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...agreement honored by its media ensures that exposing the love lives of the country's leaders remains taboo. So when the purported sexual peccadilloes of the nation's first?and most important?Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, inspire a new novel, you'd expect Indians to be astonished and appalled. Unless, of course, its author is Khushwant Singh. One of India's oldest and most respected writers, Singh also ranks among its smuttiest, and his compatriots are long used to being astonished and appalled by what he produces. In fact, many look forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shock of the Old | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...PLEASE DO NOT RING THE BELL UNLESS YOU ARE EXPECTED, reads the sign outside Singh's apartment in New Delhi?a surprisingly inhospitable welcome, given the author's reputation as a bon vivant ready to down glasses of whisky or trade bawdy jokes with visitors. Singh, 88, is one of India's most prolific writers. In addition to his previous four novels well known either for their wrenching portrayals of moral conflict or for their brazen, over-the-top eroticism, he has written scholarly works on the history of India's Sikhs, numerous short stories and newspaper columns, translated Urdu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shock of the Old | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...Everything about Harvard is about merit,” he quipped. “Unless your father went here. Or you gave [Harvard] a building...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Area Dems Unite To Support Kerry | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...launched Threatened Plants of Madagascar Project - has singled out orchids, palms and succulents for special conservation efforts. Rare orchids - Madagascar boasts over 1,000 species - are now being grown at Kew with the aim of repatriating them to the PBZT as soon as the new facilities there are ready. "Unless you safeguard Madagascar's flora, there's not much of a future for the fauna," says Adam Britt, the Threatened Plants Project coordinator who worked for five years with the Madagascar Fauna Group, helping reintroduce lemurs into the Betampona reserve. Although only four of the 13 lemurs released into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preserving Paradise | 4/18/2004 | See Source »

...start to build a budget around it,” Dingman continued, “say they give you $40,000 one year and then they say we’re not going to do that unless you put our logo at centerfield. It really blurs the distinction between amateurism and professional sports. All you need to do is go to the FleetCenter and you’re just completely overwhelmed...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, | Title: Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Who Cares? | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

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