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...science of tsunamis, set up patrols to stop looters and opened a nursery, a students' dormitory, a nutrition center and a teacher-training facility. He even held a kite-flying contest to encourage children to return to the beach. "What didn't he do?" asks police inspector Thushara Sena, 32. "He pulled people out, buried the dead ones and fed the live ones. He was the man people went to for everything. Still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 6 Tales of Courage | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...India's standards, though, reactions to the blasts were relatively subdued. There was no violent Hindu response, as has happened so often in the past, and the charges against Pakistan seemed somewhat half hearted. Even Bombay's BJP-allied Shiv Sena party, normally vociferously anti-Pakistan, held an uncharacteristically silent protest march. The change from a year ago?when India and Pakistan were on the brink of war and New Delhi seized any opportunity to point a finger directly at Islamabad?is "striking," says a Western diplomat in Delhi. "India knows that this is a local issue, but 18 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloody Monday | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...make her characters memorable, Kitagawa incorporates in her scripts conversations and events from her own life. Bouncing a small rubber ball out of the window, as Minami and Sena (Takuya Kimura) do in Long Vacation, for instance, is what she and her brother used to do at home. "Some writers just write to attract an audience because they think the content will appeal and not because they're personally connected to the material," says the 41-year-old mother of one. "But in my case, every drama comes from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soap Dish | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...courts? Koirala tried that. She brought a suit against a director who had used a double for a nude scene in her film Ek Chhoti Si Love Story. Last month, she lost the case. So she sought help from another powerful gang in Bombay: the Hindu chauvinist Shiv Sena political party. Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray considers himself the protector of Hindu culture, even as his boys, like the bhais, win adherents by force. When Love Story was released, Shiv Sena activists attacked the theaters, ripped up billboards and threatened owners to stop screenings of the film. In Bombay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Married to the Mob | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

...restaurants had stopped serving Coke and Pepsi, offering only traditional Indian yoghurt drinks as a means of protesting U.S. air strikes against Afghanistan. Many more of the city's Muslim restaurateurs are expected to join the boycott of U.S. products. So the enterprising paper asked the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party, which has previously organized similar boycotts to protest globalization's onslaught on Indian culture, whether the party would be joining. The boycott makes no sense, sniffed the party spokesmen. Of course it doesn't - Shiv Sena is part of a Hindu-nationalist led government supporting the U.S. campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What They're Saying About the War | 11/1/2001 | See Source »

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