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...Human sacrifice has always been an anomaly in India. Even 200 years ago, when a boy was killed every day at a Kali temple in Calcutta, blood cults were at odds with a benign Hindu spiritualism that celebrates abstinence and vegetarianism. But Kali is different. A ferocious slayer of evil in Hindu mythology, the goddess is said to have an insatiable appetite for blood. With the law on killing people more strictly enforced today, ersatz substitutes now stand in for humans when sacrifice is required. Most Kali temples have settled on large pumpkins to represent a human body; other followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing for 'Mother' Kali | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...Kitty, 52, has a few dozen chickens and 4 hectares of mango, tamarind and oily mahua nut trees. On the rare occasions she has $20 to buy boxes of fruit, she sells bananas to passengers on the Calcutta Express at McCluskieganj railway station. It's hard to see how she earns enough to feed her four daughters. But it's almost impossible to imagine that when she was born inside these whitewashed walls, McCluskieganj was a paradise for mixed-race children of the British empire. What Kitty remembers most about the early days is the hope. The settlers' idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from India: No Place Like Home | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...Light Infantry regiment and the Pakistani troopers of the 15th Northern Division entrenched on opposite sides of Kashmir's Line of Control, the torrid weather made for itchy trigger fingers and an eagerness to join the battle--anything would be better than pointlessly sweltering in full battle gear. For Calcutta day laborers and Lahore rickshaw drivers, the unseasonably warm weather meant abandoning the bricklaying or cruising for fares and squatting in the shade of wilting bodhi or neem trees to chat and stoke their suspicion and hatred of their neighboring nation. And for the nations' leaders, India's Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf on the Spot | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Coincidentally, Stith informed me that her short-term plan for after graduation includes heading off to India next year to work for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. She has no plans to bring her motorcycle with her to India...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Riding With The Queen | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

...book about Mother Teresa a poem called “Anyway,” which comprised eight out of his 10 original “commandments.” The book attributed the poem to a sign on the wall of a children’s home in Calcutta where Mother Teresa spent time. “That was the hook…the credibility,” Keith says. “That was the door that was opening...

Author: By Debbie B. Doroshow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ripped Off by Mother Teresa | 5/2/2002 | See Source »

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