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...breakthrough was Monsoon Wedding - an intimate family flick, a love song to my Delhi and an ode to masti, the Punjabi intoxication with life. I wanted to capture my India, a place that has always lived in several centuries at once, an India of cell phones and peacocks, where housewives play the stock market, Cuban cigars are savored, and a marigold-eating tent-man reinvents himself as an event manager only to be undone by love. Little did I know then that people from Iceland to Hungary to Southern California would claim the Vermas as their family, and our wedding...
...With reporting by Benjamin Siegel/New Delhi and Susan Jakes/Beijing
...fifth floor of a fading pink-and-green building in New Delhi, Dr. Ashok Jhingan is waging a desperate battle against a relentless medical foe. In an office that's only a few degrees cooler than the sweltering city outside, Jhingan and his small team of doctors are tackling what could be India's biggest emerging health problem. No, it's not aids or cholera or malaria, each of which is tragically entrenched among the country's 1 billion people...
...Instead it's that scourge of better-fed nations-Type 2 diabetes-which may prove just as deadly for coming generations. Every day, 50 to 60 patients file through Jhingan's two clinics in New Delhi; nine of them will find out for the first time that they have the disease. Deceptively nonthreatening at first, diabetes can lead to heart disease , amputations, blindness, kidney failure and other complications if not properly treated...
...ridiculous to think that those protesting the reservation system are elitists intent on maintaining their superiority and that those who support them are representing the people," says Andre Beteille, a Delhi University professor and scholar of social inequity in India. "This situation is not about caste, it's about politics." Cynics echo that view, pointing out that the lower castes who would benefit from the reforms are one of the most active voting blocs in state elections...