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...Rajiv Gandhi, India's Congress Party took the path of least resistance last week: it tapped an uncontroversial party stalwart to serve as the nation's Prime Minister. P.V. Narasimha Rao, 70, who has a heart condition, became the unanimous choice of party legislators after his main rival, Bombay politician Sharad Pawar, 50, withdrew his candidacy for the nation's top post in the name of party unity...
...India, the going rate for a kidney from a live donor is $1,500; for a cornea, $4,000; for a patch of skin, $50. Two centers of the thriving kidney trade are Bombay, where private clinics cater to Indians and a foreign clientele dominated by wealthy Arabs, and Madras, a center for patients from Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Renal patients in India and Pakistan who cannot find a relative to donate a kidney are permitted to buy newspaper advertisements offering living donors up to $4,300 for the organ. Mohammad Aqeel, a poor Karachi tailor who recently sold...
Beyond that, he was virtually one of Midnight's Children, the generation that came into the world on the eve of hard-won independence from the British Empire in 1947. After Rajiv was born in a Bombay hospital in August 1944, Nehru, then a political prisoner, wrote that when "a new birth is intimately connected with us, it becomes a revival of ourselves, and our old hopes center round it." In an important way, the old hopes of India's founding fathers also exploded on May 22, 1991. The desperation of the hour was vividly illustrated by the Congress Party...
Such a Long Journey follows the daily life of one Gustad Noble, a decent, good-natured Zoroastrian living in Bombay during the early 1970s. At home, he is caught up in the feuds and conspiracies of apartment buildings everywhere. At work, he enjoys the rowdy camaraderie of his Zoroastrian friends, singing Roamin' in the Gloamin' in the bank canteen and entertaining one another with ribald tales...
...people with such care and understanding that their trials become our tragedies. He sees the blighted ideals in objects, and the hopes in superstitions. He gives a voice, and poignant face, to all the people in the street. Ultimately, he makes corruption intimate, and the warm commotion of Bombay as sad as the death of the man next door...