Word: sharma
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...filed her 1998 and 1999 tax forms on time,” said Karen E. Sharma, a campaign spokesperson, yesterday...
Opponents of change base their case on tradition. Constitutional lawyer Ganesh Raj Sharma, who is advising the Nepali government, says any amendment would be disastrous. "Look what happened in India," he says. "Hindu women have been given full inheritance rights and now husbands and in-laws are killing wives to get their share of the family property." Oddly, the urban young, too, seem to support the status quo. A radio call-in program on the pop station KATH FM found few in favor of reform. "Women don't need property rights. They need respect and something more," Uma Raj Bhandari...
Your exhaustive report on what may lie ahead this century in work and world affairs [VISIONS 21, May 22] seemed like the concepts of an imagination gone wild. But given today's fast-changing times, anything is possible. ANJOO SHARMA Hyderabad, India...
Like many dutiful sons, Sharma had to satisfy the practical ambitions of his parents. He picked up a degree in public policy and English at Princeton and a creative-writing fellowship at Stanford. Sharma next steered for Los Angeles, where he wrote scripts that he describes as "a wife-swapping murder mystery and an illness-of-the-week movie." Then, before anyone could ask, What is a nice Hindu boy doing in a place like this?, Sharma left Hollywood for Harvard Law School. He is now a New York City investment banker...
...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...