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...graduate of the University of Bombay's business school, Kallapur is one of only a handful of instructors to lead a Harvard economics course before earning a doctoral degree...
Kallapur received a masters in business administration at the University of Bombay. But he says he aspired to the classroom, not the boardroom. So he left India to pursue...
...world is exactly Salman Rushdie's Indian characters passively seat- belted in their flight from Bombay to London, then blown apart by a random, idiot bomb and soon seen pinwheeling down to a soft landing off the English coast -- the England where Kipling comes home to roost and the empire will implode and intermingle...
...campaigns against Islam." The statement was accompanied by a Polaroid photograph of the three American hostages, Alann Steen, Robert Polhill and Jesse Turner, who were kidnaped from the campus of Beirut University College more than two years ago. But the communique made no new threats against their lives. In Bombay, 10,000 anti-Rushdie protesters rampaged through the streets until police moved in. When the rioters would not disperse, the police opened fire, killing 13 and injuring more than...
Resentment toward the novel and its Bombay-born writer has been building among Muslims for several months, and at least 15 persons have died in violent riots in India and Pakistan, where the book has been banned since its publication several months ago. Many Muslims believe that it defames both the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed and that it portrays the twelve wives of the Prophet as prostitutes...