Word: suri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...We’re trying to bring in authors relevant to politics but not just political journalists,” organizer Manik V. Suri ’05 said...
...tidy my room before my parents came, but it turned out that it wasn’t good enough,” Manik V. Suri ’05 said. “My mom came into my room, took one look and walked straight out; she spent the next hour vacuuming and cleaning the whole place...
Debra and Ash Suri, a Manhattan couple in their early 30s, are expecting their first child at the end of this month. After reading several childbirth books and attending a Lamaze class, Debra decided she wanted to have a doula present at her baby's birth. She interviewed several women and chose Guralnick. "I really wanted to go with a doula, because Barbara has so much knowledge and experience, and I find it very comforting to have somebody there with us from the beginning to the end, to be able to answer our questions," says Debra...
...clever structure allows The Death of Vishnu (Norton; 295 pages; $24.95) to display a manageable cross-section of contemporary urban Indian life, including class and religious frictions. But Manil Suri, who grew up in Bombay and now teaches mathematics at the University of Maryland, has more to offer here than gentle social comedy. During the course of the novel, Vishnu's soul disentangles itself from his earthly remains and begins ascending the apartment house stairs. As this spirit looks back on the life just ending, on the mother who named him after a Hindu god, on the prostitute whom...
...Vishnu of Suri's lyrical novel is a drunk who lies dying on the steps of a Bombay apartment house while the neighbors squabble over who will pay for an ambulance. If anyone is familiar with cold calculation, it is Suri. "I've worked very hard at math," he says. "I can't see myself giving...