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...extraordinary boom in India. Entrepreneurs, engineers and stockpickers enriched by the nation's economic rise have discovered that abstract paintings can make for a good investment, and prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot be taken out of the country, overseas Indians, the most lavish patrons of art, have avoided buying her works. All that changed in March, when an Indian businessman bought Sher-Gil's Village Scene...
...reporting on the forgotten conflict in Congo left many readers wondering how the devastation escaped the world's attention for so long, while others called for action to prevent further suffering...
...lockers that can be used to store a fresh set of clothes. Finally, after you've wallowed and lolled in Boryeong's thick gray ooze, you can pick up some of the locally made products?from mudpacks and mud shampoo to mud soap and mud sunblock. Or had you forgotten that these toiletries were your excuse for coming in the first place...
...Deadliest War in the World Our reporting on the forgotten conflict in Congo and the enormous toll it has taken on the nation's inhabitants moved readers to share their sadness and pity. Many wondered how the devastation could have escaped the world's attention for so long, while others called for action to prevent further suffering...
That not to say it's easy to love. If you judge Bombay by governance, it sounds as though the city is falling apart. In a calamity last July that was mercifully forgotten with the advent of Hurricane Katrina weeks later, heavy monsoon rains flooded Bombay for a week as the city's 150-year-old drains and sewers collapsed. At least 435 people died. The infrastructure bears other scars of neglect. In the city's small and ancient stock of trains, each is crammed with an average of 4,500 people, although most have a capacity...