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Pran Neville
on the pioneering work
of French artist F. B. Solvyns who depicted the life in 18th
century India through his etchings
Artist’s representation of celebrations of “Charak Puja” festival
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Emergence
of the British as a dominant power in India encouraged British
professional artists to come to India towards the late 18th
century. They were
able to earn fame and fortune through landscape paintings of the
Indian panorama and by making portraits of the East India
Company’s ruling elite as well as Indian nawabs and
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Fort that held Nehru
Rajendra Rajan
visits Ahmednagar fort in Maharashtra, where Jawaharlal Nehru penned his famous
The Discovery of India, during his imprisonment there from 1942 to 1945
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to 19 sugar factories and also the birthplace of the cooperative
movement, Ahmednagar, the largest district of Maharashtra, is known
for its sugar, milk and bank cooperatives. About 120 km northeast of
Pune, Ahmednagar also houses one of the popular attractions of the
region, the Ahmednagar fort.
Keeping
tradition alive
Swedish national Helena Norberg-Hodge
formed Women’s Alliance of Ladakh to make the local youth feel proud
of their heritage. Today WAL members help women produce traditional
garments. They have also vowed to fight climate change, reports Kumar
Rakesh from Srinagar
Sonam
Yangzon breaks into an easy laugh and stretches her hands wide apart
when asked how much impact Women’s Alliance of Ladakh, of which she
is the president at present, has made on the lives of Ladakhi women.
Portrait
of the artist as a young man
Jan Lievens’ painting of
Rembrandt as a hopeful teenager is the earliest depiction of the
influential artist, writes Arifa Akbar
IT
is well known that the Dutch Master, Rembrandt, painted himself
throughout his lifetime, from his early twenties to the year of his
death in 1669, when he was established as one of the most influential
artists of his age.
‘Established
channels rejected Balika Vadhu’
Radhika Bhirani
Balika
Vadhu, a TV show on child
marriage, has become one of the most watched soaps on small screen.
Its writer Purnendu Shekhar says it was originally a movie script,
written 16 years back.
Sex
is out of Bollywood’s closet
Films like Dev D have
paved the way for much-needed openness and discussions about
relationships and sexuality, writes Shakuntala
Rao
ONE
of the great attractions of Hindi films historically has been to
provide the showing of spaces usually associated with transgressive
non-marital sexual relations. The most famous, of course, is the kotha
or the place for courtesans.
‘Blue
is my most difficult film’
Akshay is back with his Kambakkht
Ishq in which he romances Denise Richards, besides Kareena Kapoor. Sreya
Basu chats up the actor
Kambakkht Ishq has hit the
screen. Why do you think people will throng the theatres for Sylvester
Stallone, Brandon Routh and Denise Richards, or you?
For Kareena Kapoor ... you
missed her name. But seriously, today’s audience is too intelligent
and too hard to please ... you can’t fool them with a particular
name or scene or song.
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