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...Bollywood hierarchy from thug to action star to top comedian. Bearing a disconcerting resemblance to Adam Sandler in his clownish moments (and, when he finally achieves heroic stature, to John Turturro), Kumar must play a child-man whose talisman is a potato imprinted with the elephant likeness of the Hindu god Ganesh; but the 6 ft. 1 actor is too big and imposing to lend vulnerability to this naif. Instead of being innocent, he just seems slow. (On the flight to China, an Indian man seated behind Sidhu asks him, in English, "Are you stupid?") Comedy is the most local...
Mumbaikars, though, did not wallow in their woe. In the past, bouts of bloody Hindu-Muslim violence followed acts of terrorism. But a sense of unity, not vindictiveness, permeated the city this time. Mumbai's influential Hindu right-wing went missing, knowing its brand of extremism wasn't welcome. Soon after the last shots were fired, the city's leading Muslim clerics showed their contempt for the act, declaring that the bodies of the terrorists would not be allowed a proper burial within Mumbai...
...world's major civilizations, Huntington said, were Western, Latin American, Islamic, African, Orthodox, Hindu, Japanese, and "Sinic" (which included other East Asian cultures...
...calls last year regarding forced marriages, says Abedin's is not an uncommon reaction. "Children often don't want to have action taken against their parents but just want to get out of the situation," says Rana. Reports suggest that Abedin's strict Muslim parents disapproved of her Hindu boyfriend in Britain and wanted her to marry a man of their choosing. "Parents are doing the same thing that happened to them and their parents and their grandparents, so they don't think they are doing anything wrong," says Rana...
...been committed in India. A great tragedy, apart from the loss of a large number of innocent lives, was the killing of the chief of the local Anti-Terrorism Squad, Hemant Karkare. He had been leading investigations into earlier bomb blasts that had uncovered evidence suggesting the complicity of Hindu extremists, including politicians and a serving Army officer. His investigation, which had given a new twist to the discourse on terrorism in India, is another casualty. T. Maryam, New Delhi...