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...tedious prime-time mini-series instead of what it is: a delicate, moving first novel. It begins in Cambridge, Mass., with the birth of a son to the Gangulis, an Indian couple who recently arrived in America. New England seems a chilly dreamworld to them compared with their native Calcutta. "Ashoke and Ashima live the lives of the extremely aged," Lahiri writes, "those for whom everyone they once knew and loved is lost, those who survive and are consoled by memory alone...
...Lady Macbeth role is played with intoxicating seductiveness by Tabu-but more often they depict a complex and suffocating code of behavior condemning women to second-class status or worse. Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali, A Passion Play, based on the Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury; the whispered commands and concerns of her keepers clang like a judge's death sentence. Ghosh...
...planning [July 14]. But let us not forget that Americans are inexperienced in the business of colonizing and ruling a country other than their own. How can they handle Iraq? Give the job to the British and the French, who have centuries of experience in this field. Sujit Chakravarty Calcutta...
Copyrighted. The name of Mother Teresa, the nun and Nobel laureate who died in 1997 after a life of caring for the poor and the sick; by the order of nuns she founded, the Missionaries of Charity; in Calcutta. The nuns said they sought the rights to Mother Teresa's name, the name of their order and its rosary-encircled globe logo to prevent them from being exploited by commercial interests...
...drafted a moderate Hindu leader to come up with a compromise to one of the longest-running flash points in Indian politics?the decades-old dispute over whether a Hindu temple should be built at a site in Ayodhya where a mosque once stood. The Telegraph newspaper in Calcutta ran the front-page headline hard as diamond, soft as flowers over a picture of a bare-chested Vajpayee depicted as Ram, a Hindu god. One of Vajpayee's detractors on the Hindu right admits, "It is accepted by one and all that Vajpayee is a total win-win man today...