Eye on India Cultural Festival: Spice Up Your Culinary Skills

Looking to be the next MasterChef?

NetIP Chicago hosts the cuisine segment of the Eye on India Festival. Join us in Naveen’s Kitchen as he prepares a scrumptious meal with six different dishes that pleases the taste glands and educates the Chicago community about spices and herbs in the Indian culture.

Naveen Sacchar, our culinary host, has loved the flavors, spices, freshness, and simplicity of Asian cooking ever since he was a young boy growing up in Northern India. Because his father was an Army officer and was posted to a new town every two to three years, he had the opportunity to experience cuisines from diverse areas of India where language, lifestyle, culture, and foods vary widely from region to region. Chef Naveen will teach the audience how to prepare six different culinary treats while engaging audience members to assist in preparing and cooking each dish. Samples will be passed around throughout the event so that each participant can enjoy the food.

The event is BYOB so come ready to eat, drink, and have fun!

When: Sunday, July 17 – 6:30 PM
Where: Naveen’s Cusine
Cost: $40
Register Now!

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NetIP announces the official conference book club pick: India Calling

Participate in the first ever NetIP Conference Book Club! Join your local chapter in reading India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking by Anand Giridharadas.

Anand Giridharadas will deliver a keynote address at the NetIP Conference and conduct a book signing. You can purchase a copy of India Calling here!

Reversing his parents’ immigrant path, a young American-born writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new.

Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane from America prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, “We’re all trying to go that way,” pointing to the rear. “You, you’re going this way?”

Giridharadas was returning to the land of his ancestors, amid an unlikely economic boom. But he was interested less in its gold rush than in its cultural upheaval, as a new generation has sought to reconcile old traditions and customs with new ambitions and dreams.

In “India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking,” Giridharadas brings to life the people and the dilemmas of India today, through the prism of his émigré family history and his childhood memories of India. He introduces us to entrepreneurs, radicals, industrialists, and religious seekers, but, most of all, to Indian families. He shows how parents and children, husbands and wives, cousins and siblings are reinventing relationships, bending the meaning of “Indianness,” and enduring the pangs of the old birthing the new.

Through their stories, and his own, he paints an intimate portrait of a country becoming modern while striving to remain itself.

About the author:

Anand Giridharadas, is an American writer and newspaper columnist. He also serves as an analyst for CNN and CBC Radio. Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Giridharadas has since resided in Cleveland, Paris and Maryland. He studied the history of political thought at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. After college, he moved to Mumbai in 2003, where he worked as a consultant for the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. He has written pieces for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In 2008 he was promoted to columnist at The New York Times. In addition, he serves as an active lecturer, panelist and moderator at universities, the United Nations and private companies. In 2011, he released his first book ”India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation’s Remaking.”  He has recently appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has also been featured on NPR.

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Join us TONIGHT as we talk to Food Network’s Aarti Sequeira!

Aarti Sequeira of Aarti Paarti an internet cooking show that takes viewers on a playful romp through her tiny Los Angeles kitchen, where her childhood in Dubai, her Indian heritage and her culinary coming-of-age in California are braided together into budget-friendly, quick and easy recipes every week.

Kaplan presents Road to Business School

Kaplan cordially invites NetIP on the Road to Business School.

Overview

2010 was the inaugural year for the Road to Business School. Here are a few highlights from last year’s 7-city series:

• The series had 4,489 total registrants and 2,260 attendees.
• Show rate was strong at 50% (counting walk-ins as shows).
• Candidate mix: of the registrants, 49% were new to the Kaplan database, and 51% were preexisting in the database. Those figures indicate a good mix of candidates for all organizations co-marketing the series.
• Demographics: Attendees were 42% female, 17% international, and 56% non-white, with 9% African American and 9% Hispanic. These figures – and also the fact that 83% were working and 17% were in school – highlight that the events drew the right balance of young professionals and of the demographic groups that are key recruiting targets.
• Schools: 67 U.S. and international business schools participated in last year’s series including Chicago Booth, Cornell (Johnson), Duke (Fuqua), Harvard, INSEAD (Paris), MIT (Sloan), NYU (Stern) and Yale to name a few. To view the full list, click here.

In 2011 the event has expanded to 11 cities from August 4^th – 23^th

Kaplan will host live web-based events that can be accessed globally. The list of participating schools has already surpassed that of 2010 school list and again features the top b-schools around the world.

Marketing for the 2011 series will reach 5,000 prospective business school students throughout the world and through a variety of channels, including Kaplan’s database marketing, young professional organizations in all participating cities, social media channels (through Kaplan and partners), college campus organizations, online ads, and public advertising in some areas.

Click here to learn more.

VIP Pass to the worlds BIGGEST MBA Fair!!

EXCLUSIVE OFFER for NetIP Members and Associates: You’re invited to attend the QS World MBA and Grad School Tour this fall for FREE…

Secure your place now and get one step closer to your ideal MBA or Grad program.

Registrants will be able to do the following on the day:

• Speak directly to admissions directors from the world’s top schools, colleges and universities about all things MBA or Grad related
• Apply for over $1.2m worth of exclusive QS scholarships to help fund your education
• Discuss the common do’s and don’ts of applications
• Participate in discussions with national and international MBA and Grad school admissions officers, directors and alums
• Network with fellow applicants and alumni
• Sit in panel discussions with alumni from Harvard, Wharton, Columbia and NYU-Stern
• Attend a GMAT or GRE seminar with a leading test prep
• Get all the relevant info about career opportunities after your program

All this and so much more… only at the world’s BIGGEST MBA and GRAD fairs

To register for the QS World MBA Tour click here to activate your complimentary VIP admission.

The QS World Grad School Tour VIP Pass can be activated by registering here.