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Dreamy young movie stars usually don't worry about much--other than perhaps how to conceal their age. But Nandita Das doesn't like life to be quite so ordinary. Cross-legged and barefoot in her modest New Delhi apartment, she's steaming about the opposition of Hindu fanatics to a movie she's set to appear in, fretting about the state of artistic freedom in India and getting set to join relief efforts for victims of last October's deadly cyclone. She's also in mid-production on three movies. "I don't think I want to do acting...
Talk to Laxmi Narayan, and you will find out that the war for India's soul is being waged in places like the Samskrita Bharati, a tiny school housed inside a temple complex somewhere amid the tangle of dark, narrow alleyways in the heart of New Delhi. There Narayan, 27, along with scores of other pupils, spends his days studying the sacred and literary language of ancient India, Sanskrit. Narayan could just as easily learn Sanskrit in a university, but at Samskrita Bharati he is part of something larger: a crusade to restore the purity of Hindu culture and promote...
...India trip, but they were never going to be the issues on which he made substantial progress. Against the backdrop of a massacre of some 40 civilians in Kashmir by suspected Pakistan-backed Islamic militants, India's Prime Minster Atal Behari Vajpayee and President Clinton held talks in New Delhi and pretty much agreed to disagree on matters nuclear, even as they vowed to strengthen their relationship and hold regular summits. Vajpayee reiterated India's policy of maintaining a "minimum nuclear deterrent" but vowed that New Delhi would avoid further bomb testing - although he has no plans to sign...
...latest killings in Kashmir simply highlight the difficulty of managing India-Pakistan relations. While President Clinton said they underlined the need for dialogue with Pakistan, Mr. Vajapayee warned that "we have the will and the means to eliminate this menace." There's considerable pressure in New Delhi to punish Pakistan for the low-key anti-India insurgency it helps sustain in Kashmir. So what Clinton recently described as "the most dangerous region in the world" is likely to stay pretty dangerous, although the President hopes to make the danger more manageable by strengthening Washington's relationship with leaders on both...
...international treaty ending the production of the fissile material that provides the raw material of nuclear weapons. India is likely to gladly accept a role in shaping such international nuclear treaties and engage in dialogue with Washington on managing its weapons of mass destruction. After all, New Delhi justifies going nuclear as a way to claim geopolitical respect in a world where the only "countries that count" are those with nukes...