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Moral anaesthesia
Cost cutting at his clinics has cost wealthy Nevada-based physician Dipak Desai his reputation.
More than 30 years ago, a young Indian doctor called Dipak Desai landed in New York looking for fame and fortune. Since then he has found fortune. On September 27, 2009, he will have national, if not international, fame, though not the way he wanted it.
Indian stud appeal
Soon Bollywood's leading men will no longer be the only Indian studs to receive critical acclaim.
In "The Iliad", Homer wrote: "There is none who could sprint to make it up, nor close you, nor pass you, not if the man behind you were driving the great Arion, the swift horse of Adrestos, whose birth is from the immortals."
Arion's pedigree seemed impeccable as he was fathered by Poseidon, or Neptune, the King of the Sea, who was credited with having created the horse and, subsequently, horse racing. His mother was Demeter, the goddess of fertility.
Seducing the Indians
Mills & Boon's passage to India is not simply a holiday romance.
"I'll be your mistress – for a million dollars."
For years, model Briana Davenport fought temptation – in the form of a six-foot, blue-eyed seducer. Jarrod Hammond was her employer's sworn enemy and as such off-limits to her… and her bed.
India's poor little rich prince
The waxing and waning of the Nizam of Hyderabad reflects the waves of change that have swept the sub-continent since India's independence.
It starts off with the whiff of an Indian fable, turns into a cautionary tale on the crosswinds of post-colonialism, then veers into a modern soap opera involving politics, eccentric royals, squabbling relatives, international lawyers and the world of high finance.
Past wives of Asia
Jiang Qing – Murderess Most Foul?
Jiang Qing, who ruled China when her husband Mao Zedong was in his dotage, does not exist officially. The current crop of Chinese leaders blames her for helping Mao launch the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), which led to the deaths of untold millions.The freeloading mason
After his retirement, when he settled down in Calicut, South India, a friend asked him what he would do to pass the time. Narayan Gopalakrishnan thought, "Wouldn't time pass if he didn't do anything?"
Oh yes! Time had passed pretty fast, and in huge chunks. Joining the elite service of the Indian Railways in 1957, I slogged in the districts for nearly 15 years. Then I was posted to Calcutta. We had a nice house on the banks of the Hoogli, the biggest distributary of the Ganges.
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