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...have a tattoo on your hand. What is it, and why did you get it? -Charles Adkins, Aventura, Fla.The short answer is, I got drunk. I think I write about it in the book. But yes, I got drunk on an Indian reservation in Minnesota. It's a South American Indian sign...
...that is starting to seem distinctly 20th century. Her writing is completely free of humor or cleverness. It's almost totally devoid of narrative suspense. In the title story of her new collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH (Knopf; 333 pages), a widowed man comes to visit his daughter; their family is Indian, but she married an American. Will the father move in with them? Will he tell his daughter that he has a new lover? Lahiri (who won a Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies) gives us nearly 60 pages of precisely narrated time and delicate emotional tension before the story finally gathers...
...claim to fame was its recent introduction of the $2,500 Nano, a basic box on wheels sold only in India. Will luxury car buyers be put off by Jags (the price of Jaguar's latest sports car is more than $64,000) and Land Rovers made by an Indian company that also sells the world's cheapest car? "Not if it's sensitively handled," Wormald says. That means for the foreseeable future, both brands will likely continue to be produced in the U.K., to keep their British-made pedigree intact. Furthermore, the companies said there would...
...want to be a maid or a babysitter," says an 8-year-old over a soggy school lunch in east London. Her school's neighborhood includes large Turkish, Asian and West Indian communities, where there is little tradition of higher education, especially for girls. Many parents speak English as a second language. Although the school's academic record has improved, most of its students have little chance of going on to university. The picture is similar in working-class white communities, where many children follow the family tradition of leaving school at 16 to take up an unskilled...
...November 2003, local officials hailed New Delhi's victory in the race to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an opportunity to modernize its infrastructure and showcase the Indian capital as a world-class city. But New Delhi's preparations for the games - which involve Britain and most of its former colonies - have been so tardy and poorly executed that diplomats here joke that workers will still be painting the lanes on the athletic track when the runners take their marks...