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To: RealMuLan who wrote (996)	10/13/2003 1:16:03 PM
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The Small Screen Television is luring Asians to the city—and shaping expectations of what they’ll find there By Sarah Schafer and Sudip Mazumdar NEWSWEEK Oct. 20 issue — Aalo Maity barely remembers life before her tiny Indian village got its first television set. She only remembers that after, life seemed unbearable. Every night she would gather with other villagers in a hut to watch soap operas that showed people in pressed clothes strolling while savoring ice cream from pretty cups. “In my hut we ate soggy rice and lentils and I wore darned saris,” Maity recalls. “I wanted a better life.” So she and her husband, Gaurang, leased out their land and found jobs in New Delhi—Aalo works as a maid, Gaurang drives an auto rickshaw. “From the time we got a television our lives changed, at least in our dreams,” says Maity. msnbc.com