Word: indianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in England of Indian parents, Iyer immigrated to California when he was seven, and soon began commuting 5,500 miles back to Britain to attend Eton and then Oxford, where he took a master's degree in English. Betwixt and between, Iyer traveled. When he was 17, he toured by bus through half a dozen Latin American countries. Eventually, he quit globe-trotting long enough to pick up another master's degree, at Harvard, where he also taught for two years before signing on as a staff writer for TIME in 1982. (He accepted the job from...
...resemble preppies, not hippies. Their professions include psychiatry, building contracting, and teaching. One is a lawyer; his wife said he went into law to work for the good guys, but ended up working for the bad guys. Another man, who used to wear his long hair in an Indian braid and who was into Zen Buddhism, now recommends wine at the Ritz-Carlton...
With the album behind her, and final plans being made for a summer tour, Childs is forging a fresh perspective. She has got in touch with her family. She is thinking about a second record ("I want Indian percussion, African voices and an Indonesian influence"). If she can get an album like Union from a single relationship, the music she makes from the rest of her life should really be extraordinary...
...crackle of gunfire around the Golden Temple sounded chillingly familiar. More than 600 people died in 1984 when Indian forces stormed the holy shrine and wiped out extremists demanding independence for Sikhs in Punjab. Last week paramilitary troops besieged an estimated 70 Sikh terrorists who were again turning the temple into a fortress. After a Sikh gunman shot at police, Indian security forces returned fire and surrounded the complex. Weeklong gun battles left more than 30 dead...
...passed on to India, which is thought to be thirsty for deuterium oxide for its two reactors and four nuclear power plants. Norway will not export heavy water to India because that country has not signed the 1968 Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Asked about the missing liquid, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said, "We have got enough heavy water of our own. We don't need to get it from outside...