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They found a populace unhappy not just with being tallied but grumbling over how they were counted. Prostitutes were outraged that they had been categorized as beggars, so too were jailed criminals, smugglers and the all-important makers of rotgut liquor. (Census officials say it's because their jobs contribute...
Behind the hype is an eloquent, lyrical tale. The House of Blue Mangoes (Weidenfield & Nicolson/Viking; 416 pages) is the sweeping story of a southern Indian family, spanning a half-century from 1899 to 1947. Against the backdrop of the British Raj, two world wars and the struggle for independence, it...
But if you're going to eat meat, there's no real reason the internal organs, properly cooked, should be any less clean than regular meat. After all, at least those parts of the animal don't touch the soil or grass. For that matter, a piece of cabbage, seeing...
Even worse is the new caste system: half the teams are out of the running on opening day. They cannot compete financially. Minnesota and Montreal and Kansas City and Florida are minor league teams. They don't just play like minor league teams. They function like them. As soon as...
In 1992 Kavita Srivastava, then 30, was a sociologist working in a government-supported program in Rajasthan state devoted to raising awareness among rural women about their legal and social rights. Srivastava, whose previous exposure to rural life had come entirely through train windows, believed she was making real progress...