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Over the past year we've been painfully reminded that the clash of cultures can be horrific. Hindus and Muslims slaughtering one another on the subcontinent. Jews and Palestinians locked in a death grip on the Levant. Extremist Muslims declaring jihad on America and destroying cherished symbols of that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup Preview: We are the World | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

To call Kashmir the subcontinent's West Bank or Gaza Strip would be a stretch. The Kashmir Valley, the heart and soul of the territory, is one of the earth's lovelier places. Many Kashmiris are poor, but no one lives in 50-year-old refugee settlements. Unlike the Palestinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Place for Kids | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

But it's a homeland more and more are abandoning because Kashmir is where the tension between India and Pakistan always surfaces. Kashmir is the biggest bit of unfinished business from the partition of the subcontinent 53 years ago. Pakistan still believes it shouldn't have gone to India, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Place for Kids | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

Kashmiris are a people in-between, stuck in the vise of a vicious, intractable geopolitical mess, and even when they leave, their fate sometimes follows. Syed Shahnaaz Qadiri decided to move out of Kashmir four years ago. His choice was to go to another state, where the school years start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Place for Kids | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

The truly frightening thing is that it's not just fanatics taking part in the anti-Muslim pogrom. Murder has gone middle class: businessmen are killing businessmen, farmers are fighting farmers, mothers are urging mobs to attack neighbors' children. Across the country, in the cities and out in the villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fire This Time | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

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