Word: subcontinental
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Sustained by media generated sound bytes and oversimplifications, the American intellect is starved of any real knowledge of the Indian subcontinent. Pigeonholed into a single-issue agenda, Americans are left with a portrait of the country that is both inaccurate and ill-informed. To most Americans, India is a nation...
When Sushmita Sen, the first Indian to be chosen Miss Universe, made her triumphant return to the subcontinent after the 1994 pageant, there were victory processions, gala parties and countless interviews. For fans like Yukta Mookhey, a teenager growing up in a middle-class suburb of Bombay, Sushmita was living...
Yet at the same time, people from the subcontinent have tended to aim more than other first-generation arrivals for mainstream jobs, either in the professions or in corporations. Some of that is a hangover from British colonial experience, where a job in the civil service was the ultimate badge...
That book's modernist style was not everyone's cup of Darjeeling. Like Ulysses or the Upanishad, Satanic Verses remains more read about than read. The new wavelet of young writers with ties to the subcontinent should be more welcoming to an American public, which includes an increasing number of...
Just call me Bill.... President Clinton believes in bringing a personal touch to foreign policy, and that may have been one of the most important considerations in his decision, announced Tuesday, to visit Pakistan in the course of his trip to the Indian subcontinent beginning March 18. Last year's...