Word: hindy
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...From the Thorung-la it was downhill all the way and straight into a riot of civilization. Cars honked, Hindi music blared, and it was hard to distinguish where the garbage dumps ended and the streets began. Friends back home may have thought I was roughing it, but I can affirm that life on the Annapurna circuit is more than civilized...
...Foreign Film entry's "dialogue track must be predominantly in a language of the country of origin except when the story mandates that an additional non-English language be predominant." That rule was used to reject the U.K.'s original submission, Asif Kapadia's The Warrior, which is in Hindi. A Western take on a Japanese fable transplanted to India, Kapadia's directorial debut earned rave reviews and three nominations at this year's BAFTA awards. The film has a second-generation British director, a British screenwriter and British backers - yet was considered insufficiently British, since it was shot...
...DIED. HARIVANSHRAI BACHCHAN, 96, eminent Hindi poet and father of Bollywood film icon Amitabh Bachchan; in Bombay. The elder Bachchan is best remembered for Madhushala (Tavern), a 135-verse epic that celebrates the virtues of drinking. He was appointed a member of the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of Parliament, from 1966 to 1972 for his contribution to Hindi literature...
...Delhi operator was controlled by Essar Group, a steel-making giant. But Mittal found ways to compete. He convinced European telecom equipment-maker Ericsson to supply Bharti's network on credit; he promised to pay "when the customers are happy," he says. Bharti (the name is derived from the Hindi word for Indian) expanded its distribution network for prepaid customers, a large part of the market in India, to allow drugstores, corner groceries, even stalls peddling paan, a popular mix of betel nut and spices chewed as a digestive, to sell added minutes. Bharti gave goodies to the storekeepers, like...
...force behind Ek Pal (Hindi for One Moment) is Karamjeet Ballagan, a 41-year-old ethnic Indian health worker in Birmingham, home to a big South Asian population. When Ballagan alerted community leaders that the HIV rate?though still small?was rising among South Asians and that people needed to be educated about sex and drugs, she ran into a wall of opposition. Culturally conservative and religiously orthodox, they refused to acknowledge the problem. "They thought I was imposing Western values and encouraging young people to have sex," says Ballagan. "But I wanted them to face reality...