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...friends in wartime Germany, as told - sometimes at numbing length - through her letters. Two Lives is thin on Seth's current life, though in person he is as voluble as Shanti must have been. Unmarried at 53, the author has a house in north London and another in Delhi, three doors from his parents'. His father was a shoe company executive, his mother the first female High Court chief justice in India. Her autobiography was published in 2003. "Yes, she beat me to it," jokes Seth. His next project: "I'll finish the Suitable Quartet - you know, The Unsuitable...
...hero of the French Resistance and a chum of Marlon Brando's. This is the kind of preposterous, over-laden detail that bends and almost cracks the novel at various points. Yet the plot somehow works. The ambassador falls for Boonyi, she betrays Shalimar, and the two elope to Delhi. Shalimar goes mad with jealousy, and vows to kill the two lovers. As he gets deranged, so does Kashmir...
...apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits of man and machines and the tension between the goals we set and the risks we take. --With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington, Cathy Booth-Thomas/Nacogdoches; Simon Crittle, Amy Goehner, Sean Gregory, Ratu Kamlani and Julie Rawe/New York; Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi; Rita Healy/Denver; Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral; Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem; and Winston Ross/Spokane
...atom bomb ushered into being an indefinite "peace that is no peace"--but we should, perhaps, be thankful for small mercies. Since Aug. 6, 1945, we have lived uneasily with the Bomb, and uneasy with it we should always be. But we have lived. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/New Delhi, Michael Brunton and Roland Lloyd Parry/London, Coco Masters/New York, Tim McGirk/Islamabad, Yuki Oda/Tokyo, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg, Mark Thompson/Washington and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow...
...Advani to stand trial for inciting violence in a speech before the Ayodhya mosque's destruction. Nowadays, however, he is more likely to exasperate his own party: on a visit to Pakistan last month, he praised its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Brahma Chellaney, strategic studies professor at the New Delhi-based Center for Policy Research, says this broad change in the Hindu right has helped "mellow" relations between India and Pakistan. "Even if there is another major attack, there will be no major reaction in India," he says. Which is another way of saying: people want peace...