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...work was all about outsiders, from Indian immigrants in America to strippers in Bombay, and her Oscar-nominated first feature, 1988's Salaam Bombay!, had a city street orphan for its hero. Nair enjoyed an art-house hit in 1992 with Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Washington. It was an exuberant, surprising interracial romance about the American South, motels and the Asian expulsion from Uganda. (Got that?) She met her second husband, Ugandan political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, while researching that film and spent nine years living mostly in Africa...
...waiter claimed that the Chicken Makhni was “universally likable,” so we decided to give it a try. It was basically Chicken Tikka Masala, except more flavorful and buttery; the sauce was divinely smooth, and the pieces of chicken were tantalizingly tender, but we could feel our arteries clogging up from the luscious thickness of the butter. Abiding by our creative editor’s distaste towards spiciness, we requested everything to be ordered in mild. Good thing we did, as the dishes were already spicy at mild. We also sampled the Chicken Saagwala, which...
They made the right choice. Since distancing themselves from the manufactured sounds and styles of London's Asian club scene, the duo hase created its own, highly original kind of music. It's a sonic masala of traditional tablas, sitars, flutes and strings stirred together with just about every spice in the Western pop pantry, including drum 'n' bass, garage, funk and reggae. All the elements are on display on Signs (Outcaste), their thrilling second CD. "This music works as well in Norway as it does in London or New York," Sriram says. "People like to get their heads blown...
...exactly is this guy? Losers IRA EINHORN Old hippie activist is finally extradited for the murder of his girlfriend. Says a government plot kept him stoned in the Riviera for 20 years INDIA THE CAT Bombay protesters object to President Bush's cat's name. Then argue whether masala chai "tastes great" or is "less filling" KIM MATHERS Eminem's ex faces drug charge after she's nailed on warrant for disturbing peace. With so much in common, these two should have worked...
...candidates to refrain from stirring up racial hostility. It sounds harmless, but some refused on the grounds that it was wrong for the group to enforce "political correctness." Shortly thereafter, Foreign Secretary Robin Cook suggested - to some derision - that Britain's multicultural success was shown by chicken tikka masala becoming the country's most popular dish. Then a retiring Tory backbencher raised temperatures when he said the British were becoming a "mongrel" race through immigration. Hague forced him to apologize. The gusts of opinion that these incidents provoked are signs of how hard Britain is finding it to answer...