Word: mishra
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...India began the thaw, with a plan worked out between Vajpayee and a formerly obscure Indian bureaucrat, Brajesh Mishra, a 72-year-old chain-smoker from the Prime Minister's home state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. A former ambassador to China, Mishra is now the Prime Minister's most trusted adviser, his Principal Secretary and his National Security chief. Rivals describe him as the second-most powerful man in India. In 1999, Mishra overturned Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking...
...more read about than read. The new wavelet of young writers with ties to the subcontinent should be more welcoming to an American public, which includes an increasing number of residents from that region. "There's a very highly educated second generation of readers within that community," notes Pankaj Mishra, 31, who lives in Mashobra and is the author of The Romantics (Random House; 260 pages...
...Mishra's creamy narrative about a young Brahman's student days on the banks of the Ganges is reminiscent of one of those mildly exotic stories that turned up regularly in the old New Yorker. Mishra's eye is sharp, his prose flawless. But his hero is a bit detached, a kind of secular holy man who would rather commune with the deities of Western literature than embrace the reality around...
...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...
...wear priest's robes, she let him buy a forbidden pair of trousers. His education helped him understand threats to the Ganges, and since 1982 he has struggled to open the eyes of bureaucrats and the public. Supported in part by aid from the U.S. and Swedish governments, Mishra juggles his roles as priest and activist. As he takes a call from Washington inviting him to a waste-management conference, he silently raises his hand to bless an old man with a huge vermilion mark on his forehead who is bending over Mishra's feet. "I don't know...