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...collection of essays, interviews and short fiction, In Search of Sita, looks at every angle of this complex figure. Sita is a paragon of chastity and beauty but also courage, surviving a trial by fire (the agni pariksha) to prove her faithfulness to her husband Rama. (See pictures of India's history...
...Karunanidhi (MK) in Iruvar; more terrorism in Del Se; the Sri Lankan war in Kannathil Muthamittal. He is also fascinated with powerful figures in the Mumbai Mafia. Nayakan attached the structure of The Godfather to the career of gang lord Varadarajan Mudaliar, and Ratnam revisited the underworld in Agni Nakshatram and Thalapathi...
...three days later, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes further ratcheted up the belligerence when he bragged, "We can take a [nuclear] bomb or two or more, but when we respond there will be no Pakistan." He followed up by having a short-range version of India's nuclear-capable Agni missile test-fired...
Medium-range Agni II--2,000+-km range/1,000-kg payload
...INDIA Message to Pakistan? Amid a tense political standoff with Pakistan, India again test-fired a nuclear-capable Agni ballistic missile. India attributed the timing of the test - just before Republic Day, its biggest national holiday - to "technical" factors. Pakistan called the move "prejudicial to the pursuit of stability in our region," which has been on a war footing since the December attack on India's Parliament, blamed on Pakistani militants. As troops traded shots in Kashmir, four policemen were killed at a U.S. cultural center in Calcutta and a bomb exploded near the British High Commission in Islamabad...