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...define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted on going everywhere and "seeing" everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality, the life of the writer R.K. Narayan, and Indira Gandhi's political fall and resurrection. His masterpiece is a long essay on Calcutta called "The City of Dreadful Night"?a jarring, clangorous, minor-key symphony, alive with the bustle and despair of the city, which...
...European companies that is turning India from a distant satellite of Silicon Valley into one of the inner hubs of global technology. Since 2003, Yahoo's software-development center has been nestling up to the pizza joints and blue-jean shops on Bangalore's swank Mahatma Gandhi Road. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited their company's R.-and- D. center in Bangalore last October and said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans...
...European companies that is turning India from a distant satellite of Silicon Valley into one of the inner hubs of global technology. Since 2003, Yahoo's software-development center has been nestling up to the pizza joints and blue-jean shops on Bangalore's swank Mahatma Gandhi Road. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited their company's R&D center in Bangalore last October and said they plan to create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans...
...years; in Bombay. Although he didn't make his screen debut until age 40 with 1971's Reshma Aur Shera, Puri enjoyed a prolific film career, acting in more than 200 movies. His success in foreign features such as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gandhi brought him global recog-nition, while his role as devious gang leader Mogambo in 1987's Mr. India made him a cult figure at home...
...Your article described the view of traditionalists who believe that India is defined by restraint reflected in Gandhian frugality. A different point of view was provided by journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who said, "Gandhi may still be an icon, but Gandhism is dead as a dodo." Gandhism can never die. The Mahatma's sole objective in life was to turn man's attention to God and teach man how to seek the guidance of this kindly light within his soul in every situation. Gandhism is the very soul of man. Mukut Behari Lal New Delhi...