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Opponents of change base their case on tradition. Constitutional lawyer Ganesh Raj Sharma, who is advising the Nepali government, says any amendment would be disastrous. "Look what happened in India," he says. "Hindu women have been given full inheritance rights and now husbands and in-laws are killing wives to get their share of the family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari...
...Drums." An oddment from Alexander Korda in the late '30s; the Raj and Great Game, with Sabu truckling to The Man and, as so often in films of the era, an astonishingly blithe and racist narrative wherein all enemies of the British colonials are mad cult leaders with snake pits and strange gods. The mad cult leaders are played by scrawny Jewish character actors darkened with shoe polish...
...Behind the hype is an eloquent, lyrical tale. The House of Blue Mangoes (Weidenfield & Nicolson/Viking; 416 pages) is the sweeping story of a southern Indian family, spanning a half-century from 1899 to 1947. Against the backdrop of the British Raj, two world wars and the struggle for independence, it chronicles three generations of a Tamil family?the Dorais?and through them depicts the caste tensions that simmer just below the surface in the Indian countryside. Davidar is at his best when he weaves the family's struggles with vibrant images of rural life...
Bangalore has been many things in its 500-year history, but its most recent incarnation as a trendy town on the move makes India's fifth-largest city the ideal locale for a subcontinental pub crawl. Once a small protectorate of the Mysore Raj, Bangalore is now the fastest-growing metropolis in India. The meteoric rise of the city's I.T. industry earned it the moniker the Silicon Valley of Asia. Lifetime residents, however, know it as the Garden City, where lush forests and endless blossoms of golden and pink acacias dot with shimmering color even the grimiest roads...
...Clearly, Gore won the debate," said Raj Prabhakar, a student at Harvard Business School. "Bush didn't have the intellect to compete...