Word: subcontinentals
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Indian researchers have long been afraid that AIDS, which destroys the body's natural defenses against disease, would spread rapidly once it reached the subcontinent. Known as HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, the AIDS microbe is transmitted by sexual intercourse, blood transfusions and contaminated needles, though not, say researchers, by...
Outside Europe, India has made the most dramatic shift of any non-Communist nation. Since the country's independence in 1947, socialism has been an accepted part of India's political and economic system. Now the subcontinent has begun to embrace free enterprise too. The change is largely the work...
Unlike most photographers, she was as famous as her pictures. The images she captured are memorable enough on their own: a line of flood victims in Kentucky stretched in front of a billboard braying prosperity; the German bombardment of the Kremlin by night during World War II; Mohandas Gandhi reading...
In her introduction to this selection of 15 stories from four earlier books, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala notes the problem that faces all foreigners who settle on the subcontinent: "To live in India and be at peace, one must to a very considerable extent become Indian and adopt Indian attitudes, habits...
Britain's love affair with the Indian subcontinent, in books, films and mini- series, is a quaint disease, a melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste...