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...DELHI—I don’t enjoy telling people in New Delhi which country I study in. No, not because there is an anti-American sentiment here, not because I could be treated differently, or because I could be fleeced by shopkeepers and charged three times the normal rate for a can of Coke. The reason is Dubyaman...
...stopped daring to mention that I study at Harvard. The last time someone wheedled that out of me I was met with guffaws and the kind of belly-laughter you’d associate with a person slipping on a stray banana-peel on the dirt-strewn pavements of Delhi (yes, that’s considered funny here). Having my work-desk right outside the office of Jug Suraiya—Dubyaman’s proud creator, and associate editor at the Times of India—doesn’t help matters...
Nuclear deterrence not withstanding, no Indian really feels safe. And at the same time, Indians don’t really care anymore. In New Delhi, nothing has changed since I last visited two years ago, right after the “Kargil” war between India and Pakistan. And the rapid Coca-Colanization of India continues: people still flock to movie-theaters to watch Hollywood blockbusters, HBO and CNN pull in as many viewers as the Doordarshan, India’s oldest channel, and McDonald’s milkshakes sell as much as the lassis you?...
...partition of India forced the Musharraf family to migrate from New Delhi to a refugee ghetto in Karachi when Pervez was just 3. That status as a so-called mohajir would help form the Musharraf clan's aspirations for upward mobility. Mohajirs, Muslim immigrants from India, have been discriminated against in Pakistan since the nation's inception, losing out on government jobs and occasionally becoming the victims of urban rioting. A seven-year posting in Turkey secured the father's future in the foreign service and the family's rung in the middle class...
...ELECTED. AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM, 70, long-haired scholar and rocket scientist, dubbed India's "Missile Man" for his pivotal role in the country's successful rocket and satellite programs, and also renowned for supervising India's 1998 nuclear weapons tests, as President of India; in New Delhi. Aside from an avid interest in Indian culture-he plays the veena, a traditional Indian instrument, and is an authority on the Bhagavad Gita-he's also dedicated to making India a major military power. "Our neighbors have nuclear weapons," he has said. "Do you want us to be invaded...