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...Bangalore, but no description of booming India could be complete without a look at such cities as Delhi, Gurgaon, Chandigarh and Jaipur. After all, northern India encompasses the wonders of the Taj Mahal, a growing software industry and the country's first shopping malls for the average consumer. Jayanti Jha Chandigarh, India You did not mention one of the greatest reasons for India's economic success: of the country's hundreds of languages, the one spoken in common by the upcoming generation is English. China is just now catching on to the necessity of learning English. Just wait until China...
...Manish Jha is no such equivocator. In A Nation Without Women (which won the critics' award at the recent Venice Film Festival), he exposes the social horror of India's antifemale birth policy from the first scene. A woman goes into labor; her husband paces anxiously; a baby's cry is heard. "It's a girl," the man is told; he takes the infant, drowns it in a well and apostrophizes, "Next year...
...Hindu fundamentalist cause, declaring that new excavations at Ayodhya reveal the mosque was built over an elaborate Hindu temple. Several academics scornfully dismissed this as a BJP political maneuver rather than a legitimate archeological revelation. "This is a totally doctored report," says University of Delhi history professor D.N. Jha. "They've created this temple out of nothing." (ASI archeologists declined to comment, saying they are forbidden to talk to the media...
Sophomore roommates Matt Chingos, Sid Jha, Frank Wu and Jason Wen have been selling 8 oz. flasks since last month. The words “Harvard-Yale The Game” are engraved on the flasks, which the budding entrepreneurs sell for $25 apiece...
Birendra had made the transition from absolutism gracefully, staying above factional politics and striving through literacy programs and public works efforts to project an image of the royal family as a discreet, benevolent force. Ambassador Keshav Raj Jha, a former Chief of Protocol, recalls that when the King visited Italy in 1994, he traveled by unmarked bus and stopped at McDonald's for coffee and snacks. "He refused to allow his security detachment to tell people who he was," says Raj Jha. "He waited in line just like the other motorists...