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...student group IMPACT ran the pageant as a fund raiser supporting grassroots charities in Nepal, Kenya, Gambia and China, and according to IMPACT President Oliver Soong ’04, the event brought in just over...
...MISS HARVARD PAGEANT. It’s what Miss America would be like if you were to upgrade brains and talent, and add a few men in drag. Presented by IMPACT to raise money for education and emergency relief in Kenya, Gambia, China and Nepal. Friday, March 14, at 9 p.m. Tickets $6, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. Leverett House Dining Hall...
...come to his house anymore, that he could no longer tutor her. Or perhaps crawl into bed next to her." With little resistance from either party, Ramchandra and Malati are soon crawling, stumbling and falling into bed together. I'm not sure what the term is in Nepal, but in the U.S. it's called a midlife crisis...
...financial worries and guilty infidelities group Ramchandra with literature's familiar middle-class husbands. Upadhyay's detached descriptions of Kathmandu are rinsed of the exotic, adding to the sense that he is treading on familiar ground. Still, we never forget that Ramchandra and Malati are in Nepal, not New Bedford. Their first fumbling attempt at a tryst, in a city park, is interrupted by a horde of rampaging monkeys. Not the kind of thing that happens to adulterers in John Cheever's work...
...Unlike many of its neighbors, Nepal was never colonized by the English or their language, but Upadhyay is hardly operating in a cultural vacuum. One of the first Nepali writers to publish fiction in the West, he has been called the "Buddhist Chekhov." He's not Anton Chekhov, but he is Buddhist, and the influence of the religion?observant, detached, cyclical?is richly apparent. Cycles are everywhere. Ramchandra's passion waxes and wanes. Even as he descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop...