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...money, having persuaded New Age guru Deepak Chopra to help him set up Gotham Studios Asia, a business that will bring comic-book heroes such as Spider-Man and Batman to India, with new story lines in which brown-skinned superheroes battle figures from Indian myths in places like Calcutta. Kapur says he sold Chopra on the idea by telling him "that in five years we will notice a cultural change in the world, where Western pop culture will start to stagnate and a hybrid form of culture that is more Eastern in nature will begin to take center stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Numbers Man | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...have fired the imagination of generations of young children whose loving parents call them princes and princesses. What will happen to the bedtime fairy tales that send them to sleep and generate sweet dreams? With no Kings and Queens, princes and princesses, fairy tales will die. Lokendra Nath Roychoudhury Calcutta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

...have fired the imagination of generations of young children whose loving parents call them princes and princesses. What will happen to the bedtime fairy tales that send them to sleep and generate sweet dreams? With no kings and queens, princes and princesses, fairy tales will die. Lokendra Nath Roychoudhury Calcutta, India The British royal family should have let Charles propose to Camilla right from the onset. Broken hearts, broken families and unnecessary death would have been avoided. If it had not been for Charles' on-and-off affair with Camilla, he would not have been separated or divorced from Diana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

...people looked, and he insisted on going everywhere and "seeing" everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer R.K. Narayan, and Indira Gandhi's political fall and resurrection. His masterpiece is a long essay on Calcutta called "The City of Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair of the city, which ends with Mehta's quietly following Mother Teresa as she walks through a lepers' colony. At their best, his articles and essays throb with unforgettable details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Return to Exile | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...manner. Willowy of frame, stout of spirit and compassionate of heart, she naturally possesses the qualities shared by the best photojournalists. But even by the standards of that difficult craft, the assignment she imposed on herself a few years ago was formidable. She would live in the brothels of Calcutta, India, and record the lives of their inhabitants, particularly the prostitutes' children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Sins of the Mothers | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

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