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...police? The 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...

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

...Ostensible professor clearly an escaping criminal who beat up real professor; buff, bearded, heavily-tattooed “Helen Vendler” threatens students in front row with shiv-like sharpened coursepack when they refuse to hand over “smokes?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Things I Look For in a Class | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...Bombay) 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 »

...research, published in the Journal of Virology, trumpets Harvard’s creation of the first infectious molecular clone and the first SHIV chimera of the African based HIV subtype C clone...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AIDS Researchers Tout Successes | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...Invest in ADM!" b) "Beam me up!" c) "Toss me a shiv!" d) "I can't sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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