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...declines to divulge the names of any of the professors currently under consideration for tenure, but according to Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson, the list includes Mahmoud Mamdani, a political scientist who is currently the director of Columbia’s Institute of African Studies; James H. Sidanius, a professor in UCLA’s psychology department; and Christopher R. Udry, an economist at Yale...
...Molina and Marisa Tomei, critics panned the film, with The New Yorker deriding it as "almost unwatchable." Her next movie Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love was universally skewered, and even Nair disowned it as an "aberration." In 1997 she moved to South Africa with her second husband, Mahmood Mamdani?now an anthropology professor at Columbia?to look after their son Zohran and, it seemed, to withdraw from directing into the life of a suburban housewife...
...also provided a means of escape, allowing her to act in plays in New Delhi. By 18, studying and performing at university in the Indian capital, Nair was applying to every U.S. college she could think of, already displaying the resolve and energy that would mark her life. Mamdani describes film as Nair's ideal medium. "Mira often says she left documentaries for fiction because she got tired of waiting for things to happen." The role of the headstrong itinerant is not without a price, however. Time and again, Nair returns on screen to themes of displacement and immigration...
...worked independently," she says. "Vanity Fair has a Hollywood budget, but it's completely an independent filmmaker's film." These days, she's regularly courted by Hollywood, but the turbulence of her career has taught Nair that her flavor-of-the-month status won't last. In any case, Mamdani says, that isn't the objective. Nair is "driven more by passion than ambition," he says. This has afforded her a rare artistic license in what is often a timidly conventional profession. "When I have passion for something," says Nair, "I'm a weirdly kind of fearless person." Indeed, Mamdani...
Nair grew up in Bhubaneswar, India, 300 miles south of Calcutta, and later studied film at Harvard. These days she lives mostly in New York City (she teaches at Columbia University) and Kampala, Uganda (her husband Mahmood Mamdani is a native). But her connection to Thackeray is long-standing. "I've actively loved this novel since I was 16," she says. The broad strokes of India in the film, she adds defensively, are mostly from Thackeray, who spent his early childhood in what was then a British colony. "My criterion for doing something is, Can I think of anyone else...