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...been hoping for a son. "But out came Kalpana," her mother told the Week magazine in India, "who has achieved more than a boy could." Kalpana decided she wanted to be a space engineer by the time she was 14 and was the only woman to study aeronautics at Punjab Engineering College. Still, the idea of going to America was a shock to the members of her traditional family, and they agreed only on the grounds that her brother Sanjay would come with her to settle her in. She became an astronaut in 1994 and flew her first shuttle mission...
After Bhutto's release from prison last month, her lieutenants fell to wrangling over why the wave of protest against her arrest had never materialized. Intraparty squabbles broke out in Sind province and in more populous Punjab. Particularly distressing was the resignation of the party's president in Sind, Makhdoom Khaliq Uzzaman, who insisted on quitting even though Bhutto begged him to stay...
Still, there was relief that one of India's worst crises appeared to be coming to an end. As the Calcutta daily Telegraph put it, "We pray that from today the history of Punjab will once again be written in gold--not in blood.'' --By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by K.K. Sharma/New Delhi
...surface, it's an inspired idea to transpose Austen's comedy of impeccable manners from the county of Hertfordshire to a proper middle-class family in Amritsar, Punjab. Both 19th century Britain and modern India are societies with strict modes of behavior, where subversion is practiced with a raised eyebrow. (A recent, pretty decent Pride and Prejudice, available onDVD, was set amid another cloistered group, young Mormons.) But Chadha and co-writer Paul Mayeda Berges seem less interested in explaining India's social conservatism than in larkishly mocking it, pinching the cheeks of the supporting characters until they blush into...
...Pakistan got a boost last week after some hotel hopping diplomacy in New York City. First, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH traveled to the Roosevelt Hotel to meet PAKISTAN PRESIDENT PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, who gave him a painting of Singh's boyhood hometown, the village of Gah in Pakistan's Punjab province, and one of his old report cards. Then the two men had a one-on-one meeting without aides that lasted an hour. Later in the day, Musharraf traveled five blocks to Singh's hotel, the New York Palace, where the two delivered a joint statement saying their talk...