Word: hindi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were prayer sessions from which rose chants of Sanskrit verses. Then the blue lights in the meditation hall dimmed, and the faithful swayed rhythmically to and fro. Finally, Muktananda proclaimed (in Mindi, a Hindi dialect), "Now is the auspicious hour of the auspicious day. The sun and moon are strong." That heralded the main event: the marriage of 16 couples, the women in saris, with garlands of flowers. The guru, who is licensed to perform weddings as a minister in an ordination mill called the Universal Life Church, blessed the rings and said, "May you live together in love...
...Shepherd, "stars are not only born in a night but burn out in a night. Producers consider themselves lucky if they wind up a picture with enough money for a new car, a new mistress and a bottle of Scotch." With stars demanding six-figure salaries, a ho-hum Hindi movie costs around $500,000. Production is sluggish, often taking a year...
...case, cinema has now become India's seventh-largest industry. In all, 65 studios and 38 film laboratories spend $82 million to supply movies in 15 official languages to almost 9,000 Indian theaters (annual box office: $256 million). Bombay is the home of the big-budget Hindi hits, but it is Calcutta that has earned for India most of its international cinematic acclaim. That is mainly because of Satyajit Ray. Using Calcutta's swirling misery as a background for his low-budget masterpieces, Director Ray depicts Indian life with poignant realism. His famous trilogy, Song...
...closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and English)--although the most technical discussions were reserved for English. His school, like that of every elite student I talked to, made a practise of sending its graduates out of the country; Rahman says that out of around 40 graduates 25 went abroad his year--although most went...
...Locally used languages include Dutch, French, Hindi, English, Javanese, Chinese and Taki-Taki, an English-based patois made up of many tongues...