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...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Mega Power Outage N.Korea/Vietnam: Love in the Time of Kim India: Naipaul's Friendly Fire Milestones...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Mega Power Outage N.Korea/Vietnam: Love in the Time of Kim India: Naipaul's Friendly Fire Milestones...
...NOTEBOOK Indonesia: Mega Power Outage N.Korea/Vietnam: Love in the Time of Kim India: Naipaul's Friendly Fire Milestones...
FLUSHING OUT HISTORY Bare-bottomed squatters beside railway lines are many tourists' first?and sometimes lasting?impression of India. Even Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, revolted upon visiting his ancestral homeland, once raged that "Indians defecate everywhere ... they never look for cover." It is therefore a bit surprising to find in New Delhi the world's only museum dedicated to the history of the toilet. But then this is a small museum with a big mission, as the sign opposite the entrance reading OPEN DEFECATION?SOCIAL CURSE can attest...
...established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui. Foreign translations - a significant part of French publishing output - include new books by Nadine Gordimer, Jim Harrison, V.S. Naipaul and Jonathan Franzen. All that ensures enough quality and variety for returning vacationers to read themselves out of any rentrée blues...