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...opposing Telangana's secession have paralyzed much of the state. Trains have been blocked, businesses shut down. According to news reports on Saturday, two activists in favor of a "united Andhra" took their lives in protest of the state's splitting. The turmoil has also plunged Hyderabad, a booming, cosmopolitan I.T. hub, into panic as politicians and business leaders fret over the costs of the current instability. "This will be a total flop as investors will flee," says Amruthraj Padmanabhundi, a 27-year-old I.T. professional in Hyderabad. "I am very worried [about] my prospects slipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Rule India: Break It Into More Pieces? | 12/13/2009 | See Source »

...stake in the balloting. Coakley would provide Democrats with a critical 60th aye vote, preserving the party's filibuster-proof majority - a fact that Brown (who began the race perhaps best known for the good looks that landed him a 1982 "America's Sexiest Man" centerfold in Cosmopolitan) has emphasized throughout the campaign. Though Massachusetts has not sent a Republican to the Senate in nearly four decades, animus over the proposed bill has helped Brown erase the double-digit lead Coakley enjoyed as recently as earlier this month. The state attorney general, Coakley, 56 - who would be Massachusetts' first female...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Candidate Martha Coakley | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Washington Monday to represent an India emerging as a cosmopolitan economic powerhouse, his Parliament sent an ugly reminder that the world's largest democracy has a dark side: both chambers of India's Parliament have had to be adjourned repeatedly over the past two days amid a furor over leaked findings of a judicial inquiry into the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report on Mosque Trashing Prompts Fury in India | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

...disparities are on most obvious display in gendered magazines like Cosmopolitan and Redbook. Look at those magazine headlines again. All those titillating taglines are about making the man feel good: “Find His Sensitive Spots,” “10 Moves He’s Secretly Begging For,” “The Foreplay He Craves...

Author: By Maya Shwayder | Title: Save Some For Me | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...Ever since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, observers have viewed Kirkuk, which is coveted by Kurds, Turkomans and Arabs, as a potential trip wire for civil war. The fact that it has remained largely stable owes much to the cosmopolitan character of the city's native population, and the city's heroic local police force led by three generals - a Kurd, an Arab and a Turkoman. The relative calm in Kirkuk may also be a vindication of the Baghdad government's foot-dragging over the question of whether to turn Kirkuk over to Kurdish control. (See pictures of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Elections Set, but Kurdish Tensions Remain | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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