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Sketches of life

Three books that make interesting reading for the scholar and the layperson.

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Bhimsen Joshi at a performance. He was a true star whose popularity cut across a wide variety of listeners.-COURTESY: FAMILY ALBUM OF GODAVARI BAI

Musical genius

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi (1922-2011) symbolised an era in Hindustani classical music.

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VW IN MIRROR, Munich (1970).-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Studies in blue

Two exhibitions held recently in India showcased some of the cyanotypes of the American photographer Robert A. Schaefer.

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VW IN MIRROR, Munich (1970).-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Studies in blue

Two exhibitions held recently in India showcased some of the cyanotypes of the American photographer Robert A. Schaefer.

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Of memories and realities

Fifty years after its making, Ritwik Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tara retains its capacity to move viewers from different backgrounds.

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Self-portrait: Man of Steel Massage of Love.-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Collage of life

Pakistani artist Iqbal Geoffrey is much more than a witty collage-maker: his world is, artistically and socially, a cosmopolitan one.

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Poignant notes

The life of Gauhar Jaan (1873-1930) is a poignant chapter in the annals of Hindustani classical music of the 20th century. She was the first recording

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Family feud

FATIMA Bhutto is a woman dutiful to history. Her grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto came from the largest land-owning family in Sindh. He was educated at

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Blind Minotaur guided through the night by a girl, 1934.-

Inspired etching

PABLO RUIZ PICASSO (1881-1973) was the most charismatic artist in 20th century Western art. Both his art and his life had colour and grandeur. Controv

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HIMALAYAS, 1937, STATE Museum of Oriental Arts, Moscow.-PICTURES: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Roerich legend

THE life of Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) is the stuff of legend. The son of a highly educated lawyer in tsarist Russia, Roerich pursued his legal stud

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In most assessments, Rabia Zuberi`s contribution as a teacher and organiser tends to overshadow her achievements as a sculptor and painter.-PHOTOGRAPHS: BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Gentle rainbow

RABIA ZUBERI is a pioneering figure in the world of the plastic arts in Pakistan. She has done more to have art accepted as a worthy activity of self-

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Unsung heroes

SONGS have always been the mainstay of Hindi cinema or what is popularly known as Bollywood. Even today, when technology and its attendant vice, cacop

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