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DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian actor who appeared in some 250 films over 60 years; in Bombay. A law school graduate, Kumar rose to stardom in the megahit Achhut Kanya (1936) playing a young Brahmin who falls in love with a low-caste woman.
Sir Vidiadhar is also a great prose stylist and innovator. In The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, he has evolved a signature blend of autobiography, artifice and journalism that tests (even by today's liberal definitions) the limits of conventional fiction. Half A Life (Knopf; 211...
The narrative, broken into three thinly-connected chapters, begins with an explanation of Willie’s name. His Brahmin father narrates the twisted trajectory of his own adolescent rebellion in India. To spite his family and his caste, Willie’s father becomes a sadhu, or ascetic holy...
SOUTH AFRICA Politics Clouds a Conference on Racism A meeting designed to promote racial tolerance was in danger of achieving the opposite as protests over the Middle East overshadowed early proceedings. The U.N. World Conference Against Racism drew 6,000 delegates from 130 countries to Durban, but the U.S. agreed...
In the end, though, the debate is shaped by the old divides of North and South. It's easy for Westerners to be smug and self-satisfied, having convinced themselves that they've eliminated racism. But for the most part, the powerful industrialized nations have not been racism's victims...