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Arts & Culture
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
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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Victorian grandeur
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