Word: shahs
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...Persepolis is that rare hybrid: an autobiographical animated feature. Based on Satrapi's four graphic novels, published in France beginning in 2000, the movie is a very personal, painful and somehow larkish retelling of her growing up Iranian under the repressive regime of the Shah (she was nine when he was overthrown), then under the even more brutal and soul-grinding Islamic Republic, before she emigrated to Europe as a student. She spends time back in Tehran with her family, and getting married, finally coming to rest in Paris, where she launched a career translating her and her family...
...their confinement and torture. When the clerics take over, Marji shows her defiance in ways both adolescent and forthright. She'll buy an Iron Maiden CD on the black market, and in school she tells her black-scarved teacher, "We've gone from 3,000 [political] prisoners under the Shah to 300,000 under you." The film tracks Marjane's growing pains (shown literally, with body parts expanding in a split second), her love affairs with creepy or cheating Austrians, her emotional breakdowns...
...Dandiya ’09 and Dhruv Maheshwari ’09 as co-presidents for the upcoming academic year. Dandiya and Maheshwari said yesterday that they plan to launch a number of new initiatives, in addition to continuing the efforts of outgoing co-presidents Mayuri N. Shah ’08 and Rohan Kekre ’08. Shah and Kekre have spent their tenure implementing a lecture series and starting a summer fellows program. According to Dandiya, one of SAA’s main goals next year will be organizing a Pan-Ivy South Asian conference...
...Amid the national soul-searching now under way, the BCCI says it will meet in Mumbai next week to analyze what went wrong. Chappell and Dravid will have their say. "We are disappointed but will listen to everything with an open mind," BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah told the Hindustan Times. But the pressure for change is already building. A non-scientific Times of India survey found that 87% of readers think Dravid should be removed as captain, while 92% feel one-time star batsman Sachin Tendulkar should be axed altogether. To the question "Is something fundamentally wrong with...
...afternoon, the tour takes in the mausoleum of 18th century ruler Timur Shah, as well as the Shah-do-Shamshira Mosque. En route to the tour's last stop-the renovated gardens and tomb of Babur, who asked that his remains be buried in his favorite city-Rahimi points out the stadium where the Taliban beheaded murderers and stoned adulterers. Violent, summary justice is what many people would think of when it comes to this city. But these days, Rahimi says, the stadium is used for sports once more, and is where the country's 2008 Olympic athletes are being...