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...Supporting such programming in a pious country was a gamble. Under the Taliban, musical performances were banned. So was TV. But today, media company Moby Capital Partners, owner of Tolo TV, is prospering. Tolo TV's mix of news, sports, music, reality shows and Indian soap operas draws nearly two-thirds of the country's viewers, according to a recent survey by a Kabul consulting company. Tolo, one of six private stations in Afghanistan, has drawn the ire of conservatives who decry its use of female presenters. But its programs appeal to young Afghans (half the population is below...
...Proliferating Primates Re "Way too Much Monkey Business" [Nov. 13], on the overpopulation of rhesus macaques in Delhi: The problem reflects the sad state of Indian society today. Indians see only the immediate trouble and its quick fix. In its quest for a high per capita income, the society is moving forward in much the same way it handled the monkey issue-creating problems, analyzing those problems in retrospect, critiquing the possible solutions and finally learning to coexist with the problem. Then some entrepreneur sees a business opportunity: Let's bring in bigger monkeys to solve the problem...
CONVICTED. Sanjay Dutt, 47, Indian actor and star of more than 100 Bollywood films; of illegal-weapons possession, stemming from an investigation into the 1993 Bombay bombings that killed 257, the deadliest terror attack in the nation's history; in Bombay. While Dutt had been accused of obtaining an AK-56 rifle and a 9-mm pistol from an alleged conspirator in the bombing, the judge found there was insufficient evidence linking the guns to a cache of smuggled arms used in the Bombay attack. Dutt could still face up to 10 years in jail on the possession charge...
...four of the 14 kids were girls: Suzy and the three from a council estate (cursorily referred to in Seven Up! as "Jackie and her friends"). Simon is the only Anglo-African - his mother white, his father black. Apted and McDougall didn't think to find a child with Indian or Pakistani roots, although families of those nationalities had been streaming into Britain for 15 years. These days especially, Apted must regret the omission...
...course. Languages do not fare much better: though the number of courses in South Asian languages stands at 69, the distribution favors ancient languages like Sanskrit, while contemporary spoken languages are often relegated to a few small language tutorials. The current courses offerings in the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies are concentrated heavily in the study of ancient language, and for those courses that begin to address regional study, focus lies in ancient India, with courses such as “History of South Asia to 1200 C.E.” and “Indian Philosophy...