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...summoned to tea by the local Taliban commander, Mohammed Haqqani. Along with his bodyguards and a Taliban judge, Haqqani is fiddling with a radio, trying to reach the BBC's Pushtu service. He finds it in time to hear that the Taliban have driven the Northern Alliance out of Maidanshahr, south of Kabul. They all beam and cheer; it reminds me a little of watching the annual Lions football game back home...
...movement and his own dim prospects for survival. From an undisclosed location, Omar broadcast messages predicting his death in battle and naming Mullah Baradar, a former governor in Herat who commanded Taliban troops in Kabul, his successor. Early in the week he gave an interview to the bbc's Pashtu news service in which he predicted "the destruction of America. If Allah's help is with us, this will happen within a short period of time...
...response to questions about the Bush administration’s plans to continue bombing through Ramadan, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld was quoted by the BBC last week as saying, “Our task is certainly to be sensitive to the views of the region, but also to [make the world] see that we aggressively deal with the terrorist networks that exist.” American officials repeat that interrupting the military offensive even for a few days during Ramadan does not make military sense. But hasn’t the United States already made its military point...
...next section follows Willie to the West. He aims for Canada, home country of the missionaries who educated him in India. He ends up in England, where he studies, struggles to overcome his sexual awkwardness, and eventually begins a career as an unrecognized writer and BBC script-man. Ultimately, his efforts at fiction are little more than transparent cribbing of Hollywood stories, redone to fit Indian contexts...
...production marks the stage premiere of Grave Affairs, a radio play written six years ago for the BBC by co-director John Mathew. The play takes place in the fictitious village of Matoor, in the real district of Kerala at the tip of southwest India. Matoor’s population includes people of widely varying religious faiths—Hindus, Muslims and Christians—an assortment that makes for insecure relations and latent hostilities, not to mention some interesting graveyards...