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...Just as soon as it is revealed that the murderer is Max’s Kashmiri chauffeur, the enigmatic title character, the narrative dives into a distant past inexorably linked to the present.The second segment, entitled “Boonyi,” details the budding romance between Noman Sher Noman, also known as Shalimar, and Boonyi Kaur, his future wife and India’s future mother. Rushdie’s lush descriptions of the fertile valleys and formidable mountains of Kashmir lure the reader into the gorgeous terrain and the jovial lifestyle of the villagers of Pachigam before...
...SENTENCED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, former Prime Minister of Nepal; to two years in prison for embezzlement; in Kathmandu. After Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power this February, he established a controversial corruption commission that charged Deuba with involvement in a $5.3 million fraudulent deal to award a road construction contract. Deuba has denounced the verdict as "political assassination" and has vowed to fight his conviction. He is the highest-ranking Nepalese leader ever to be found guilty of corruption...
...CLEARED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, Nepal's former Prime Minister; of corruption charges; by the Royal Commission for Corruption Control (R.C.C.C.); in Kathmandu. Six other former ministers were cleared of similar charges. Deuba was sacked in February when King Gyanendra seized power and accused him of failing to put down Nepal's bloody nine-year Maoist rebellion. Arrested in April after he refused to be questioned by the R.C.C.C., Deuba remains in police custody pending a decision on a separate embezzlement charge...
...three months after he dissolved the government and suspended civil liberties in a move widely condemned by human-rights groups and foreign governments; in Kathmandu. Despite the end of emergency rule, the King will maintain the controversial Royal Commission for Corruption Control, which last week arrested former Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba amid alleged irregularities in multi-million dollar drinking-water contracts awarded during his tenure. Mr. Deuba has denied the charges, calling the Commission "unconstitutional" and "illegal...
Among more conventional stagings of the Bard's work, the R.S.C. offers an electrifying Richard III with Anthony Sher hurtling around the stage as a disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...