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...Simputer is the result of more than two years of R. and D. conducted and funded by Simputer Trust, a hydra-headed company led by the Bangalore Seven?four Indian Institute of Science professors and three engineers from Encore, an Indian software company. In 1998, New Delhi recruited them to explore ways of bridging the digital divide. Importing hardware would be too expensive, they figured, and existing operating systems too complex, especially for the illiterate. "Can we think beyond the PC?" Vinay Deshpande, Encore ceo, asked the team...
...folks to pull off one of the simplest, yet most outrageous, frauds ever. The front of our book is now also filled with lively, amusing and often irreverent takes on the news, an effort led by Anthony Spaeth, our Senior Writer/Editor who recently relocated to Hong Kong from New Delhi. Spaeth is a talented wordsmith and, no less critically for this job, one of the world's truly funny people. Assisting him is Brian Bennett, a recent recruit to TIME who, in just a few months on the job, has shown considerable flair in reporting, writing and finding the offbeat...
...Three months ago, India's mangy but ubiquitous performing bears were forced into retirement by an animal-rights conscious government armed with a rarely enforced wildlife protection statute. The intention: to improve the bears' undeniably terrible lot. The result, however, has been even worse. Ten New Delhi bears have been confiscated from owners and confined to dank animal shelters. Some have stopped eating because of homesickness and one bear has passed away...
...Fearing similar fates for their animals, scores of bear owners in the New Delhi area are scrupulously avoiding the crowds they used to entertain. Raju and Sheru spend most of their days lying in a dusty, shaggy heap tied to a post outside their owner's home. Every so often, a child is sent out to pour water on them to help with the heat. "These bears are very expensive to keep and now, instead of earning for us, they have become a burden," complains Abdul, a bear trainer...
...share of moderates who could have brought some sanity into Afghan lives. But the U.S.-imposed sanctions have marginalized these elements, and the Taliban is more fanatic than ever. If the U.S. wishes to engage the Taliban diplomatically, isolating the regime is not the best way. DEBOJYOTI GHOSH New Delhi...