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Modernity has not diluted the traditional shades of the Festival of Colours. The Lathmar Holi of Barsana and the Nahan of Rajasthan have retained their folksy flavour, while the Kumaoni Holi has seen a revival of age-old rituals
 BHANG,
BANTER & BATONS
Shahira Naim
OUTSIDERS
dressed in traditional clothes and headgear, and high on endless
glasses of bhang-laced thandai, incite the
daughters-in-law from a suburban town of Mathura with snatches of
ribald rhymes and double entendre.
Splendour on the
sands
Moushumi Sen
THE
Nahan (pronounced as Nhan) is a unique Holi
extravaganza celebrated in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan.
Organised by the local Nhan Samiti, the 10-day
celebrations at Sangod, 50 km from Kota, become a hub of
colourful activity.
Revelry
reloaded
Rajeev Khanna
Besides
the rang of abeer and gulal that marks the
festival of Holi in other parts of the country, it is classical
music that gives an additional dash of colour to the
celebrations in the Kumaon Himalayas. |
Preserving
a legacy
Bhai Baldeep Singh has
taken up the arduous task of preserving and documenting the sacred
musical practices of the Sikhs, writes Charandeep
Singh
IT
is a journey that transcends boundaries. It is a journey which made
intangible heritage as tangible heritage. It is a journey which gave
succour to the quest of a desperate. It is a journey in which passion
became life.
Hungarian rhapsody
Situated on the banks of the river Danube, Budapest is cited as one
of the most beautiful cities in Europe, writes Ranjita Biswas
LiviNG
in India we are quite used to various fairs where artisans sell
their handicrafts, stalls offer traditional sweets and folk dancers
regale the visitors. But to come across a folk art fair in Budapest
was sheer luck.
Spiderman’s
web
of trouble
Spiderman’s
web of trouble on Broadway has just got stickier. Musical Spiderman
Turn Off the Dark has been hit with three serious violations of
workplace safety rules for a string of cast member injuries, the U.S.
Department of Labour has said.
Bee
watch
Bees, which are important as crop
pollinators around the globe, are on the decline, writes Michael
McCarthy
THE
mysterious collapse of honey-bee colonies is becoming a global
phenomenon, scientists working for the United Nations have revealed.
Declines in managed bee colonies, seen increasingly in Europe and the
US in the past decade, are also now being observed in China and Japan.
The
East-West fusion
Flute maestro
Hariprasad Chaurasia has encouraged many of his foreign students,
mostly from the US and Europe, to adopt Indian identities at his gurukuls,
writes Madhusree Chatterjee
FLUTE
maestro Hariprasad Chaurasia is helping the West relate to Indian
culture in a rather unusual way. He has encouraged at least 22 of his
foreign students, mostly from the US and Europe, to adopt Indian
identities at his gurukuls.
Cricket
topples Bollywood
If the unprecedented
TRP of 17.5 that the recent India-England match garnered is any
indication, Bollywood is justified in pushing its big releases until
after the World Cup. Deepa Karmalkar
finds that Bollywood is watching the World Cup with a bated breath and
is waiting for April to exhale
IN
a country where cricket is religion and Sachin Tendulkar the
God, the four-yearly Cricket World Cup is nothing short of Kumbh Mela
to which cricket worshippers submit completely. Such is the muscle
power of the game that even the traditional super power of Bollywood
takes a bow before it.
Honour for Buddhadeb
Shoma A. Chatterji
chats up Buddhadeb Dasgupta about his award-winning film Janala
Filmmaker
Buddhadeb Dasgupta has done it again. His recently released film Janala
(The Window) has won the Best Feature Film Award at Taipei’s 54th
Asia Pacific Film Festival.
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