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...India has killed 100 people and has sent 300,000 others fleeing from the city where it originated. The country's entire medical-care apparatus has been put on red alert at the flare-up of the contagious, deadly disease to prevent its spread to the nearby megalopolis of Bombay. An outbreak this serious hasn't occurred in India in two decades...
...closest thing to a ringmaster -- a character at the center of the action -- is 59-year-old Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla. Born in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Daruwalla practices orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Every so often he puts in a stint at the Hospital for Crippled Children in Bombay, but it is not just these young patients who lure him back to India. The doctor has developed an interest in finding a genetic marker for a form of dwarfism; to pursue his research he must draw blood from dwarfs, and a good supply...
Irving gives his hero yet another reason for visiting India. Daruwalla is the secret screenwriter behind the Inspector Dhar movies, a wildly popular and controversial series featuring a sneering, tough-talking Western-style gumshoe. Every Dhar film offends some segment of Bombay's populace; the number of people who resent the main character has grown with each new release. Death threats have begun cropping up among the hate mail. The actor who plays Dhar bears a complicated and secret relationship to Daruwalla, and also has an identical twin, separated at birth, who knows nothing of his locally infamous brother...
...gathered in London for the 54th birthday of the eldest sister, Sara Goode, a London banker. Gorgeous Teitelbaum, a radio talk show host and housewife, is leading the Newton Temple Beth-El Sisterhood on a tour of London. The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, is a travel writer just in from Bombay. Also attending the birthday dinner are Sara's rebellious cliche of a daughter Tess, Tess' improbable Lithuanian resistance fighter boyfriend Tom, and Pfeni's bisexual boyfriend Geoffrey. A stuffed shirt Englishperson makes a brief appearance but he is mainly there as contrast to Mervyn, the lovable faux furrier from Brooklyn...
...Crimson faced both matches missing three important players, according to Head Coach Bill Doyle. Harvard's top-ranked player, Adrian Ezra '94, is currently in Bombay defending his Indian national championship, while two others were out with injuries...