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...sister-in-law at 5 a.m. on Oct. 11, Anita turned on the television to see that Kiran, at age 35, had become the youngest woman ever to win the Booker. "I wanted it so much for her," says Anita, speaking from the family's residence in New Delhi. "It's far more intense to have my daughter listed and win than to be shortlisted for it myself. I would have been more unhappy than her had she not won." Accepting the prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran thanked her mother, whose committed support during...
DIED. Kanshi Ram, 72, activist member of India's caste of Dalits--or untouchables--who in 1984 organized millions of the country's disenfranchised by founding the Bahujan Samaj Party, which instantly became the most powerful lower-caste political party in India; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. Credited with spurring a radical shift in the perception of lower castes, Ram battled the upper-caste Brahmins and even criticized modern India's founding father, Mahatma Gandhi--revered for his advocacy of civil rights--for not doing enough to challenge the rigid social system...
...self-described "country boy," Ban was born in 1944, when South Korea was under Japanese occupation, and spent his childhood in the shadow of the Korean War. He had diplomatic postings in New Delhi and Washington, at the U.N. and in Vienna before becoming South Korea's Foreign Minister in 2004. The years abroad gave him global contacts and helped protect his reputation from the taint of South Korea's toxic political environment. "He doesn't make enemies," says Yang Sun Mook, a senior official of the country's opposition Democratic Party. "He makes friends." But Ban can also...
...self-described "country boy," Ban was born in 1944, when South Korea was under Japanese occupation, and spent his childhood in the shadow of the Korean War. He had diplomatic postings in New Delhi and Washington, at the U.N. and in Vienna before becoming South Korea's Foreign Minister in 2004. The years abroad gave him global contacts and helped protect his reputation from the taint of South Korea's toxic political environment. "He doesn't make enemies," says Yan Sun Mook, the chairman of the opposition Democratic Party's international-relations committee. "He makes friends." But Ban can also...
...capable of holding an eight-hour charge and designed to last 100,000 hours, the Mightylight is safer and more cost effective than kerosene lamps. Last November the pair began selling Mightylights for $45 each. The LED technology is so advanced, says Chugh, that "anyone in New York or Delhi would love one of these." Chugh, 39, hopes to release a $30 model soon and even cheaper lights thereafter. With help from foundations, they've sold and distributed more than 4,000 Mightylights for earthquake relief in Pakistan and to the poor in Afghanistan and Guatemala. In India, fishermen...