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Artist in
exile
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Exile and the artist are
something new for a country like ours known for its liberalism and
tolerance. Has M.F. Husain actually chosen to flee or is it a new
marketing technique by this artist who has always thrived on
controversy? Nirupama Dutt probes
this question as Husain fails to return home on promised dates |
Maqbool
Fida Husain, undoubtedly the most popular and prolific contemporary
Indian artist, laughs at the word ‘exile’. His is a full-throated
laughter of a man who has seen 90 plus one seasons of life and
creativity. The irony is that he says this while in exile of sorts,
away from his home country. Is it a willing suspension of disbelief
when the maverick painter, whose one canvas fetches a crore and more.
SINGING
HUSAINAS
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Global
design in local space
Architectural practice should
be a creative process that aims at adopting ideas drawn from the past
but rewritten to suit the changing environment, writes Deependra
Prashad
Time:
Saturday night,
circa 2007. Place: a technopolis called Gurgaon. Scenario: a family of
four comfortable in their luxury condo waiting for the pizza delivery
guy. The children want to eat out but that would mean negotiating
through the nightmarish slums outside.
Ruled
by compassion
Helpful officials can often
act as saviours. R.K. Chhibbar recounts
two such incidents
ON
June 26, 1951, after superannuation from the post of Government
Pleader and Public Prosecutor, Amritsar, my father Bakhshi Mulk Raj
Chhibbar shifted to Shimla in to start legal practice in the High
Court. We rented out a house, Aloka, behind Grindlays Bank on the
Mall, close to Scandal Point.
Drive
of destiny
Rooma Mehra
Somehow
or the other, every time we ventured to Chail, we were never able to
include Narkanda in our itinerary. Hence, it happened that we gazed
upon the beautiful greens of the Naldehra Golf course so many times;
visited the highest cricketing pitch in the world in Chail again and
again, but never got to Narkanda.
Computer
care, the eco way
Daksha
Hathi offers tips on maintaining computers and laptops in an
environmentally friendly way
HAS
your cat decided to sit on your computer, to drive you crazy? Never
mind, there are many ways to clean it up and care for it safely.
In the race to be
noticed
For the first time in
the history of the Oscars, two Hindi movies are vying for nominations
in the foreign language category to be announced on January 23. Vikramdeep
Johal looks at the prospects of Indian entry Rang De
Basanti and Canada’s Water
AN
Oscar! an Oscar! my kingdom for an Oscar!" Had Shakespeare’s
King Richard III been a film-maker, he would have demanded the coveted
statuette rather than a horse. Such is the aura and hype surrounding
the Academy Awards that even a nomination is regarded as a great
achievement.
Emotional high
Moving along four fronts
is ideal material for story telling and director Inarritu grabs it
with both hands, writes Ervell
E. Menezes
TAKE
four different incidents (read stories), diverse, disparate and
variously located and get these characters, after trudging the
wasteland, to overlap. Then try to determine their connectivity. Will
these little pieces of a jigsaw puzzle fall into place?
The
other face of Rahul Bose
Shoma A. Chatterji
Fresh
from the release of his latest film, Pyar ke Side Effects, when
Rahul Bose landed in Calcutta for an overnight stay, it was not in his
actor persona. He was invited by four organisations that had joined
hands to observe the fortnight to stop violence against women and
girls.
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