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...player from working-class Sydney grew as he learned. He cultivated a deep passion and respect for the history and traditions of cricket, wrote a series of tour diaries that revealed a fascination with the way the world works, and built a children's home in Calcutta. By 1999, when he took over as Australian captain, he was one of the game's greats. His batting was never as flamboyant as West Indian Brian Lara's nor as sublime as Indian Sachin Tendulkar's, but his wicket had become the most prized in cricket. Other batsmen could take a bowling...
...know that mental illness is such a problem in a country as developed as Japan. Asia consists of the fastest-developing nations in the world, but what is the meaning of development if it has so many ill effects? I am sure the story will propel reform. Sanghita Chatterjee Calcutta...
...denunciations are normally diluted with words citing the cause behind terrorist activities, conveying a message of vague justification. Surely there are many Islamic scholars and clerics who do not believe that any part of the Koran preaches the killing of innocents, but they choose to be mute. Sujit Chakravarty Calcutta...
...Namesake, Lahiri’s much anticipated sophomore effort and first novel, tells the story of Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli, newlyweds from Calcutta who immigrate to Cambridge in the sixties and begin life anew. When their son is born, the couple anxiously awaits a letter from a grandmother that will decide the infant’s name, but the letter never arrives...
When asked about the origins of the novel, Lahiri said that it began with the name. A neighborhood boy in Calcutta, whom she had never actually met, was named Gogol, and she “filed [it] away” in her mind...