The Tribune Spectrum

Sunday, March 24, 2002

ART & LITERATURE
'ART AND SOUL
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The ugly truth about Partition politics

V.N. Datta analyses how the Pakistan Resolution was passed on March 24, 1940, what were the circumstances that had led to its origin, and how it was formulated and modified in successive stages, and how it came to be finally formulated.

ON March 24, 1940 the All-India Muslim League passed a resolution (known better as the Pakistan Resolution) for the Partition of the country in Minto Park, Lahore, about a furlong from the Great Fort.

Portrait by Kuldip Dhiman

Role of architecture in conflict
Snehal Shah
A
RCHITECTURE has always been a mirror to the social structure of a society. With horrific communal violence, that has claimed hundreds of lives, breaking out in India’s western state of Gujarat at the beginning of March, it is important to examine the role of architecture in conflict.

Get the most out of your storage space
N. Mehrotra & M.K. Dhillon
I
N the home, as in business, good planning is essential for easy running. To run a home properly is a highly skilled art. A place or everything and everything in its place is the principle of law and order. Running a successful house involves the provision of adequate storage facilities in various parts of the house to serve the work areas.

Shrines that promote harmony
K.R.N. Swamy
T
RADITION avers that when Saint Kabir passed away, his Hindus and Muslim followers began to quarrel as to who should have the right to perform his last rites. As the quarrel over cremation versus burial began to ruffle tempers; it is said that one of the elders asked the parties to cover the saint’s body with a cloth and await the next dawn.

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A dashing man of action and an idealist
Vikramdeep Johal
A
T this year’s Oscar Awards ceremony, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will honour an artiste who has remained a staunch individualist all through his four decades in the movie industry. Like some of the characters played by him, he has stood up for his ideals without caring about the consequences.

Preparing to shoot his way to success in Olympics
Abhijit Chatterjee
H
E has represented India in the Asian Games as well as the last Commonwealth Games held at Kuala Lumpur. He finished a creditable joint 11th in the shooting competitions in the Sydney Olympics in 2000, for which he was given a wild card by the International Shooting Federation.

Flamingoes of Baropal Lake
Subhash Gogi
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AROPAL, a tiny quiet village in northern Rajasthan, attracts nature-lovers because of its large concentration of flamingoes in the nearby lake. This brackish water lake is among one of the largest wetlands of Rajasthan.

HALF NOTE
Good videos, not good music
Jawahar Wattal

TREAT this column like an insider's guide to what's in, what's out, what's on top, and what's definitely not in the music industry! The music industry, like much of the country, is also passing through a very difficult phase.

Week Specials

'ART AND SOULShringara: Passion and adornment
by B.N. Goswamy

 

TELEVISIONFrom the girl-next-door to a crusader
by Mukesh Khosla

LIFE TIES: Guilty of being talented
by Taru Bahl

KEEPING FIT: Ways to combat plague
by B.K. Sharma

GARDEN LIFE: Prune fruit trees to make them healthy
by Satish Narula

HERITAGE: Where echoes of history resound
Partha S. Banerjee

DREAM THEME: Dreaming of fields
by Vinaya Katoch Manhas

SUNDAY ACTIVITYCare of chinaware
by Chetna Banerjee

VIP TOON TALES: Pik Botha
by
Ranga

BRIDGE: Declarer came with Spade
by
Omar Sharif

FEEDBACK: Different epochs, different lessons

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