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Arts & Culture
Heritage
Heritage hall
The UNESCOs Asia-Pacific Heritage unit gave an Award of Distinction for the restoration of the convocation hall at the University of Mumbai.
LYLA BAVADAM
Music
Striking a chord
Professor Bertram Da Silva is back on stage after two decades and his music has taken Kolkata by storm again.
SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY
Art
Of divine forms
During the rule of the Kushanas, there was a new focus in art: the depiction of personalities.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL
Cinema
Jinxed legacy
Ritwik Ghataks films, among the best in cinema history, need a saviour to reclaim them so as to preserve their enduring value.
PARTHA CHATTERJEE
Cinema
Master strokes
Chak De India is the story of the new Indian woman not glamorous, not long-suffering, not vigilante, just fighting for her dreams.
UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA
Art
Harmony set in stone
The reliefs of the Sanchi stupa form the most important visual record of life and architecture in the Sunga period.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL
Art
Birth of classic form
Stupas, both of the Buddhist and Jaina traditions, are amongst the earliest monuments to survive.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL
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Eternal India
Joyous surrender to the natural order, rather than assertion and control over the forces around us, marks the vision of Indian art.
TEXT & PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENOY K. BEHL
Freedom at stake
The Mumbai Police stops the screening of Sanjay Kaks film on Kashmir on the pretext that it could be provocative or inflammatory.
DIONNE BUNSHA in Mumbai
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
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
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
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