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Adams: Jayme J. Herschkopf, Chang Liu, Srihari Mahadev, Yonina R. Murciano-Goroff, Kim T. Nguyen, Jared Roitstein-Vega, Ruchira Saha, Karin S. Schrader, Henry J. Seton...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Accepts 87 Seniors | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

...This is the world of Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (Flamingo; 376 pages) a first novel that tells of three generations of an Indian family stretched over a century of political and social turmoil. Mahadev and Suman Pathak, Bhatt's parents, fall in love during Mohandas Gandhi's nonviolent agitations of the 1930s. Paresh Bhatt himself is a world traveler who wanders aimlessly through life, finally following his offspring back to India and settling down in his hometown of Calcutta. It is Joshi's witty fabrication of the future that lifts his work from the rash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...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 with stories of Mahadev and young Paresh Bhatt capturing the aftermath of the 1971 Pakistan-Indian war on film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...refugees is Narayan Mahadev Thanage, 30, who lives with his wife and daughter in one of the jhuggis adjacent to the new Bombay slaughterhouse. He was forced to leave his five-acre farm in Ahmednagar District 125 miles from Bombay, one of the areas worst affected by the drought. In a good year, he cleared 3,000 rupees ($410) over and above the cost of supporting his family. "In my village there aren't enough people left to make a good funeral," he says. "Maybe there are 100, and they are mostly old. The schools and factories are closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Everybody Is Hungry | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

...broke up the crowds by firing over and, sometimes, under their heads, killing two and wounding several other pilgrims. Though officials feared the excitement might provoke violence between Hindu and Moslem communities, on New Year's Day worshipers of both faiths paraded peacefully together, Hindus chanting "Har Har Mahadev!" (Praise to God), Moslems crying "Allah O Akbar!" (God is great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kashmir: The Rape of the Lock | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

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