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With so many Indian consumers still opting for the traditional sari, it's not surprising that menswear would be the fashion category leading the subcontinent into the world of luxury. There are other factors, like the climate, that explain the popularity of menswear brands like Louis Philippe and Crocodile. In India, shirts are considered outerwear, and these two brands are well-known shirtmakers. Other high-scoring local brands such as Park Avenue, Allen Solly and Reid & Taylor focus mainly on men's business and formal attire (although they do manufacture women's lines and traditional Indian clothing)?which means...
...East Asian films - not just China but Korea, Japan, Thailand." The festival is also expanding its coverage of Bollywood directors. "In the last five years," he notes, "they've been seeking a wider international audience, so they've been toning down their more risible cultural specificities." (Translation: fewer wet-sari production numbers.) This year Rituparno Ghosh's The Last Lear will play in Toronto, with all-time megastar Amitabh Bachchan - India's Brando and Fred Astaire in one big, bearded package - gracing the event...
...Mother Teresa, the "Saint of the Gutters," went to Oslo. Dressed in her signature blue-bordered sari and shod in sandals despite below-zero temperatures, the former Agnes Bojaxhiu received that ultimate worldly accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize. In her acceptance lecture, Teresa, whose Missionaries of Charity had grown from a one-woman folly in Calcutta in 1948 into a global beacon of self-abnegating care, delivered the kind of message the world had come to expect from her. "It is not enough for us to say, 'I love God, but I do not love my neighbor,'" she said, since...
...factories making their toys and tennis shoes moved to Mexico or China. Customers are unlikely to care-or know-whether their computer program was written in India or the U.S. For customers, it doesn't make much difference if their tax preparer, telephone operator or loan processor wears a sari and works in Delhi or wears a baseball cap and works in Baltimore...
...this rule. Can a chronicle of a life embroiled in controversy be, in its frank treatment of family, personal, and international history, free of that controversy? This seems to be the goal of “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” written by Sari Nusseibeh in collaboration with Anthony David. Yet though the story itself is not an argument, many of Nusseibeh’s views are embedded in its telling. He denounces policies of violence on both sides, recounting stories of unwarranted arrests, tortures, and evictions of Palestinians from their homes by Israeli officials...