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...general silliness and fun, it also reinvigorates the institution of the drag queen, giving her a shiny, unique appeal. Surrounded by her “assistants”—your usual boys in wigs—Gheri Dosti’s surprise-in-a-sari uses traditional dance moves to intrigue (she is played by Sudarshan Belsare, a classically trained Bharantanatyam dancer). The power in her moves may be manly, but the sensitivity with which they are executed makes them “disconcerting” in the best sense...
...foreign traveler, this is precisely the attraction. You haven't been preceded by backpacking squads of gap-year Europeans; there are no sari-clad Swiss ladies or gentle Australian retirees asking directions to the nearest Ayurvedic spa. As a result the touts and taxi drivers are smiling, open-faced na?fs by the rapacious standards of India's tourism hot spots, and the infrastructure is gratifyingly nonexistent. All you get is unmediated India. And an awful...
Dressed in a traditional blue sari and blue jeans, Nair peppered her speech with anecdotes about the filming of Monsoon Wedding, whose cast, she joked, was made up of family members, “whoever was free...
...Jazeera and rival satellite channels did cover the celebrations that broke out once Saddam's regime crumbled, but TV watchers were not interpreting it as viewers did in the West. "The people don't really know what they're doing," says Amman sociologist Sari Nasir, explaining away the joy. "It's collective behavior." Others expressed humiliation at the walloping defeat of the Iraqi forces, as well as scorn for those who welcomed foreign tanks into the city. "To see our dignity wiped out like that, I am ashamed to be an Arab," says Cairo physician Khaled Ragab...
...Police had previously identified an Indonesian named Iqbal as the likely carrier of the smaller bomb, which ripped through Paddy's Irish Pub 21 seconds before the main blast outside the Sari Club across the street. But investigators now believe he was responsible for detonating the bigger bomb outside the Sari Club, and not for the smaller blast. "He could have been sitting there in the van with people pouring out of the Sari Club, even staring in the windows, when he set it off," says a source close to the investigation...