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directed by Mira Nair...
Jose Alberto Potuombo is sitting in La Atarraya, the cafe he manages across the street from the great bay, attempting to hear Fidel Castro on his Korean- made boom box. But there are distractions. A crowd is forming on the seawall across the way. "Ven aqui! Ven, mira!" yell the little children, and people are indeed coming and looking. Now there is a crowd of 70, staring down into the water. They laugh, they cheer. Some drivers stop, others honk and yell, "Balseros! Balseros! A Miami! A Miami!" (Rafters! To Miami!) Potuombo scans the scene sourly. "Let the bastards...
...their shares for cash stumbled out of the building, with cardboard boxes and plastic bags bulging with rubles, to shouts from the assembled crowd: "Is there any money left?" A few yelled imprecations on Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and central bank chairman Viktor Gerashenko, but many were simply philosophical. Mira, a chemistry researcher who earns 60,000 rubles, or $30, a month, stood in line for 24 hours, hoping to redeem 70 shares. "Hey, it's a risky game," she shrugged. And it is still being widely played. MMM is by far the largest investment fund in Russia, but about...
Thank you for your feature story on Mira Nair ("A Harvard Filmmaker Stirs Things Up" November 11, 1993). We are pleased that attention was given to the screening of "Mississippi Masala" and the reception with Nair the next day. The event came about as a result of the diligent efforts of Education for Action and the South Asian Association...
...material for this article came from a personal interview with Mira Nair and from a taped informal discussion with Nair, sponsored by Education for Action...