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...being a Red Sox fan brings out the Satan in all of us. The next door neighbor, who frequently travels to Calcutta to assist Mother Teresa, can only speak in four-letter words in the month of October. And in the fall of 1986, everything reached a peak, at least...
...TENSE DAYS, IT SEEMED AS IF THE "Black Friday" bombings that had rocked Bombay on March 12 and killed 317 would proliferate. A U.S. intelligence report warned that New Delhi could be the next target. Then, just after midnight last Wednesday, a blast shook the center of Calcutta. Two 100- year-old tenement buildings collapsed into rubble. This time 86 people died. And again, on Friday, an explosion at a Calcutta train station killed four. Police, however, discounted a link with Bombay's synchronized explosions of 13 high-tech bombs, saying the first Calcutta tragedy was caused by the accidental...
...great capitals of the past. By the turn of the century, there will be 21 "megacities" with populations of 10 million or more. Of these, 18 will be in developing countries, including some of the poorest nations in the world. Mexico City already has 20 million people and Calcutta 12 million. According to the World Bank, some of Africa's cities are growing by 10% a year, the swiftest rate of urbanization ever recorded...
...Muslims -- roughly 12% of India's population of 870 million -- and ignited the gravest crisis in India since the religious massacres that followed independence in 1947. Muslim and Hindu mobs armed with knives, hatchets and fire bombs attacked each other's houses of worship, homes and people in Bombay, Calcutta and other cities. A semiofficial death count topped 1,000, though the true toll was believed to be much higher. Muslim mobs burned Hindu temples and homes in the neighboring, predominantly Islamic countries of Pakistan and Bangladesh; more than 30 people were killed in Pakistan. Even in far-off Britain...
...plot revolves around Dr. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze), who goes to India in search of "enlightenment" at an Ashram near Calcutta. Frustrated by his career in America, he yearns to "find himself." Instead he finds himself stranded in Calcutta, robbed of his money and passport, where he accidentally encounters Hazari, a poor Indian farmer masterfully played by Om Puri. Hazari has a family--a wife, Kamla (Shabana Azmi), two sons and a daughter. Hazari pulls a rickshaw for a living, under the auspices of the Landlord--known as the Godfather to the tenants--and his merciless son, Ashok. The story...