Word: saris
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However bad it gets, there are some traditions from the old days that Kitty Teixeire refuses to let die. She greets visitors barefoot in a bedraggled sari at the doorless entrance to her collapsing bungalow. But when she serves coffee, she covers her splintered table with a white cloth and pours into what may be the only set of matching cups and saucers for hundreds of kilometers. "It was such a beautiful place," she sighs in her clipped vowels, a gift of her mixed Welsh, Portuguese and Indian blood. "But McCluskieganj just went down and down. Down the drain...
...doctor in the Fuchsia Sari leaned over her desk and took my hand like a fortune-teller. "Just as I thought," she murmured, feeling my pulse. "Too much kapha." She glanced at the symptoms on my chart?fatigue, irritability and the occasional blinding migraine?and scribbled a prescription. "Don't worry, we can help you." A day later, I was in treatment, lying flat on my back with a thin stream of heated oil drizzling onto my forehead. For 40 min. two barefoot attendants poured a pungent green oil over my brow in a gentle back and forth motion...
...billionaire tech-mogul husband and lives with her teenage son, Rabi, and her Hungarian “mistri,” Andy. Mukherjee carefully weaves among various incidents in Tara’s past and the unfolding drama of her present. Each foray into the past peels away another sari, unveiling heretofore unknown layers of meaning in Tara’s life...
...keeps up a mobile-phone patter with his stock-market-mad mother. Nair insists this world is Indian - and, more to the point, Punjabi and New Delhi - to its core. "It's a film made at my dining table," she says. "The Prada miniskirt in the morning and the sari at night. It's just the way we live...
...strengthen Palestinian democracy - a direct challenge to the authoritarian cronyism of Arafat's regime - and a shift back towards non-violent protest against Israel's occupation in what they consider to be an "overly-militarized intifada." And Arafat's own point-man in Jerusalem, the philosophy professor Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, has ruffled feathers by publicly urging his countrymen to drop the demand for the right of return by 3 million Palestinian refugees to Israel proper - a demand Arafat himself continues to evince as an article of faith. Nusseibeh has also conceded that the future Palestinian state would have to remain...