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...disfigured model whose act includes setting himself on fire and pulling chairs out from his nether region. Still, the majority of the prank calls are like “Pet Cobra,” a mixture of offensive stereotyping (in this case a man with an over-the-top Indian accent who’s bitten by his cobra while charming it with a flute) and an overall difficulty and aggression...
...always, come from somewhere else. Eric, a mousy innocent abroad, has followed his grad-school girlfriend across the border and there runs into a fellow refugee, Dona Vera, who presides over a salon of sorts called the Hacienda de la Soledad, concealing her European past behind flamboyant displays of Indian folklore. In the third panel of the narrative's triptych, we travel back to 1910, when the British came to the area to exploit its mines and miners. That one of them, caught up in the revolution, was Eric's grandfather bears out the traditionalist's truth that time moves...
...seen or said. She gives us her pilgrims from the inside out, illuminating their hopes but wise to their illusions. And as Eric, a budding scholar of immigration, learns about more final passages, there is a musk of Lawrencian magic hovering around the social comedy. The terrain of Anglo-Indian confusion that Desai helped discover is now looking close to overcrowded. In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map. --By Pico Iyer
...relief. During Bush's last term, the outsourcing industry in Asia grew at an astonishing rate. Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest exporter of software services, saw its revenues surge 44% between July and September this year, compared with the same period last year; revenues at Infosys, another major Indian tech firm, grew 51%. Many U.S. companies aren't just sending call-center jobs and low-end software programming abroad; they're using India's enormous pool of highly qualified and cheap labor to cut their research-and-development budgets. Google, for instance, opened an R.-and-D. center...
...Asian outsourcing firms hope Bush will now give them a further boost by increasing the annual quota of American H-1B visas. Indian tech companies rely on these visas?which allow skilled foreigners to migrate to the U.S. for three years?to send teams of software engineers to clients' American offices for on-site training. But current U.S. law restricts the number of H-1B visas to only 65,000 a year?woefully inadequate to meet the Indian tech companies' needs. Without more visas, India's outsourcers will have to hire Americans to do their on-site work?which would...