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Literature

Knight in need of armour

The latest row over Salman Rushdie makes even less sense than the one before, set off by `The Satanic Verses' and the fatwa.
HASAN SUROOR
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Literature

Rushdie's children

Salman Rushdie has come down in popular imagination as a novelist, first and last, but he should be better known for his essays.
RAVI VYAS
Art

Ajanta of the South

Of all arts the best is chitra. It gives the fruit of dharma, artha, kama and moksha. Wherever it is established in a house (or otherwise), it is harb
Art

Photographic feat

The inaccessible Chola murals at the Big Temple in Thanjavur have been captured in almost life-size photographs and displayed at the temple.
T.S. SUBRAMANIAN
Cinema

Dirty reality

`Faecal Attraction' takes an unflinching view of urban sewage - what it is doing to our rivers and what it might soon do to our cities.
ANNIE ZAIDI
Heritage

House of Chandor

How a family's devotion helps conserve one of Goa's grandest colonial mansions, the Braganza house in Chandor.
TEXT AND PICTURES: SARAH HIDDLESTON
Heritage

Historic blend

The palaces in Datia and Orchha prove that the assimilation of Islamic and Hindu styles is not an invention of the British.
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS A. SRIVATHSAN

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(From top, left) Medha Patkar, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Mallika Sarabhai, M.F. Husain, Aamir Khan, Dia Mirza.-

The hit list

MEDHA PATKAR, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader, is attacked every time she enters Gujarat. The last time this happened was at a peace meeting in Sa

Missing in Gujarat

"Parzania", a movie based on events relating to the communal pogrom, has been released throughout the country but not in Gujarat.
DIONNE BUNSHA
Chaulakhi Gateway, leading out of Jilau Khana, Qaisarbagh, albumen print, mid-1870s. The figures in the foreground have been carefully positioned by the photographer to give the viewer an idea of scale.-PHOTOGRAPHS: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Splendour and decline

A recent photo exhibition of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts presents the architectural wealth of Lucknow.
AMAN SETHI

`We had three heads'

Interview with Uzbek director Ovlyakuli Khojakuli.
GOWRI RAMNARAYAN
THE GRAND STRUCTURE has gargoyles and grotesques leaning out from towers and turrets in typical Gothic style.-

Victorian grandeur

A new book immortalises Victoria Terminus, one of Mumbai's most beloved public buildings.
LYLA BAVADAM
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