Word: subcontinentals
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The cause of the changes can be traced, at least in part, to plate tectonics, the movement of the great crustal plates that ride on the earth's semimolten mantle and provide its solid outer shell. Some 45 million to 50 million years ago, the plate that carries the Indian...
While many may envy Clarke's success at relocating himself off the subcontinent in an island paradise, few will care about his domestic difficulties, described in "Servant Problem--Oriental Style." Nor is the reader likely to admire Clarke's wit in suggesting that Appuhamy, his houseboy for eight years and...
What has all the Arab countries jittery, especially Saudi Arabia, is that during the next few months millions of Muslims will be making the pilgrimage to the holy shrine in Mecca. Cholera has already appeared near Medina on one of the routes followed by the faithful coming from as far...
In India last week, Coca-Cola was fast becoming more than the most popular soft drink in the country; it was turning into two four-letter words. Climaxing a four-year campaign against multinational companies in general and Coca-Cola in particular, the government in effect demanded that Coke turn...
New Delhi Correspondent Lawrence Malkin had another sort of assignment: to determine the mood of the Indian people as they prepared to vote in their national election on March 20. Traveling the subcontinent as a newcomer to the region, Malkin found "the cumulative effect of an aroused citizenry one of...