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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

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