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Chan deftly switches between the pulsing musical scenes, the growing tension among the cast in Shanghai and lengthy flashbacks to Sun and Lin's love affair in Beijing. The songs have a sense of the subcontinent, courtesy of top Indian choreographer Farah Khan, who taught the Chinese cast how to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absolute Love | 12/11/2005 | See Source »

DIED. AMRITA PRITAM, 86, novelist and poet who published her first story collection at age 16 and went on to write more than 60 works exploring the suffering of South Asian women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

The high point of Abdul Qumayon?s life took place six weeks ago. As relations appeared to improve between India and Pakistan, a bus service opened between the halves of Kashmir divided between the two warring nations. An aunt and uncle whom Qumayon had never met, separated from him like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kashmir Earthquake: A Father?s Grief | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

Welcome to the next marketing frontier. For years, Western companies have understood the potential of 1 billion consumers in India, but now they are slowly starting to realize the purchasing power of people in the U.S. who trace their roots to the subcontinent--a group known as desis. MTV India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Desi Dollars | 7/6/2005 | See Source »

Bihar is one of the sorriest places on earth. The eastern Indian state is the poorest and most illiterate in the subcontinent. Extortion and gang wars are rife, thousands of people die in floods every few years, and NASA recently discovered a cloud of smog over Bihar five times as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shelf Life | 6/13/2005 | See Source »

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