calcutta was very hot, said amy. i wondered how our conversation about asian american literature veered to calcutta? calcutta was very hot but i got my first doll there. we spent some time in calcutta when we fled to the united states. the doll didn't look like me blond hair and blue ice bought from calcutta. she comforted me when i remember the sounds of the japanese bombs that forced us to leave our home. did you have a dog? an indian doll to comfort you when you were a child? i told amy about my doll named champy and my oldest paternal uncle who resembled chinese ancestors. my uncle was an astounding musician played the violin and k helo. i would pick up shanty's head and place her ears on the door because her ears were smaller than my ears. i wanted her to listen carefully to the wonderful sound. i may have know in the way children know but my uncle's music would disappear from my life far too soon. he died when he was 40 years old. i tried to tell amy how my grand mother asked everyone why no one could bring her

but the fark are the only ones to regain strength thanks to gold the region of calcutta is the most violent of gold bearing zone of colombia here it's the criminal gangs that want their share of the spoils they are known as the black creams for short. these groups are the heirs of the paramilitary organizations the lay down their arms in the early to thousands in order to retain control over the drug trafficking some of their leaders set up new groups the back rooms were responsible for over eight thousand murders in two thousand and ten. in cook asia it's from this army base that the raids against the back chremes are launched. on this wanted poster their main leaders. for the back creams gold represent certain advantages over cocaine as this military intelligence officer explains to us. that it's easier to market. a lot of cocaine can be seized at any time. as it leaves the production of the country or when it arrives at its destination but this isn't the case for the go. to. be sent to him it is a small scale mine operator in the coke zero zero region like him hundreds of small operators

no one where i witnessed anything like it not in calcutta.he voiceless children silenced by hunger the bodies burned at night leaving i don't trace. descending the drum hills i turned off the main road following signs and i language lost before i was born. this was land observe the land was renamed and hushed. what was left for me, generations gone. a purfume of smoke freshened my nostrils. pastures reached to the head of the bay. thick roads where locals greeted with slowly raised hands or a nod of a cap to my car the postcard my eye framed in it's longing. moony's pub where i stopped for a pint and slipped my quest. so, you are a to bein accomodating my english. they're all about here. she showed the photograph with dark hair and features unlike my own but a resemblance of an uncle. what was the ring happened on my chance or grace. why not trace through lost norman crests or track dna to tribes 6,000 years gone from the banks. or further back through each human cell to african eve her grunts are tuning savannahs. i felt the gift shared from

pope francis may do well to take inspiration from mother teresa of calcutta. her work in the slums left a legacy of selfless devotion, carried out by her colleagues at the missionaries of charity to this day. parishioners feel the work done by their community is often forgotten or ignored. >> they want to do service. they want to do service for the nation. they want to do service for the society, so that's the challenge that we are facing today. people don't understand what we are doing. >> india has up to 17 million practicing catholics, the second largest community in asia after the philippines. five indian cardinals were included in the conclave that chose pope francis. those advising the government in new delhi believe the pope needs to appreciate the specific issues minorities face in india. >> we want a pope who will guarantee zero tolerance on issues of gender violence, on issues of exploitation of children. but we also need a pope who will rely on print, who will rekindle the enthusiasm that people need to have, who will give us the reason to believe t

as you know, i was a sister with the missionary of the charity, the sisters of mother teresa of calcuttahn paul is said to have proposed to mother teresa that she become a cardinal. it would require a slight shift in church law, but no church -- no shift in dogma, no church shift in church doctrine. i think moving to appoint a woman cardinal, several women cardinals, would be a step in the right direction that this new pope could make. >> i know, brian, you don't agree with that. but the -- francis has said he's going to be a reformer. and some people say that just means reforming the vatican, which is obviously significant, and i don't mean to imply that it isn't. but when you hear the word "reform" as someone who is very conservative, what do you want it to mean? >> i think more than anything else, it means a reform of our hearts. and he's a man who i believe truly lives the gospel. he takes a bus to work. he lives in a simple apartment. and i think he is someone who really incarnates the full gospel of jesus. and i think as he does that, he'll be able to touch people's hearts. and tha