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DIED. MORARJI DESAI, 99, ascetic former Prime Minister of India who led the country's first non-Congress Party government from 1977 to 1979; in Bombay. After Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a state of emergency in 1975 and imprisoned political opponents-including Desai, for 21 months-voters put his coalition in power. He credited his long life to celibacy (begun at age 32 after his fifth child was born) and a spartan diet of fruit, milk, juice and, from time to time, his own urine...
...roots were labeled with the names of famous authors such as E.M. Foster, Anita Desai, and Henry James, on whose works many of his movies have been based...
...part of the world here who will be reading about it. And that doesn't mean it precludes a lot of other communities who enjoy that writing too. And I think slowly, India, too is gaining favor and popularity. It started perhaps with Rushdie and before Rushdie with Anita Desai before that with Narayan and Naipaul, Raja Rao, so there has been an interest because these have been great, great writers. So this is not something new. Vikram Seth has come out with a very bubbly, very effervescent novel and it's wonderful that people from the subcontinent are being...
...epidemic hit the team in mid-season, knocking Fraiberg out of the Howe Cup. Injuries slowed training schedules. Desai, the team's top player, developed tendonitis in her wrist...
...post-season national individual tournament, five out of the top 10 players hailed from Harvard--including the winner, junior Vanya Desai...