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The plagues in India are continuing to spread to the far reaches of the subcontinent, with new cases reported in the huge metropolises of New Delhi and Calcutta -- both hundreds of miles away from where the diseases started. The official tally of deaths is 54, but unofficial -- and probably more...
Only a few years ago, the tiger was considered a conservation success story. Centuries of legal tiger hunting and forest destruction had raised the specter of extinction, but in 1972 governments rallied to rescue the cats. Taking up the issue as a personal cause, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched...
"When I got to Harvard I was amazed that there were active organizations for East Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, but nothing for the 900 million [people] on the Indian subcontinent," Khurody said.
Q: Would you agree that there has been a burgeoning of interest in literature coming out of the subcontinent, especially with all of the hoopla that accompanied Vikram Seth's tome? Is there more of a market--
A: Yes, certainly. Let's put it this way, Latin America has been fashionable for a long time, and there's been very creative work coming out of there. Africa has also become fashionable, and there's a wide readership. These things have been dictated by the reading public. So...