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...SALAAM, Tanzania —My parents, friends and relatives wondered how I’d ever get by here. I like the amenities of life in the developed world—decent cups of tea served loose leaf with similarly decent china, pan-Asian cuisine, good gin, clean bathrooms with toilets instead of ceramic holes. The Third World, despite my academic interest in its colonization, just didn’t seem to fit with my palate or hygienic pattern...
...sure enough, the food at the University of Dar es Salaam was awful. Mornings are a piece of fried bread (called chapati), a blockish hunk of porridge and a cup of foul tea. The saving grace, of course, is that these unappetizing and meager tidings cost around 400 shillings, the equivalent of 35 cents...
...resulting movie, Salaam Bombay!, was Nair’s 1988 debut feature film. It tells the story of the hand-to-mouth existence of a group of street kids in Bombay, bringing Nair to the fore of the public’s attention and earning her an Oscar nomination. Nair went on to prove with her subsequent films that her success was no mere beginner’s luck...
...Cultural Grand Salaam" [MAY 3], you finally reported on the growing popularity in the U.S of the music, movies and literature of South Asia! It is difficult to convey the beauty and creative power of the subcontinent to my American friends, most of whom barely know where South Asia is located. It's time they learned about my culture and the irresistible tunes in Bollywood musicals. MONIKA MATHUR Southbury, Conn...
...told me that I shouldn't view her as poor. "I am well-educated. I drive my own car," she said, waving her hand around her neatly arranged, well-swept tent as if to compare it with those of her messier neighbors. The proud woman's son Fahad Salaam, 15, was playing in the front yard of the family home in Fallujah a few weeks ago when he was killed by a piece of shrapnel from an American bomb. "Where are the human rights in Iraq now?" she asked me. "Where is the freedom? Where is the democracy...