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Hubka, who has worked the homeless in the U.S., said her upcoming project will focus on pavement-dwellers in Bombay, India...
Merchant, who received an Oscar nomination for best short film when he was only 21, said he was inspired to go into film-making when he saw "Somebody Up There Likes You," starring Paul Newman during his childhood in Bombay, India...
Over the past 15 years, India has become the world's largest reservoir of live kidney donors. In the 1980s the trade was centered in Bombay, but after a crackdown it spread to other areas, specifically the Madras suburb of Villivakkam, popularly known as ``Kidneyvakkam.'' Several thousand people living in abject poverty in Villivakkam have sold their kidneys. In a typical instance, Rani Saravanan said she had decided to have a kidney removed to obtain cash to feed her family and pay debts...
Whether the new federal law will put an end to the traffic in human organs is uncertain. Bombay urologist Berjor Colobawalla, who has campaigned against the practice, notes that ``the federal government has reacted to public pressure, but unless local authorities are serious about enforcing this law, the trade will go on clandestinely.'' Bangalore police say two investigators will go to Saudi Arabia to gather evidence, specifically by interviewing organ recipients. By Jefferson Penberthy/New Delhi. Reported by Anita Pratap/Bangalore
Ezra comes to Cambridge from London, where he moved after living in Bombay for 14 years. Bilimoria, hails from Bombay and was a childhood friend and squash partner of Ezra's. Blumberg hails from Victoria, British Columbia...