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...Agarwalla brothers - the maverick team that brought a wildly popular Scrabble knockoff to Facebook last year, just scored another bingo against Hasbro. A day after Hasbro filed a lawsuit to force the duo based in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, to take down Scrabulous, the software developers quietly launched a new, roll-your-own version on Facebook. The move appears to cleverly sidestep legal issues while giving the 500,000 fans of Scrabulous a way to thumb their noses at the Man - and play the version of Scrabble they want...
...cantos of the Buddhacarita are spectacularly imagined. The theologian Ashvaghosha's ancient epic courses over 80 years, the entirety of the Buddha's journey toward nirvana and death. It fleshes out, warts and all, the more popular image of the Buddha as an eternally serene spiritual master. First, there's his auspicious birth, as Siddhartha Gautama, in the 6th century B.C. in what is now Nepal. His family is so obscenely rich ("like the Indus with the rush of waters") that they sacrifice 100,000 milk cows for the occasion. A diviner foretells Siddhartha's salvific destiny: "This...
...exhibition - commissioned by a South Korean publishing company at a cost of around $2 million - has been a raging success. In fact, it is poised to become the most popular photography exhibit ever held in South Korea. Since early July, more than 42,000 visitors have strolled through the doors of the Hangaram Art Museum at the Seoul Arts Center, www.sac.or.kr, and another 50,000 visitors are expected to view the images before the show wraps...
...decades the prime, often the only, representative of an entire continent, Africa, and a world religion, Islam--though his family was Christian and his heritage Lebanese and Greek. He was both a nationalist and an internationalist, both an art-house auteur and a director of movies that were popular from Morocco to Indonesia...
...Still, political Islam never really went away. The AKP is the latest in a long line of faith-based parties banned by the courts, only to reemerge in a new guise on the back of a solid base of popular support. Unlike its predecessors, the AKP has steered clear of inflammatory Islamist rhetoric, pursued aggressively liberal economic policies and advocated for Turkey's joining the European Union...