The unsettling discovery that you have fewer pesos than you anticipated can happen often for students living on a tight budget in Buenos Aires. Monetary dilemmas, such as where to eat lunch or do laundry cheaply and how to save for a weekend trip or a night out with friends constantly haunt the student without […]
Archives for September 2012
Free Concert in Support of Hospital Borda
Tomorrow there will be a free rock concert in support of the psychiatric hospital El Borda in the Barracas neighborhood. The headlining act will be Bersuit Vergarabat, one of Argentina’s most popular rock bands, who have long demonstrated solidarity with the patients of El Borda, often playing in hospital pajamas. The show will kick off […]
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: The ‘Less Stress’ Guru
Who is the bearded guy whose placid, smiling face greeted stress-out workers on the huge posters of the subway platforms of Buenos Aires in recent weeks? A closer inspection of the publicity spots reveal it to be Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of India’s leading spiritual gurus and marketing geniuses of today. ‘Sri’ is an […]
Buenos Aires: ‘Getting Spiritual’ with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If any city in the world is ripe for some spiritual diddling to sooth its weary soul, it’s Buenos Aires. Enter Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a guru-cum-businessman who will lead a meditation session in Palermo tomorrow before an expected audience of 100,000 people. Not to be confused with the world-famous sitar player of the same […]