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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)Sex Appeal and Cultural Liberty: A Feminist Inquiry into MTV India
This essay discusses findings from an ethnographic study of MTV India. After a brief feminist analysis of MTV India's content, the main body of the essay ......(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)Bully for Bollywood! The film industry in Bombay—nicknamed `Bollywood'—is bigger and busier than its counterpart in Los Angeles, but Americans
In a scenario derived from Agatha Christie, a murderer is bumping off the survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island. So what do these endangered ......(Continue Reading)
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