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...Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, a swampy archipelago in the Indian state of West Bengal, which has by way of tourist attraction the dual charms of man-eating tigers and cyclonic storms. Wading into the marshlands are Piya, an Indian-American marine biologist looking for a rare dolphin that might inhabit its waters, and Kanai, a bored rake from Delhi on the lookout for a more common sort of catch?a lonely American. Things go topsy-turvy for Kanai when Piya decides her search for the dolphin will need the expert guidance of Fokir, a silent, brooding local...
...delicate that only the section directly under the fork rises. The finest Kakori may be found at Tundey Ke, a Lucknow hole-in-the-wall started in the 19th century by a one-armed chef. My personal favorite is served at Sonargaon, the restaurant in Calcutta's Taj Bengal Hotel. You'll pay less than $10 for a taste of heaven...
...delicate that only the section directly under the fork rises. The finest Kakori may be found at Tundey Ke, a Lucknow hole-in-the-wall started in the 19th century by a one-armed chef. My personal favorite is served at Sonargaon, the restaurant in Calcutta's Taj Bengal Hotel. You'll pay less than $10 for a taste of heaven...
...strengths might prove useless unless its political leaders stop fighting among themselves and start reining in the fundamentalists?while there is still time. Says security expert Ibrahim: "Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia must meet at once and start talking, before this country sinks into the Bay of Bengal...
...places is the crisis more apparent than South Asia. Here, every June to September, bulging rain clouds drawn in by the back draft of India's scorching summer roll in off the Bay of Bengal, prick themselves on the Himalayas and disgorge the monsoon. This year, the rains have been unusually concentrated. In Nepal, a nation that has felled 60% of its forests in just 40 years, the waters gushed from the mountains in flash floods. By the end of last week, 255 km of roads, 76 bridges, 61 schools and 220 people had been swept away. The water then...