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Zakir Hussain Concert

SAN FRANCISCO

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain will perform along with sarod exponent Aasish Khan at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater.

The October 10 event will start at 5 pm. The Theater is located at 701 Mission St, San Francisco.

Tickets: Preferred Seats, $ 30, $ 20, and $ 12 (students with ID).

For details on tickets and event, call the Center at (415)-978-ARTS. Preferred seats, do contact Harmoni at (925) 828-6127.

Tickets are also available at the Sri Emporium, Concord (925)-686-2162, Dulhan Fashion House, Fremont, (510)-794-1391 and India Spice House, Dublin (925) 551-5332.

AAHOA Conferences in SC, Atlanta

FLORENCE, South Carolina

Reinventing Hotel Operations: Strategy for the Next Millennium is the subject of a conference to be held here on October 7 and in Atlanta the next day.

Organized by the Asian American Hotel Owners Association, the free event will feature several AAHOA leaders including Ramesh Surati, the chairman, Bhakulesh 'Bugsy' Patel, vice-chairman, and Dhansukh 'Dan' Patel, the secretary.

It will be held at City County Civic Center at One Civic Plaza Drive, 5300 West Radio Drive; (843) 679-9417.

The events will start at 9 am. In Atlanta, the conference is at Cobb Galerina Center at Two Gallerina Parkway; (770) 955-8000.

For information, contact AAHOA at (408) 816-5759.

Big Names at Ayurveda Conference

NEW YORK

Vasant Lad, the founder of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque in New Mexico, will join several top Ayurvedic practitioners and manufacturers of Ayurvedic products at a two-day seminar to be held here on October 30 and 31 at the Florence Gould Hall at French Institute.

Ayurveda for the 21st Century: New Paradigms for Health is being organized by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Among the participants are best-selling author Dr Deepak Chopra and skin-care expert Pratima Raichur. Dr David Mathis of the George Washington University Medical School and Dr Shrikant Mishra of USC School of Medicine, Los Angeles, will also speak at the conference.

The fee for the conference and lunch is $ 345 for those register by September 30 and $ 395 thereafter. For BVB members, students and seniors, it is $ 300.

For more information, contact the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan at (212) 989-8383.

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Information and photographs can also be mailed to Betty Pais at 87-52 108th Street, 2nd Floor, Richmond Hill, NY 11418-2229, USA.

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