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...through reading my books, so they'll tell me all sorts of things. I'm sort of getting used to it. One woman told me that she had once stopped in the middle of having sex and made her boyfriend get a condom because in my books, I always write about the importance of protection. And I've had more women than I can count tell me that they've left abusive relationships because my character Anita wouldn't take it. I take great pride in that...
...past four). The success of his first book, Five Point Someone, a campus novel following three best friends at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, took him by surprise. "I didn't have the baggage of other Indian authors," he says. "I just wanted to write a fun book...
...uncompromising modernity of the new writing is also uplifting. Speak to any of these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more self-consciously literary sagas set in some supposedly more romantic past. Indian pop fiction might be banished to second-class status by critics, says Bhagat, "but it's not that to the people who read it." For them, it tells the stories of their own lives, and looks ahead to India...
Unknown Africa I have bitten my tongue several times as your reporters, including Alex Perry and Vivienne Walt, glibly write about growing poverty in South Africa. This "conventional wisdom" is repeated in "Verbatim" [Oct. 20]. It simply isn't true. Measures of income generally show that poverty has fallen by as much as 20% over the past seven or eight years. One reason has been that employment rose considerably during the mid-2000s; another is that social-assistance programs now reach 12 million South Africans. It is true that inequality seems to have increased, but that is because...
...which school has the best campus legend featured on its Wikipedia page. My one and only source for term papers mentions Princeton’s “Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure, shadowy figure that would infest Fine Hall, home to the Mathematics Department, and write complex equations on blackboards.”Even if the phantom had turned out to be John Forbes Nash, inventor of the Nash equilibrium, I prefer complex math problems to mysteriously appear thanks to tough yet sensitive MIT janitors from Southie, thank you very much. Let?...