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'A Dead Hand: A Novel' by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux's contribution to the revival of contemporary travel writing is so seminal that casual readers may be inclined to forget that most of his rather astonishingly prodigious output has been literary fiction.
"A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta" is...Tags: Genres, Bono, Graham Greene, Hinduism, Brad Pitt
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PASSINGS: Jyoti Basu, Joe Shannon
Jyoti Basu
Communist statesman of India
Jyoti Basu, 95, a veteran communist leader who in 1996 came close to becoming India's prime minister, died Sunday in Calcutta of multiple organ failure, a party spokesman said. Basu became chief minister of West...Tags: Corruption, Guatemala, Communist Party of China, India, Unions
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Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87; sarod player helped bring Indian music to U.S.
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home...Tags: CBS Corp., Television, Berkeley (Alameda, California), Bernardo Bertolucci, Dialysis
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Cuisines of two Indian cities
Special to The TimesON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as...Tags: Onions, Recipes, Government, Garlic, Metal and Mineral
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"A Blue Hand" by Deborah Baker
By Wendy Smith nyone familiar with "In Extremis," her Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of poet Laura Riding, knows Deborah Baker has little interest in conventional lives or conventional narrative. Her new book, "A Blue Hand," which mostly follows...Tags: Timothy Leary, India, Allen Ginsberg, Columbia University, Philosophy
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'Born Into Brothels'
Times Staff Writer"Born Into Brothels" shatters expectations and confounds preconceptions. A documentary that changed the lives both of subjects and filmmakers, it will reorder the worldview of whoever sees it. Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not...Tags: Documentary (genre), Photography, India, Children, Cinema Industry
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