Word: vikram
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Unlike fellow former British colonies India and Pakistan, Malaysia has yet to produce a Vikram Seth or an Arundhati Roy. There has been no writer of international stature, or even a literary canon?in Bahasa or English?that one could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children...
Finally, the results were in, and passing scores were announced. Less than 25 percent of test-takers made the cut. A number of Harvard students passed, including Rodriguez, Trevor S. Cox ’02, Scott A. Golder ’03 and Vikram...
...Vikram Vaz ’03 said he thought the decision was an unwarranted response to the tragedy...
...note she had been carrying as a deposit for a school picnic. While her relatives make funeral arrangements, Vajpayee hosts Musharraf at a glittering banquet lunch in New Delhi surrounded by 165 of India's best and brightest, including Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan, cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar and novelist Vikram Seth...
...According to the legend of Phoolan Devi in the villages of northern India, her lover and Dacoit mentor Vikram Mallah had taught her, "If you are going to kill, kill twenty, not just one. For if you kill twenty, your fame will spread; if you kill only one, they will hang you as a murderess." The Bandit Queen?s story certainly bore out that maxim. But the maxim has a corollary: The more people you kill; the wider the clamor for revenge...