Word: indoing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Associate Professor of Indo-Muslim Culture Ali S. Asani decides to leave the University at the end of this year, Harvard may have serious difficulties continuing its program in Indo-Muslim culture and many South Asian language programs, faculty and students said yesterday...
...native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., talk of "open((ing)) your schmucky gob"? Does the world really need another lecherous British officer dithering, "I say, Lorna, I'm terribly keen on you"? At times, with their perfumed dissolutes and frustrated shrinks, the stories read like crude distillations of the Anglo-Indo-American vignettes of screenwriter-novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, or even like bite-size appetizers for the full-course feast of a Salman Rushdie novel...
...least of all the principals, doubts that a fourth Indo-Pakistani war would be devastating. Some observers even fear that such a conflict could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. India exploded its initial nuclear device in 1974, and Pakistan is widely believed to have a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this potential catastrophe is the rebellion in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir, an 87-mile-long valley that is home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement...
...indignation about foreign economic pressure has deep historical roots. In the mid-1700s the English East India Company subjugated the region and ran it as a private domain for a century. "The U.S. must realize it's a question of national pride," says H.S. Singhania, co-chairman of the Indo- U.S. Joint Business Council. "We cannot have the U.S. dictating our economic policy...