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...Quotas for Castes Re "Battle of the Castes" [June 5]: the Indian government's decision to reserve 27% of university seats for lower-caste groups that are officially known as Other Backward Classes has raised some protests, giving the impression of a countrywide controversy. But the system is already prevalent in many states and is running successfully. It is like the homeopathic principle of treating similar with similar: substances that can cause symptoms can, as a remedy, also reverse them. The quota system is aimed at eradicating caste differences in due course. A. Jacob Sahayam Kerala, India...
...find one that the people can live with and use to advance into civilized modernity. The world is getting tired of, and bogged down by, Africa's problems. Wake up, Africa, and smell the coffee! Benjamin Omovie Cardiff Quotas for Castes Re "Battle of the castes" [June 5]: The Indian government's decision to reserve 27% of university seats for lower-caste groups that are officially known as Other Backward Classes has raised some protests, giving the impression of a countrywide controversy. But the system is already prevalent in many states and is running successfully. It is like the homeopathic...
...Cutting through the myths and gossip, Dalmia shows that Sher-Gil was a serious artist intent upon bridging the gulf between the Western-educated Indian ?lite to which she belonged, and the impoverished millions surrounding them. She wrote of traveling through India and finding it full "of dark-bodied, sad-faced, incredibly thin men and women who move silently looking almost like silhouettes." She decided her task would be "to interpret the life of Indians, particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those images of infinite submission and patience." This she did like no one before her, filling canvases with...
...hierophants sharing a hushed secret. In such works, writes Dalmia, "the contemporary [is] elevated to the level of the classical." In a tragically brief career, Sher-Gil did much to introduce her country to the idea of the free-spirited artist, and to show them that art could interpret Indian life for Indians. As Dalmia puts it: "She introduced the modern into India...
...Union soldiers in Irwinville, Georgia finally caught up with and arrested him. Three weeks later, General Smith's forces in Texas surrendered; and on June 23, the Cherokee chief and Confederate general Stand Watie, aware of Smith's surrender, accepted the inevitable. He galloped into the tiny Indian Territory hamlet of Fort Towson-in today's Oklahoma-and surrendered his battalion of Cherokee, Seminole and Osage Indians to Union forces. The Confederacy had officially become a lost cause...