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...Aparisim Ghosh: I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad...
...toughest assignment a journalist can get. Along with the flak jacket and the satellite phone, music - an iPod, Walkman or just a noisy singalong - can be a war correspondent's best friend. Here are a few tunes that have given our reporters a respite while covering Iraq. Aparisim Ghosh I never leave home without The Best of Daler Mehndi, a compilation of uptempo bhangra standards by India's best-selling pop act. It's Punjabi dance music at its best. I've made Mehndi fans out of cab drivers in Jenin, Gaza, Amman and Baghdad. Alex Perry Perhaps the best...
...quasi-art films, for example, may allow for the rare scheming woman-as in Maqbool, where the Lady Macbeth role is played with intoxicating seductiveness by Tabu-but more often they depict a complex and suffocating code of behavior condemning women to second-class status or worse. Rituparno Ghosh's Chokher Bali, A Passion Play, based on the Rabindranath Tagore story, tells of a young Calcutta widow (Bollywood megastar Aishwarya Rai) living in the lavish prison of her in-laws' home. The very beauty of the sets and costumes confines our heroine, traps her in their heavy luxury; the whispered...
...sympathizers. "Before, I thought al-Qaeda only killed Americans," says Kadem Saleh, 33, a pilgrim in Najaf. "Now they are killing Iraqis. I say, 'Allah curse them.'" The U.S. still needs to convince more Iraqis that they're safe to do the same. --Reported by Bruce Crumley/Paris, Aparisim Ghosh and Michael Ware/Baghdad, Helen Gibson/London, Scott Macleod/Cairo, Tim McGirk/Islamabad and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Abdullah, the deal is doubly attractive; it allows him to claim his father's mantle as a Middle East conciliator, and it mollifies the majority of his subjects who saw Abdullah's pro-U.S. stance during the Iraq war as a betrayal of an Arab hero. --By Aparisim Ghosh...