Word: jyoti
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...Jyoti-Jasmine-Jane says at one point: "It is by now only a passing wave of nausea, this response to the speed of transformation, the fluidity of American character and the American landscape. I feel at times like a stone hurtling through diaphanous mist, unable to grab hold, unable to slow myself, yet unwilling to abandon the ride...
...that exists now. Jasmine is the story of an Indian girl who emigrates to America, shedding selves as she moves to, and through, this country, eventually realizing herself as genuinely American. It's a book about disintegration and change, constant rebirth in the midst of bewildering opportunity: she is Jyoti, then Jasmine and later, in Iowa, Jane Ripplemeyer, though even this is not an endpoint...
...world that do not appear in any directory... we are refugees and mercenaries and guest workers; you watch us sleeping in airport lounges; you watch us unwrapping the last of our native foods..." Mukherjee gives us a strong sense of this under-world, and also of the Indian culture Jyoti is escaping...
...follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering touch. He made four campaign swings in March through West Bengal (pop. 60 million). Referring to the Communist government of West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, 72, Gandhi repeatedly exhorted the crowds to "smash the red fort of Marxism...
...piled in the Maidan Park, only half a mile of track was scheduled to become operational this summer. Then a June storm flooded the whole system and postponed its opening to the public. "When the thing is completed, it will not solve anything," says Calcutta's Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who wants to build an auxiliary railway system to carry people from the subway to their work. Says he: "Without such a railway, there will be pandemonium...