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Meenakshi Iyer was heading home to her husband when a Hindu gang boarded her bus, baying for Muslim blood. As a Hindu, Iyer was safe. But she knew the man beside her, Raja Chowdhury, would be killed if they discovered he was a Muslim. "I'm Mrs. Iyer," she told the mob, "and this is Mr. Iyer, my husband," she lied, introducing Chowdhury. And that was it. The gang moved on, questioning other passengers, forcing men they doubted to prove they weren't circumcised...
...movie Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Indian writer-director Aparna Sen weaves a love story set against the backdrop of communal violence, the monkey that never leaves India's back. Iyer (played by Konkona Sensharma, Sen's daughter) and Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) seem to have nothing in common. She's an orthodox Hindu from South India, he's a liberal Muslim from West Bengal; she's married with a child, he's a single photographer. But their overnight bus journey through the hills of West Bengal draws them together. As violence erupts, a curfew is declared and they take shelter together...
...Iyer, Sen's humanism emerges in the empathetic way she explores an array of starkly different characters. In the extensive scenes on the bus, there is an old Muslim couple, a pair of newlyweds, a mother with her handicapped son, college kids on their summer break, a Jew and two Sikhs, who together represent a kind of mini-India. Sen uses the reactions of each character to the violence unfolding around them as a mirror that reflects the clashing attitudes Indians hold toward one another. Her attention to detail is one of her great strengths, and the film skillfully captures...
...magazine whose name means "youth" held a poll among its readers two years ago, Bill Clinton proved twice as popular as the Vietnamese Prime Minister. Having worked so hard to liberate itself from France and then America, Vietnam still needs, Lamb suggests, to be rescued from itself. --By Pico Iyer...
Harvard took the early lead by capturing the doubles point. The first doubles team of sophomore David Lingman and freshman Jonathan Chu defeated Stefan Paulovic and Sunil Iyer, 8-5. The second doubles team was defeated, but sophomore Cliff Nguyen and captain William Lee captured the point easily by virtue...