Word: delhi
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Rajiv Goswami, 20, does not have the obvious makings of a hero. His father is a postmaster, and he grew up with six doting sisters in a typically middle- class family belonging to the Brahmin caste, the highest in the Hindu social order. At Deshbandhu College in New Delhi, he was a mediocre student, and he hoped to start work as a refrigeration engineer after graduation...
...well enough to meet their middle- class expectations. Now they face a situation where no matter how well they do in school, it will be considerably harder to get those posts. "Politicians are playing vote-catching gimmicks at our cost," says Abhishek Saket, 22, a history student at Delhi University. "I will end up a beggar or something." Says Madan Lal Goswami, the father of the hospitalized Rajiv: "My son has done the right thing. Some good will flow out of his sacrifice...
...quarry owner outside New Delhi, 12-year-old Ballu is worth 85 cents a day, the amount the child earns breaking rocks in an 11-hour shift. "I wanted to become an engineer," says Ballu. He glances sadly at his callused hands. "But now I have crossed the age for studies and will be a stonecutter all my life...
...Constable Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Christopher Redman, Margot Hornblower, Edward M. Gomez Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson, Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: John Borrell Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney Rome: Robert T. Zintl Jerusalem: Jon D. Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Latin America: John Moody Mexico City: Laura Lopez...
...sexual assault is all the more remarkable because censors in India are generally quite prudish. Lovemaking and even kissing scenes are banned. Yet the censors regard rape as permissible as long as the camera conceals as much as it reveals. Says Vimla Farooqui, a women's activist in New Delhi: "Rape scenes are used for an ugly kind of titillation...