The elderly gentleman's name is Warren Schmidt. I don't think anyone I know, knows him in person. He is a fictional character and the movie about him is called 'About Schmidt'. In this 2002 movie, Jack Nicholson played the lead.
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The crowd remains silent. The maulana sitting on a throne-like chair placed on the stage accompanied by the local elites sitting behind him. All listening to the stories as the preacher brings new meaning and dimensions of the stories from the life of the Prophet and his men.
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Climate change means that millions of people now face the risk of catastrophic flooding, but few more so than the char-dwellers of Bangladesh, clinging to tiny impermanent islands of sand in the Jamuna river. Tahmima Anam, whose debut novel charted the nation's birth, returns to see what the future might hold for her homeland.
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