans to satisfy the growing appetite in Bali for Bollywood's pulsating dance numbers. In the process, the Foundation hopes to supplement the work of the Indian Cultural Centre in ...

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