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...divide her time among New York, Kampala and New Delhi, but don't call Mira Nair a global filmmaker. "I'm sitting here looking at films that are a product of global culture, and they don't have a soul," says the director of Monsoon Wedding, who was in Germany this month for the Berlin film festival. "Monsoon is so specifically local...
...groom is an engineer who lives in Houston. Extended family fly in from Muscat and Melbourne, while the striving, fast-talking wedding planner keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt in the morning and the sari at night. It's just the way we live...
...moment in a kidnapping, as one of the captors felt a pang of discomfort. The American backpacker had climbed willingly into the conspirators' van, lured by the false promise of dinner with a local Delhi family. Now it was time to tell him he was a hostage. The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also...
...military and intelligence services, he risked alienating the institutions that had brought him to power by purging a number of Taliban supporters from the top brass. And earlier this year, under pressure from the U.S. and India following a terrorist attack on the Indian legislature in New Delhi, Musharraf launched a sweeping crackdown on domestic extremist groups, arresting thousands of activists. In the process, he articulated a vision of a modern Pakistan guided by the principles of religious tolerance and separation of church and state that won widespread applause among ordinary Pakistanis alarmed at the "Talibanization" of their society...
...accreditation and allows foreign correspondents into the country only for specific events. It was part of a legislative package aimed at stifling dissent. INDIA Hard-Line India test-fired a second missile in less than a week but denied it was linked to increased tension with neighbor Pakistan. New Delhi said its troops killed five Pakistan-based militants attempting to cross into Indian-held Kashmir in the first major incursion since Pakistan promised a crackdown on such groups. Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee rejected calls by Pakistan for new talks. JAPAN Cabinet Kerfuffle Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi scrambled to replace...