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...opposite." But there is more passion than reasoned argument here. Urbanization, for example, may be destroying rural communities, but it also liberates people from the appalling restrictions of village life. Roy couldn't care a whit for such subtleties - yet to fault her for that is to miss the point of a polemic. She demands an emotive response to the horrible injustices that go largely unnoticed in a world distracted by images of cricket gods, Bollywood glamour and Nano cars. In language of terrible beauty, she takes India's everyday tragedies and reminds us to be outraged all over again...
...novel (national epic, family saga and testy teen drama knotted into one) meanders - including an abrupt jaunt to Granada, where Zakia and Zaki vacation just so, it seems, Sethi can make a point about the high potential of Islamic culture. And it's burdened by clichés: the love of all things Bollywood; mingy mothers-in-law; the kid who escapes to an American university. Still, Sethi's sharp eye, worthy of being an entomologist's, makes the book a steadily absorbing read, all 400-plus pages of it. Recollecting his first day at a private boy's academy...
...with that of the U.S. will be the day that this world collapses, due to depleted natural resources and accelerated global warming. These nations must take active steps toward reducing the effects of their commendable growth within the next 20 years or so. What's the point in getting rich if there is no world left to sustain your life, let alone enjoying your new gains? Yes, China can indeed help save the world: by not walking the same mistaken path that the supposed First World nations have been blindly stumbling along ever since the industrial revolution. Tawit Chitsomboon, Nakornratchasima...
...Obama's Health-Care Drama Your story on the battle over health care was timely [Aug. 10]. Unfortunately, the President's plan misses a fundamental point. Our flawed legal system is largely responsible for the way doctors defensively practice medicine and the pharmaceutical and insurance companies and hospitals gouge consumers unlike anywhere else in the world. Nowhere else are there as many malpractice suits as in the U.S. Shame on the lawyers who load the judicial system with phony lawsuits. Without appropriate malpractice reform, nothing will improve. Sudhir K. Bhaskar, Orlando...
...city's musical diversity. Granted, some of the listening experience lacks polish, not least because, in their zeal to forward the cause of Hong Kong music, the promoters have included two tracks from each act; at 22 songs, the album cries out for editing. But that's a secondary point. As on any Underground night, the bands are here to plug in and strut their stuff. The world may think of Hong Kong music as consisting of gaudily dressed balladeers, elfin starlets and jobbing jazz trios in hotel lobbies. The kids know better...