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APRIL 2002
Music
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Zakir
Hussain - Compelling Beats
Starting his professional journey from the age of eight, Zakir Hussain
has bridged the Hindustani and Carnatic traditions by performing with North
and South Indian masters and presenting percussion concerts both as a
soloist and with other drummers.
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Art
| Jatin
Das - 4 decades of passion
Jatin Das is at his artistic best
depicting man-woman relationships. His human forms have a vibrant energy and
an abundance of emotions. "
Human predicament is my basic concern. I draw, paint and etch the human
body, without any narrative, devoid of placement of time. |
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Travel
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A
Journey through Bhutan
- excerpted from
Akhil Bakshi's forthcoming book 'Between Heaven & Hell'
Soon after the nuclear
tests conducted by India and Pakistan, Akhil Bakshi led the
18,000 km motoring expedition – Hands Across The Borders –
to promote peace and development in South Asia. The journey,
with activists from the region, was envisaged as a massive mass
contact program through the interiors of Sri Lanka, India,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan. "Between Heaven and
Hell" is an account of that momentous journey.
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Heritage
Performing Arts
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Fakir
of Benares' -1922 French Opera revived in Delhi
In 1922, when India was still a British colony with some
French territorial turf, playwright Leo Manuel, bewitched by the charms of
the holy city of Benares went back to France and created a musical
masterpiece set in Benares. It was an instant hit and is still remembered as
one of the most successful operas of the country.
Now, eighty years later, the opera is revived and
resurrected by Priya Wacziarg, daughter of the noted French author,
historian and restorer, Francis Wacziarg who has made India his home.
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Business & Economy
Textiles
of Pakistan
In
1947, Pakistan inherited one textile mill, the Lyallpur Cotton
Mill in Lyallpur, now called Faisalabad. Today there are 450
Spinning mills and 35 composite textile mills. Textile goods
form 60 % of the total exports of Pakistan. |
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