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...From the small Bengal village where he was born and raised to the larger academic communities of Trinity College and Harvard, Sen has maintained his ties to India while becoming one of the world's top economists...
That set Clinton off on an arc of good pictures and vibes, with visits to the Taj Mahal; to a village where dancing women showered him with flower petals; to a nature preserve, where the First Tourist saw two Bengal tigers; and, finally, after days of security-minded abstention, to his first plunge into a subcontinental rope line...
Everyone between southwest England and the Bay of Bengal had the same occupation last Wednesday--star gazing. Well, star-and-moon gazing, to be exact. But the last solar eclipse of the millennium wasn't all celestial. A roundup...
DIED. NIRAD CHAUDHURI, 101, Indian-born author critical of the New India promoted by Gandhi and Nehru; in Oxford, England. The Autobiography of the Unknown Indian (1951) cemented his reputation as an astute chronicler of the knotty relationship between England and India. Born into the Bengal Hindu aristocracy, he rued the decline of the Bengal Renaissance, a movement he hoped would establish India as the Western country of his dreams...
...FYROM (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). When she was seven, her father was murdered. Bojaxhiu chose emigration over political activism and at the age of 18 entered the Sisters of Loreto's convent in Ireland as a novice. The Sisters of Loreto, a teaching order, sent her to Bengal in 1929. She spoke broken English and had yet to take her first vows...