Word: subcontinental
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Indeed, it is as difficult to imagine an India without Gandhi as it once was to picture, say, an Egypt without Sadat. Increasingly, the figure of a sari-wrapped woman with sharp features and a dramatic streak of gray hair has became symbolic for the whole subcontinent. But the fact...
There is much to enjoy. New and unusual works? In addition to La Rondine, the company has revived Léo Delibes' fragile song of the subcontinent, Lakmé, and mounted an operatic staging of Stephen Sondheim's Grand Guignol Broadway masterpiece, Sweeney Todd; next month it presents...
On no issue do the two leaders disagree more strenuously than on the future of Europe's colonial empires, particularly the independence of India. With the Japanese threatening the subcontinent's borders, Churchill refuses to make any commitment on India. Roosevelt warns him that Americans believe "almost universally...
The animosity that persists between India's 500 million Hindus and 80 million Muslims has been centuries in the making. Though generally suppressed during 200 years of British rule, it surfaced to divide the subcontinent in 1947. British India was divided into two sovereign states, India and Pakistan. A...
The moment guaranteed high political drama, and the setting did it full justice. On a remote strip of bush along the border between their two countries, with the Lebombo mountains as a backdrop and hippos snorting in the nearby Nkomati River, Prime Minister P.W. Botha of apartheid South Africa and...