Word: goma
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...true that Congo needs a great deal of international support to hold elections, develop infrastructure and put an end to the insecurity in the east. But real progress will occur only when all of Congo's leaders and citizens decide to make things better for themselves. LAURA SEAY Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo...
...expulsion of Muslims from Spain and the Inquisition, he demanded "blood for blood!" and "destruction for destruction!" Days after recording the message, Fakhet and five or six self-styled mujahedin gathered in a circle in the Leganés flat and set off an estimated 20-kg charge of Goma 2 Eco dynamite, atomizing themselves. Officials believe that blast, which also killed an antiterror policeman, eliminated most of the "material authors" of the train bombings who were still at large. But no one in Europe is resting easy. For though the tape may have been Fakhet's final testament...
...Ramchandra hates his job, hates his in-laws, hates Kathmandu and has lost his passion for the dutiful Goma. He is struck by Malati's erotic promise and within the space of a few pages the once somnambulant Ramchandra is shadowing his student to her squalid home. Upadhyay paints Ramchandra's fevered befuddlement perfectly as he tries to think through the unthinkable: "He had an urge to walk toward Tangal, knock on Malati's door and tell her not to come to his house anymore, that he could no longer tutor her. Or perhaps crawl into bed next...
...love, or much of anything except for mathematics, which he teaches at a grubby Kathmandu school and to private students desperate to pass college-entrance exams. It's through these extra tutoring sessions that Ramchandra hopes to scrounge together enough rupees to move his family?his patient wife, Goma, and their two children?from their cramped apartment into a house of their own. This, Ramchandra repeats to himself, will prove his worth to his disdainful but wealthy in-laws, who see him as "a man who was worthless unless he continually moved toward better jobs and bigger houses...
...reaction of Ramchandra's wife when he confesses his infidelity. Inexplicably, Goma decides that Malati will move in with the family and into Ramchandra's bed; Goma will sleep with the children. Why? I have no idea. Upadhyay struggles with his characterization of Goma, sometimes a doormat, sometimes Machiavellian, never quite convincing. Also problematic are Upadhyay's efforts to weave Kathmandu's political turmoil (the novel takes place during the pro-democracy riots of 1990) into a personal story. The complex sleeping arrangements are distracting enough, and the collapse of the state pales next to the disintegration of this jigsaw...