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...baby girls is that many villages and towns lack brides for their young men. (In one of the film's sequences, a village patriarch pays dearly to marry his son off to a heavily veiled stranger who is ultimately revealed as a man.) So when the beautiful Kalki (Tulip Joshi) reaches a marriageable age and her father demands 100,000 rupees for his prize, a village father pays him 500,000 to make her the wife of all five of his grown sons. Each son will have one night a week with her, and father will have...
...health was suffering, the BJP had suffered a string of state election defeats, war with Pakistan was looming and, sensing weakness, Hindu mobs had slaughtered some 2,000 Muslims in the western state of Gujarat. "He just felt down and out," says Times of India political editor Manoj Joshi. A Hindu critic says, "Everybody was doubting how long he would be able to last and saying a change in the leadership was just around the corner." That view was reinforced when Vajpayee promoted Advani to the newly created post of Deputy Prime Minister...
...what changed? "He suddenly decided he didn't care so much," says Joshi. "He's relaxed and he's confident. And when he's like that, there's no one in India to touch him." Friends of Vajpayee say the Prime Minister's trimmer figure comes from a regimen that has him cutting down on fatty and sugary foods and a new commitment to using the treadmill in his New Delhi bungalow...
...Joshi also invents a fictitious computer game called Megalopolis Asia that has in its memory the detailed environment of hundreds of Asian cities along with their histories, and allows players to choose characters and place them in different milieus and time periods. Through this device, Joshi juxtaposes events in India's history with personal experiences of each Bhatt member, leaving readers to puzzle over the possible links. In book two, for instance, the tale of Para Bhatt executing a near-perfect air strike to demolish Saudi Arabian tanks positioned in the Kharan area on the Pakistan-Iran border is intertwined...
...Hindi speakers will find it difficult understanding the smattering of untranslated vernacular in the text. What a reader can't help but savor is Joshi's joy in language. This is an author who does not merely use words, he coddles them. Joshi may not have only constructed a future that lies within the pages of his novel?but a literary future for himself...