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...Bhagat could have written a postgraduation sequel (his fans still ask for one) but instead he tried to get closer to the average young Indian by setting his second book, One Night @ the Call Center, in a workplace familiar to many of them. In his most recent novel, released in May, he ventured out to the provinces, following three cricket-mad friends who start a business in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Entitled The Three Mistakes of My Life, the book has already sold 500,000 copies, thanks to a text that is accessible to readers whose first language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techie Lit: India's New Breed of Fiction | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...President Bush, he is a person who shoots from the hip, invites conflict and sees compromise as a sign of weakness rather than a path to progress. His impulsiveness has been evident this fall in rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with intelligence, composure, discipline and restraint. Robert J. Inlow, Charlottesville, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...Well, yes, sir. We call that Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...President Bush, he is a person who shoots from the hip, invites conflict and sees compromise as a sign of weakness rather than a path to progress. His impulsiveness has been evident this fall in rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with intelligence, composure, discipline and restraint. Robert J. Inlow, CHARLOTTESVILLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

Cutler and Mankiw also agreed that the gasoline tax holiday—which McCain and Hillary Clinton supported but Obama opposed—was an ill-advised proposal. Cutler called it “terrible” and Mankiw called it a “crazy populist idea.” Mankiw said he gives Obama “a lot of credit” for resisting the call to suspend...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Panel Focuses On Policy Similarities | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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