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...perhaps not surprising that Sujit Saraf chose Chandni Chowk as the main setting for his ambitious 750-page novel of politics, commerce and manners in modern India. The Peacock Throne does for Delhi and democracy what Vikram Chandra's recent 900-page Sacred Games does for Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and organized crime. Or what 19th century European novelists did when economic and intellectual winds howled: produce teeming, sprawling, barn-burning novels that try to describe everything in sight. The surprise is that Saraf is not, strictly speaking, a novelist. He works full-time as a space scientist...
...Fair enough, but, with its three halls seating 4,000 people, including some 1,700 in the main auditorium, the Palau is the crown jewel. Calatrava himself described the 40,000-sq-m building as the culmination of 14 years' work. "This project is the most intense, the one I've devoted most time to," he said. "It represents a correlation between spectator, musician and artist." With its ample rehearsal and performance spaces, as well as its fine acoustics (Calatrava brought in his own team to ensure their quality), the Palau holds obvious appeal for any musical performer...
Amnesty International called the SLA “Israel’s proxy militia” in a 2000 report, and said that the “Khiam Detention Centre is [its] main detention and interrogation centre in Israeli-occupied Lebanon...
Unfortunately, the needed repairs are not the ones the new Democratic majority on Capitol Hill has been proposing. For them, the main problem is a lack of federal dollars...
Hoping to end the fratricidal killing on the streets of Gaza, Saudi Arabia has invited leaders of the two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, to Islam's holiest city for talks aimed at creating a unity government. Such a government would not only end the chaotic fighting, but would also be aimed at ending the Western economic siege of the Palestinian territories. But as if the hostility on the streets of Gaza was not enough to cloud the prospects for success of Tuesday's talks in Mecca, outside pressures on the summit have begun to mount...