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...tempting to trace this never-look-back attitude to Nair's childhood. She was born into a middle-class civil servant's family in Bhubaneswar, a dirt-poor city in eastern India that is usually given a wide berth by tourists. "Even in Indian terms, it's really remote," she says. Nair was also, she claims, an unwanted child?or, as she puts it, a "contraceptual blunder." In 1957 the Indian government was worried about its exploding population, and her father, a senior bureaucrat, had sworn to limit the family to the two sons they already had. He sent...
Nair grew up in Bhubaneswar, India, 300 miles south of Calcutta, and later studied film at Harvard. These days she lives mostly in New York City (she teaches at Columbia University) and Kampala, Uganda (her husband Mahmood Mamdani is a native). But her connection to Thackeray is long-standing. "I've actively loved this novel since I was 16," she says. The broad strokes of India in the film, she adds defensively, are mostly from Thackeray, who spent his early childhood in what was then a British colony. "My criterion for doing something is, Can I think of anyone else...
...CONVICTED. Dara Singh, 40, along with 12 accomplices; for the 1999 murders of Australian missionary Graham Staines, 58, and his two sons, aged 12 and 8; in Bhubaneswar, India. In January 1999, Singh, allegedly a member of the pro-Hindu youth group Bajrang Dal, led a mob that surrounded the Jeep containing the three sleeping Staineses and burned them alive...
Unlike the people who populate her frames, Nair has always enjoyed a strong sense of who she is and where she belongs. The daughter of a government administrator, she grew up comfortably in Bhubaneswar, a small city in eastern India. At boarding school she became a serious theater student and discovered the work of avant-garde British director Peter Brook...
...typical of the proud, stubborn, courageous Indira Gandhi that she hated to wear a bulletproof vest and rarely agreed to do so. Certainly she was a fatalist. The night before her death, she had told a large, enthusiastic crowd in Orissa's capital city, Bhubaneswar, "I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation...