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...never existed," says the agent Chatterjee. She describes them as "college and high school students, the under-25s, whom we all liked to believe would rather buy a pizza or go disco-dancing than spend money on a book." But they will buy books relevant to their own lives. Amitabha Bagchi, author of another IIT novel, Above Average, says young Indians want to read about themselves "not entirely as an act of narcissism but also as part of a process of adapting to, and learning to live in, a social milieu that is evolving faster than most people can comprehend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techie Lit: India's New Breed of Fiction | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...word pairi-daeza, or enclosure, the origin of our word paradise). As Sakyamuni, the Buddha of our cosmos, teaches, if the denizens of Sukhavati "desire cloaks of different colors and many hundred thousand colors, then with these very best cloaks the whole Buddha country shines." Presided over by the Amitabha Buddha, Sukhavati, according to the ancient texts, had no ghosts, no beasts, no sickness--and no women. Yet those who reach the Pure Land, as East Asian Buddhists call it, know the journey of their souls is not over. Wrote a 6th century Chinese master: "Although they dwell in seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OTHER FAITHS, OTHER VISIONS | 3/24/1997 | See Source »

...portrait of Ho--the same that appeared in the first-year facebook--sat in front of the 20-year-old biology concentrator's coffin, in front of a portrait of Amitabha, the buddha for the afterlife...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Friends, Family Remember Ho at Buddhist Funeral | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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