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Ghosts in the city of widows: when their husbands die, devout indian women make the pilgrimage to Vrindavan, where they will pray for others, and await
Vrindavan is a city of widows, of ashrams, temples and Lodging-houses for the wasted women of India, whose husbands have died and whose children have ......(Continue Reading) In praise of vulgarity: How commercial culture liberates Islam—and the West
WHO WILL EVER forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another ......(Continue Reading)Monsoon Wedding: raining on tradition - Film As Text
IN MONSOON WEDDING (2001), director Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala 1998, Salaam Bombay! 1991) successfully entertains us with an over-the-top Indian wedding. She also presents some serious issues th...(Continue Reading)Bollywood
INDIAN cinema is unique. On average, 800 films are produced and distributed every year, that is more than two per day, and shown to 11,000,000 people ......(Continue Reading)The hole-in-the-wall computer: an Indian physicist puts a PC in a wall in the slums of New Delhi and watches what happens
Sugata Mitra has a PhD in physics and heads research efforts at New Delhi's NIIT, a fast-growing software and education company with sales of more than ......(Continue Reading)
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