Word: hindy
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...began to enjoy a stature it had not possessed before the riots. Muslim street toughs and hoodlums became newly respectable, as defenders of the community and their faith. After the blasts, many of the plotters went "upstairs." I met some of them in Dubai; they spend their days watching Hindi movies, their nights on mobile phones plotting murder and extortion across the Arabian Sea. They speak with enormous nostalgia about Bombay, and with hatred about their new neighbors?the Arabs do not treat South Asians well, and the Pakistanis are suspicious of their new guests. They've left family...
...describe Monsoon Wedding as a film about culture clash and the effects of westernization on traditional Indian culture would be selling it short. Certainly, there are elements of cultural tension: Even as the family prepares to celebrate an arranged marriage, they speak in a jumble of Hindi and English (the young men tell everyone to “chill” in English, while grandmothers speak only Hindi) and the girls read Cosmopolitan, while the boys watch MTV. In any case, Nair’s message on globalization is unclear, for while she evidently reveres traditional culture through her attention...
...hostage. The crisis of conscience was short-lived, but it was significant enough for the kidnapper to recall later in a confession he penned in jail. "All of a sudden, I felt terribly embarrassed," he wrote. So embarrassed that, hoping to evade responsibility, he begged his co-conspirator in Hindi, "Kidnap me also." His cohort growled, "Don't kick up a fuss." And they carried out the crime...
...Hindi speakers will find it difficult understanding the smattering of untranslated vernacular in the text. What a reader can't help but savor is Joshi's joy in language. This is an author who does not merely use words, he coddles them. Joshi may not have only constructed a future that lies within the pages of his novel?but a literary future for himself...
...froze his assets after the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, though he may have money in Switzerland, England and numerous other countries--but al-Qaeda also makes heavy use of hawala, an informal Islamic banking network that has operated for generations in Asia and the Middle East. Hawala, Hindi for "in trust," links brokers around the world who advance funds to depositors on a handshake and, sometimes, a password. In remote areas, a broker may have little more than a rug and a phone. In larger cities, including some in the U.S., brokers often operate from the back...