Love prevails as Hindu hardliners protest Valentines Day in India
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The protests by groups like Shiv Sena, who say they are defending traditional Indian values from Western-style promiscuity, have become an annual media event.
But they appear to be fighting a losing battle, particularly in India’s cities, where a booming economy has brought with it all the trappings of Western culture, including McDonald’s, MTV [...]
Love prevails as Hindu hardliners protest Valentines Day in India
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The protests by groups like Shiv Sena, who say they are defending traditional Indian values from Western-style promiscuity, have become an annual media event.
But they appear to be fighting a losing battle, particularly in India’s cities, where a booming economy has brought with it all the trappings of Western culture, including McDonald’s, MTV [...]
Love prevails as Hindu hardliners protest Valentines Day in India
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The protests by groups like Shiv Sena, who say they are defending traditional Indian values from Western-style promiscuity, have become an annual media event.
But they appear to be fighting a losing battle, particularly in India’s cities, where a booming economy has brought with it all the trappings of Western culture, including McDonald’s, MTV [...]
The Uturns of happiness
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During the winter doldrums, you really start to ponder on meaning of life, happiness.
Happiness I find, is like finding moments of loveliness, like an albino squirrel frolicking in your backyard, or a kitchen filled with cinnamony-goodness. Better yet, a good busy day at work and an even better evening out with friends. Stuff like [...]
Julie White Returns to the Stage
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(01-28) 12:56 PST NEW YORK, (AP) —
What do you do for an encore after winning a 2007 Tony for best actress?
If you are Julie White, the deserving winner for last season’s “The Little Dog Laughed,” you go off-Broadway to star in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of “From Up Here,” [...]
Erica and Darryel Varize Together against adversity
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In 1990 Darryel, now 31, and Erica, now 32, were freshmen at Red Bluff High School. Transplants from the Bay Area, they found few kids they could relate to in the mostly white Sacramento Valley. “There were about five of us,” says Erica, whose father was Hawaiian and Japanese American and mother is African American. [...]
Emily Mortimer Makes OffBroadway Debut
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(01-23) 09:26 PST New York (AP) —
Emily Mortimer is among the trio of stars who will appear in “Parlour Song,” British playwright Jez Butterworth’s new play which will have its world premiere at what has become his American home, the Atlantic Theater Company.
The play, which also features Chris Bauer and Jonathan Cake, [...]
Emily Mortimer Makes OffBroadway Debut
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(01-23) 09:26 PST New York (AP) —
Emily Mortimer is among the trio of stars who will appear in “Parlour Song,” British playwright Jez Butterworth’s new play which will have its world premiere at what has become his American home, the Atlantic Theater Company.
The play, which also features Chris Bauer and Jonathan Cake, [...]
Why Nicolas Sarkozy is no Romeo
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If this blousy old pair had said that they were going on a trip down the Nile like that other embarrassing case of late flowering lust, Antony and Cleopatra, the world would surely have felt rather touched. But a “Romeo and Juliet honeymoon”? Are the star-crossed lovers Sarkozy and Bruni so “obsessed” by Romeo and [...]
Pick of the paperbacks
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Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee concludes this magnificent biography with a visit to Edith Wharton’s grave in Versailles, where she is moved to clear away the overgrown foliage obscuring the tombstone. Her compelling, sympathetic retelling of Wharton’s life and career is a more fitting monument - one that affirms the writer’s reputation as America’s [...]
