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...clear, in other words, that subtlety isn’t the point. Instead, as the preparations for an arranged marriage between two wealthy New Delhi families unfold, we engage in the heady rush towards the cosmopolitanism which India’s burgeoning middle classes have so eagerly embraced. Mira Nair ’79 of Salaam Bombay and Mississipi Masala fame has often been criticized for selling Indian poverty in documentary form to the West. Monsoon Wedding represents a stark departure from these previous features. Making little or no attempt to represent income disparities, it instead celebrates the joys...
...hectare island can be walked in about an hour and a half. Go in the late afternoon, when the air is cooler and families sit out on their front porches preparing dinner. After a few hours of hearing nothing louder than the calls of cranes, Bangkok's rush and roar will be forgotten. The river oasis can be reached by water taxi from Nonthaburi for about $7 for a round trip...
...friendliest of the four crew members, watched the waking river for a while and asked me how I was enjoying the trip. "It's good for tourists to see the real Thai lifestyle," he said. "They don't see it in Bangkok. There it's just rush rush rush...
...motored back to the 21st century in an air-conditioned bus. It was only 24 hours later, but I felt like I had taken a week's holiday?until we hit Bangkok's evening rush hour. I got out of the bus. It was faster to walk...
...here at Harvard sometimes leave them feeling less than human. No matter how tempting it is to lay the blame on University President Lawrence H. Summers or members of the Harvard Corporation, they are not the people who leave trays out on tables in the dining hall in the rush to get to class on time. Nor do they lazily trample through freshly-swept piles of dirt, too apathetic to worry about the new messes that they have tracked across the floor. They are not the ones who refuse to take a mere five seconds out of an otherwise hectic...