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January 2009
Killing spree over 'trivial' disputes hits India's capital The Observer, January 18, 2009 Psychologists say villagers attracted by Delhi's boom often react violently to an alien way of life
“THE TIGERS are in there,” the man at the tiller says, pointing into the mangroves that overhang the deck of the boat as it noses along the edge of the inlet. The dappled sunlight plays on pale green and yellow leaves, reflecting off the water, casting shadows among the branches, breaking up the shape of anything moving among the trees. Somewhere out of sight, 500lb of heavily muscled tiger is picking its way through the forest, looking for dinner. “In there,” the boatman says again, pointing urgently, but fear makes every shadow look like a stripe.
As Danny Boyle strode up to the stage at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Hollywood to collect the fourth Golden Globe of the night for Slumdog Millionaire, Sagar Kamaliya had already been up and about for hours. Half a day and 8,710 miles away in Los Angeles’s twin city of Mumbai, the sun was already high over the tin and asbestos rooftops of the tightly packed mass of houses and workshops that make up Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum and the setting for the Oscar front-runner.
Rounding the last defender, Raja Chinnaswamy looks up towards the iron frame of the goal in the lee of the white-washed wall of the orphanage behind. He pulls back his right foot and lets fly, sending the ball hurtling past the goalkeeper and out through the gaping hole in the torn netting.
Sri Lankan forces pound Tigers in battle for control: The Observer, January 4, 2009 Government says it will end island's 25-year war this year and hopes to take rebel leader alive.
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