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...elaborate Hindu temple. Several academics scornfully dismissed this as a BJP political maneuver rather than a legitimate archeological revelation. "This is a totally doctored report," says University of Delhi history professor D.N. Jha. "They've created this temple out of nothing." (ASI archeologists declined to comment, saying they are forbidden to talk to the media...
Nothing was more symbolic of the Taliban's fall than the appearance of a forbidden kite in the skies over Kabul. Breathless news accounts heralded it as a harbinger of Afghanistan's rebirth; the killjoy Talibs were gone and music, which they had also banned, played at their wake. But in Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner, this symbol of liberation serves only to remind Afghan refugee Amir of a past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What...
...Here's the delicious dilemma Pirandello poses: Three strange characters: a man (we'll say A), his wife (B) and an older woman (C), whom the man has forbidden his wife to contact. A says it's because C is mad: that she believes the man's wife is her daughter, when in fact her daughter was the man's first wife, who died in an earthquake, and B is his second. C says A is mad: that he mistakenly believed his wife had died in an earthquake, and to humor him B pretended to be another woman, whom...
...instead of a simple charitable mission, Okhotin says he found himself entangled in a web of lies and corrupt prosecution. More than three months later, he is still forbidden to leave Russia—and his trial on charges of smuggling has just been announced for August...
...neon present collides with Confucian tradition. These days, many of her calls are from wives and mistresses on either side of the extramarital divide. With fewer neighborhood spies to keep track of a person's movements, such illicit relationships are burgeoning, but there's little chance to discuss these forbidden affairs except on programs like Ye's "Accompanying You 'Til Dawn." Other calls that Ye fields have brought tales of incest, spousal abuse and date rape. "My program provides a relatively private space for people to tell their stories," says the 34-year-old Ye, who prides herself on useful...