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...Even after Sept. 11, Pakistani loyalties were still divided. At least five key ISI operatives?some retired, some active?stayed on to help their Taliban comrades prepare defenses in Kandahar against the Americans. None has been punished for this disobedience. And in New Delhi, Indian intelligence agents insist that during the battle for the Taliban bastion of Kunduz, Musharraf persuaded the U.S. to allow Pakistani C-130 planes to airlift out between 300 to 1,000 of its pro-Taliban fighters before American jets poured fire onto the northern Afghan town. Both Washington and Islamabad deny this happened. What...
Pravin Togadiya is general secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), the Hindu movement blamed for the upsurge in religious bloodletting in India. Last week in New Delhi he spoke with TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly...
...going from A to B via P, T and X? Why do those infernal traffic lights, when not failing to impede traffic, flash the word relax? India sometimes seems to exist only to confound the expectations and to explode the tenses of a visitor from abroad. Flying into New Delhi recently, I was instantly lost inside a shouting commotion-traffic jams on the airport road at 2:15 on a Sunday morning!-and wondered how anything ever got done. INCONVENIENCE REGRETTED, read the age-old maxims on facilities being built, renovated or pulled down (who could tell which was which...
...read that people of Indian origin now make up 30% of all America's doctors, and another 250 Indians fill the faculties of America's top 10 business schools. Indians are the highest earning immigrant group in the U.S., indeed, and the reason I had come to New Delhi was to participate in a Festival of Literature celebrating the fact that a disproportionate number of the writers prominent in the world today are of Indian descent. Japan, the paper also reported, was sinking ever deeper into a depression compounded by inertia and a national suspicion of change...
...came up to me waving a copy of the Ikea 2001 catalog he was hoping to sell. Behind him, a painted elephant trooped past toward a wedding (STOP FOR HORSES, said the roadside sign), and a monkey dipped its hand into a bag of potato chips. In New Delhi, that mix of old East and new West-the elephant and the Ikea catalog-looked like a winning, and not so Japanese, combination...