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...took up full-time volunteer work with the International Organization for Migration after he participated in relief efforts following the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, has found his work especially frustrating in the devastated Neelum Valley, located in the Himalayan mountains in the Pakistani-held portion of disputed Kashmir. After the quake, George, 49, became a familiar figure in the remote valley as he walked trails leading processions of porters toting pickaxes, shovels, bales of wire and plastic tarpaulins?the tools needed to build improvised shelters for survivors whose homes had been shaken into rubble. In late November, he went...
...arrests have been made, and the police have named no suspects yet, but suspicion is increasingly zeroing in on the Islamist terror outfits that have been waging a mounting campaign of terror against India. The Lashkar-e-Toiba, a jihadist group that aims to drive India out of Kashmir, is a prime suspect, but Bangladesh-based terror outfits are also considered potential culprits. India's security experts have been warning for months that it was only a matter of time before terrorists attacked Bangalore in a bid to weaken the country's booming technology sector. In March this year, Indian...
...chauffeur. It takes Rushdie the rest of this absorbing novel to explain why. Prowling restlessly backwards and forwards through the 20th century, he follows the principal players from country to country, through World War II and the struggle between Pakistan and India for control of the Edenic villages of Kashmir. Everywhere he takes us there is both love and war, in strange and terrifying combinations, painted in swaying, swirling, world-eating prose that annihilates the borders between East and West, love and hate, our private lives and the history we make...
...When the Kashmir earthquake left millions of victims homeless, Rabia G. Mir ’07’s family was among them. Mir, whose father is Kasmiri, has family near the quake’s epicenter. In the October disaster, their village was completely wiped out. But the earthquake did not hit as close to home for everyone at Harvard. “People were like, ‘What earthquake?’” Mir says. “That was a huge shock.” To keep them thinking, Mir and a coalition...
...South Asia combined with paintings, craftings, and sculptings by South Asian artists to give the event an eclectic array of art forms. The art focused on a culture that is still in recovery, as the disaster caused over 88,000 deaths and left 3.3 million homeless in the Kashmir region of South Asia. “Most of the images are from South Asia and the region,” said Dharma Co-President Shyam K. Tanguturi ’07. “They are showing various aspects of life in South Asia to allow people to connect with...