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...overstretched. Bantul's hospital does not have enough beds for all the injured, and some are parked in cots in the hallways or on bamboo mats on the floor. Even the healthy are taking shelter in hospitals. "For every patient you have three to four family members," says Harsaran Pandey, the World Health Organization's spokesperson for Southeast Asia. "A lot of the inpatients [stay] because they and their families have no place to go. As no hospital is geared to deal with such a large human populace on its premises, this is putting a heavy strain on water...
...mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat poverty in urban and rural areas. Unless these two future superpowers make efforts to bring all social classes under their umbrella of success, we cannot be euphoric over their one-dimensional growth. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...mainly by lack of infrastructure, rampant corruption and the absence of realistic programs to combat poverty in urban and rural areas. Unless these two future superpowers make efforts to bring all social classes under their umbrella of success, we cannot be euphoric over their one-dimensional growth. Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India Communication Trouble The report on selective mutism, the childhood disorder that keeps youngsters from speaking in public places [Feb. 6], reminded me of the importance of having continuous communication between schools and parents in order to evaluate and individualize the education for each student. It remains...
...First to criticize the film were nationalistically minded viewers who didn't like the fact that it shows Pandey cavorting with prostitutes, consuming the narcotic bhang, and even befriending a "Britisher"?the film is structured around a friendship between Pandey and an English officer named Gordon. The director, Ketan Mehta, has a reasonable defense: the movie begins with a disclaimer, stating that it's a hybrid of fact and fiction. Not much is known about Pandey's life, and the film invents liberally; yet there is some plausibility to its inventions. No one knows, for example, whether or not Pandey...
...hero of a kind rarely seen in Indian movies. And that's riled up another set of the movie's critics?an iconoclastic group that delights in punching holes in the heroes that many Indians hold sacred. This lot, shooting off columns in magazines and papers, has suggested that Pandey wasn't fighting for India, which didn't even exist in 1857, but was just a village boy furious that he couldn't be a good Hindu because of the animal fat on his cartridges. The iconoclasts might be onto something?the film's portrayal of Pandey as a progressive...