Word: communally
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...movie Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Indian writer-director Aparna Sen weaves a love story set against the backdrop of communal violence, the monkey that never leaves India's back. Iyer (played by Konkona Sensharma, Sen's daughter) and Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) seem to have nothing in common. She's an orthodox Hindu from South India, he's a liberal Muslim from West Bengal; she's married with a child, he's a single photographer. But their overnight bus journey through the hills of West Bengal draws them together. As violence erupts, a curfew is declared and they take shelter together...
...detail is one of her great strengths, and the film skillfully captures the characters' idiosyncrasies. In the end-like India itself-they pull through together, despite their differences. Yet Sen, who is Hindu, remains haunted by the real-world horrors she sees in today's India. "Scenes of communal hatred are not usually allowed in the movies," she says. "If you do portray it, then you are required to balance it out. And that's the sad part. In reality, it is not balanced. In the Bombay riots and in the Gujarat riots, it was all a pogrom against...
...loved the Signet Society and the communal table at the Harvard Faculty Club, she said...
...hundred thousand people attend the Harvard-Yale football game. How many police officers would it take to eliminate all communal sources of alcohol there?” she asked...
With all this practice, we’re damn good at applications. Two weeks ago at the writing courses introductory meeting, Professor Jorie Graham joked that Harvard students’ “greatest communal expertise is in filling out applications.” That’s good, because two months into next year’s fellowships, the lucky winners will have to start the application process all over again, this time from a foreign country...