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...owned business houses, especially the big ones, like to project an image of unity. And yet they are often driven by internecine rivalries. Neel Chowdhury, a Time contributor, fashions a perceptive novel, The Inheritors, out of that promising and, remarkably, all-but-ignored raw material. The clan in question, India's Lohias, is fictional, but anyone who has followed the tangled histories of Asia's real-life business dynasties will recognize some family lore and a few choice rumors...
...What humanizes the characters is Chowdhury's reimagining of the Lohias' beginnings as Marwari traders. Once little more than personal bankers to the nobles of Rajputana, the Lohias are constantly reminded of their mere mercantile status and escape that humiliation by migrating all over India to seek their fortunes...
...Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" by the Righteous Brothers, considered the most-played recording of the 20th century. The name said it all: a Spector "wall" featured large numbers of musicians and instruments, layered upon one another to produce a freight train of instrumentation, melody and noise. (Read about India's own Wall of Sound...
...Representative in 1991, she helped unveil a banner in Tiananmen Square honoring "those who died for democracy in China" - is seen by some mainland observers as a means to intimidate the country. When riots erupted across Tibet in March 2008, Pelosi met with the Dalai Lama in India and denounced China, calling on the world to pressure the Chinese leadership. Xinhua responded by saying that "she confused right with wrong on ... Tibet, held double standards to interfere in China's internal affairs (and) hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and impaired China-U.S. relations." (See pictures from...
...Punjab - and thousands of miles away in Austria - point to a broader problem: the dangerous mix of inequitable development and enduring caste-based resentment. The northern state has a higher than national average population of Scheduled Castes, an umbrella term for various lower castes, with 28.95% in Punjab against India's average of 16%. "Dalit Sikhs and Ravidasias, especially in the fertile Doaba belt which sends out a large number of immigrants, have seen immense prosperity lately, and with it, a rising Dalit consciousness and assertion," says Dr. Ronki Ram, reader in the Department of Political Science at Panjab University...