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Youth hostels
Punjab’s flop show
The youth hostel scheme
has been a non-starter in the state.
Chitleen
K. Sethi checks out why these hostels have failed to attract travellers
THERE is many a slip
between the cup and the lip. More clich`E9d than this is the fact that
in our country most of the well-intentioned government schemes go
off-track and misfire. Take the case of the
Centre’s ambitious plan of setting up of youth hostels in the
country. As many as 72 youth hostels were set up across the country to
serve as places where young persons and students on excursion, study
tour, camps etc could get good accommodation at affordable rates.
As they see it
Struck by their simple
and rustic lifestyle, a US photographer has enabled nomadic Van
Gujjars with cameras to capture images of their world in their own
way, reports S.M.A.
Kazmi
VAN
Gujjars, a nomadic
tribe from Shivalik hills, has caught the fancy of Benjamin Lenzner, a
young photographer from New York City. Two years ago, Benjamin on a
visit to Dehra Dun, sponsored by the American India Foundation Service
Corps, was quite fascinated by the simple and basic lifestyle of these
tribal people, who spend their entire lives in the lap of the nature.
Fluxus — fusion of
different art forms
First-ever
exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern
Art, New Delhi
TAKE a sheet of paper.
Shake it, rumple it and tear it. Place the act in the context of
creative art, installations, short texts and theatre. You get a
free-flowing genre of inter-disciplinary art called ‘Fluxus’ art.
An exhibition on the art started in New Delhi recently and would be on
till first week of June.
The legend lives on
Shoma
A. Chatterji on
director Mrinal Sen who has been chosen for this year’s lifetime
achievement award at Osian’s Cinefan
Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema
Veteran Bengali
filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who turned 85 this month, will be honoured with
the lifetime achievement award at Osian’s-Cinefan 10th Festival of
Asian and Arab Cinema, on July 10 in Delhi. A pioneer of the
alternative cinema movement, Sen made films like Bhuvan Shome, Ek
Din Achanak and Mrigaya. Mrinal Sen is not just a name. He
is a legend.
INTERVIEW
Bhansali’s
French connection
Subhash K. Jha
Filmmaker Sanjay Leela
Bhansali is perhaps the only director from Bollywood to be invited to
Paris’ prestigious Theatre du Chatelet to direct an opera. Bhansali
had four performances of the 1923 opera ballet Padmavati,
written by Albert Rousselan. The opera will be staged in Italy
from June 27 at the prestigious Italian Festival in Spoleto at the
Umbrian hills near Rome.
Stars waiting to shine
Payal Pandit and her
cousins Savitri and Baby are swimming champions in the under-19
category from Bihar’s Begusarai district. But poverty and Naxalite
politics have prevented their rise to stardom, writes Manisha
Prakash
ON a hot summer day,
Madhusudan Pandit (42), a homoeopathy practitioner in Saraunjha
village of Begusarai district in Bihar, blows his whistle as a command
to Payal, his daughter, to take another lap in the river Balan. Meet
Payal Pandit (12), a state swimming champion in the under-19 category.
The gorgeous dupatta
That colourful swathe of
cloth thrown around the shoulders can sometimes be the most important
element in a salwar-kameez or churidar-kurta ensemble, says Banalata
Bipani
HAVE you seen the way a
really attractive woman sometimes leaves or enters a room? With a
swish and a swirl of her beautiful dupatta? That colourful
swathe of cloth thrown around the shoulders can sometimes be the most
important element in a salwar-kameez or churidar-kurta ensemble.
Success from waste
Gagandeep Kaur
THE waste pickers of
Latur, Maharashtra, have not only managed to change their lives for
the better, but have also been instrumental in the town winning the
prestigious Sant Gadge Baba Maharaj Award. The award recognises good
sanitation practices in the state—with a huge prize money.
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