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...ROMESH RATNESAR joined TIME in 1997 and wrote his first story for the magazine on new ways to teach students math. Since then, he has profiled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, written our initial story on Monica Lewinsky and landed on a missile cruiser off the coast of Bahrain to detail the American military buildup against Iraq. This week Ratnesar returns to the classroom for our cover story on homework. "Reporting on education is always intriguing," he says, "because while we seem able to reach a loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic...
...Romesh Ratnesar. Reported by John F. Dickerson and Douglas Waller/Washington
...purpose label of "Anglo-Indian" writing covers a multitude of sins and that too many serious craftsmen are being massed under the Orientalist tent. Abraham Verghese's vision, full of the earnest self-inquiry of a foreigner taking America to his heart, might seem as alien to Romesh Gunesekera as Gunesekera's wrenching, elegiac tales, fragrant with the sea air of his lost Sri Lanka, might be to Verghese. Yet the two of them, an Ethiopian-born Indian Christian now living in Texas and a Sinhalese exile based in London, owe something to South Asia as each produces...
...Romesh Ratnesar...
...With reporting by Romesh Ratnesar/New York...