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...have also been celebrated this year. Thirty-five of Cannes' veteran auteurs have contributed three-minute filmettes to a compilation called Chacun Son Cinéma (To Each His Own Cinema). The theme is the movie theater. Predictably and poignantly, these brief movies are mostly nostalgic evocations of a communal film experience that may vanish in the face of audience-segmenting multiplex cinemas and the continued development of home-entertainment technology. If the old-fashioned tradition of cinemagoing is to continue, in fact, it may be only in places like Cannes that the great smorgasbord of the movie world seems...
...they are barely aware of current events or the forces that shape the American opinion. Access to television will help alleviate the isolation inside the infamous “Harvard bubble.” Another criticism of television in dorm rooms is that it would detract from the communal experience of gathering in common rooms. But strangers do not meet in common rooms to bond over commercial breaks. They merely share awkward moments when one person treks to the basement for a basketball game while the next one fancies Jack Bauer. Most students do not wish to be disturbed...
...Bandukwala, a physics professor in Gujarat, a western state torn by bloody communal riots in 2002, has long campaigned against religious extremism and for moderation and debate. While he sees progress, in part because of the rising middle class in India, Bandukwala says "on religious issues people get very quickly built up in this part of the world. If anybody wants to create a problem they just have to insult an iconic figure or plant a bomb and you see the results." In some ways, he says, "it's remarkable that India has evolved into a mature democracy after just...
...know a new India over the past few years, a place of outsourcing and hi-tech start-ups, of software engineers and steel barons. We expect such places to be shiny and secular and scientific, focused on technological breakthroughs and making money. We don't expect religious riots and communal clashes and bombings. In India, full of paradoxes and wonderful, frustrating inconsistencies, you have both: hi-tech business parks and age-old religious grudges; software savvy alongside sectarian brutality. Resolving those contradictions may well decide India's future...
...reveals its private self. Behind the blinding economic razzle-dazzle and throngs of striving entrepreneurs, the city is defined by its intimate sense of neighborhood, what Girard calls its "lived-in-ness." Walk Shanghai's alleyways at night and inhale the smell of braised pork wafting out of a communal kitchen, hear the slap of a shuttlecock struck by a pajama-clad girl, catch a glimpse of a chandelier in a threadbare bedroom-once part of a ballroom in some silk merchant's mansion, now subdivided to house a dozen families. Yet I know this Shanghai-my Shanghai, Girard...