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...right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what's still wrong with India. In the last few years, thousands of impoverished farmers have committed suicide in the barren, drought-stricken land outside the metropolis. For some, despair has turned to anger at the shiny city on the horizon, and their forsaken fields are now a front line in a little-noticed war between security forces and an estimated 10,000 Marxist guerrillas. In a land-mine attack a few hours...
That said, I was somewhat intrigued by the prospect of J.R. Ward’s “Lover Eternal,” another addition to the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. “Lover Eternal” chronicles the passionate affair between the vampire Rhage and the cancer-stricken human Mary Luce—it’s “Love Story” with fangs...
...culprit of that before I left,” says Gann, who studied at La Sorbonne. What separates Panarelli’s and Datar’s experiences from students like Gann’s is perhaps the tremendous difference in lifestyle between urban cities like Paris and poverty-stricken countries like Tanzania. For Panarelli, the lack of technology in Tanzania was both an obstacle and a learning experience. While grateful for the lack of modernization which helped her place more value on material comfort, by the end, she missed the convenience of hot water and electricity. In Datar?...
Helen Smith's past is one she would just as soon forget. A child of Chicago's housing projects, she ended up turning tricks, but the cash lined the pockets of her polio-stricken pimp named Crip. "I'd probably make $200 a night, but he took it all. I was the young one, and they liked to show me off, but I didn't know what I was doing," she says...
...Kathmandu might have told us) is change. Suddenly, Nepal, haunted by violent Maoist insurgents on the one hand and an autocratic King on the other, is the country that is difficult for tourists to enjoy, its streets silent after dark, its character less free and easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels for $700 a night, and hear about the local incarnate lama who is fêted in Hollywood for his movie The Cup. Thimphu is the place...