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The Board of Control for Cricket in India has decreed that the Indian Premier League tournament be played overseas because the authorities can't supply adequate security. The decision, which follows terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, and Lahore, Pakistan, has put Indian fans of the game in mourning.

Commentator Peter Sagal mourns the loss of science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer. He says Farmer provided him with an important commodity when he was growing up: imaginary people. You can spend your whole life talking and playing with and beating up imaginary people. And from all accounts, many do. But Sagal also wonders if, like him, when they grow up and have to say farewell to childish things, they'll have nothing real to let go of.

The Nano — the Indian-made car that looks like a jellybean and is billed as the cheapest car in the world — is being launched today by its manufacturer Tata Motors. The Nano was unveiled early last year to huge fanfare, and its release comes six months later than planned.

Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World, wants readers to reconsider what they think they know about countries like Saudi Arabia. It's widely known that most of the Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudis. Cole says some people abuse that fact to fuel suspicion of the Saudi government, or of the Saudi strain of Islam known as Wahhabism.

Biographer Frances Wilson discusses the intense connection between William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy — and the "vortex of poetry" in which they lived.

A new cookbook promises to take the ache out of baking. Nancy Baggett, the author of Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads, shares the secrets of no-knead baking from her kitchen in the Washington, D.C., area.

Navigating the world of veterinary medicine can be daunting, but one veterinarian believes she can help. Nancy Kay, a veterinarian with 20 years of experience, is the author of Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Longer Life.

Concern is growing over the fate of civilians trapped by war on the island of Sri Lanka. U.N. officials say there's evidence that nearly 3,000 of them have been killed in just two months. The civilians are confined to a strip of land where government forces are trying to inflict an all-out military defeat against the Tamil Tiger separatists.

Author Eric Kraft describes Rem Koolhaas' Delirious New York as a "sometimes outrageous retroactive manifesto" about architecture and city planning — in short, a book not to miss.

Anne Brown, who would have been 110 years old this month, was the first Black vocalist ever accepted at Juilliard.