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When Sheetal Bhagat, already a stylish fixture on the nation's social pages, married Atulya Mafatlal in 2000, she joined one of India's oldest industrial families. But she never wanted to be just a trophy wife. Mafatlal has degrees in finance and law from Bombay and has also studied at Harvard. "I always wanted to go into something connected with fashion, not designing but running a conglomerate," says Mafatlal when we meet in London...
Graduates from India's prestigious technology universities get good jobs, make great money and are eagerly sought-after marriage partners. But according to Chetan Bhagat's charming debut novel Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, they end up in a Faustian bargain: students at the seven India Institutes of Technology sacrifice their youth for the sake of a successful adulthood...
...Bhagat's irreverence stops short of tearing down the ivory tower: all three of his main characters manage to graduate, and all seem poised to follow in the successful footsteps of the author himself, who graduated from New Delhi's IIT in 1995 and now works in Hong Kong for an investment bank. Bhagat was the mastermind of a website promoting the book, offering a monthly contest and his own e-mail address for fan letters. In that sense, even a critical alum like Bhagat makes IIT proud...
...Friday in Assam, 211 people were dead and 1.3 million were forced to shelter in 1,500 relief camps. In Bihar, 520 people were killed, half a million houses were destroyed and 5.2 million hectares flooded. Farmer Kapelshwar Bhagat, 30, saw 25 neighbors drown in a day, including his 62-year-old uncle who slipped into the torrent after trying to save his own son. Now, Bhagat's one-year-old daughter has cholera and he has only enough wheat to last his family two months. "We're told the floods won't drain from our fields until winter...
...there are rude customers," she says. Combine those factors with the 10-to 12-hour night shifts that Indian IT workers pull so they can stay in synch with U.S. daytime hours--India is 10 1/2 hours ahead of Eastern time--and "it reduces life to a vacuum," says Bhagat. "Where's the time to lead a normal existence...