Word: lungi
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...people, and local police say that militants agitating for an ethnic Bodo homeland, who have clashed violently with local Muslims, are to blame. In this environment, no one bothers to differentiate between the earlier, legal migrants from Bangladesh and newcomers. Says Goswami: "In Assam, if you're wearing a lungi or a beard, people say you're from Bangladesh...
...container that serves as an office for the Ministry of Mines. Here you will be asked whether you are smuggling any diamonds out of the country. Presuming the answer's no, get your name and passport number registered again. 4) Check your bags in and catch the helicopter to Lungi International Airport. It's a 20-minute ride and gives you a fantastic view of Freetown and some of Sierra Leone's glorious coastline. 5) After collecting your bags, push your way through the crowd of people into the check-in area of the airport. A man will check your...
...Hindus, who account for three-fourths of the refugees and a majority of the dead, have borne the brunt of the Moslem military's hatred. Even now, Moslem soldiers in East Pakistan will snatch away a man's lungi (sarong) to see if he is circumcised, obligatory for Moslems; if he is not, it usually means death. Others are simply rounded up and shot. Commented one high U.S. official last week: "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland...
...compared with 800,000 Hindus out of a population of 58 million in the West. In Brit ish India days, the western reaches of what is now West Pakistan formed the frontier of the empire, and the British trained the energetic Punjabis and Pathans as soldiers. They scorn the lungi, a Southeast Asian-style sarong worn by the Bengalis. "In the East," a West Pakistani saying has it, "the men wear the skirts and the women the pants. In the West, things are as they should...
...young generation is often a curious blend of old and new. M. V. Arunachalam, 38, who helps direct twelve family companies in southern India, prefers to wear the sheetlike Indian lungi and practices yoga every morning, but he also insisted on automatic elevators in the firm's new nine-story building, and is negotiating with IBM for a computer to handle payrolls and inventory. The Mafatlals, on the other hand, follow the tradition of communal living: the brothers and their families all occupy one five-story, 20-bedroom house. Arvind Mafatlal is a vegetarian, prays an hour every morning...