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List of articles pertaining to Culture
Durga Puja festivities peaking on Wednesday, many eminent Bengalis feel its essence is being lost in
Tuesday, October 07, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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With Durga Puja festivities peaking on Wednesday, many eminent Bengalis feel its essence is being lost in the rush for commercialization and media publicity but nevertheless associate with it "goodness" and "magic" that make it a "larger-than-life" celebration. Durga Puja is like a real life cinema, thinks noted film director Gautam Ghose.
"Durga Puja has everything larger-than-life about it. Ido
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Bengalis
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The Delhi culture season is back
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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As everyone knows, the Delhi culture season is at its most active between Janmashtami and Holi. And the two most consistent post-Independence culture traditions of the Capital have been the Krishnalila and Ramlila ballets staged faithfully by the Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra. Shows may come and shows may go, but they, like the grand old epics, go on forever, thank God.
It’s really worth taking y
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Janmashtami
Delhi
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Ramu Ramanathan, the theatre pundit, writes on plays which have brought Mumbai to life on stage...
Monday, September 29, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Cyrus Mistry rose from obscurity when he bagged the Sultan Padamsee Playwright Award for this one, penning what could be one of the finest texts for the Indian English stage. The play is located in an ailing decrepit house which is used to look hard at the Parsi community in a cosmopolitan city.
The play staged by the late Toni Patel combined Parsi and Mumbaiyya life. The stage setting was reali
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Of names and more
Friday, September 26, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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This week we continue where we left off last week — talking of Hamida Begum, who built the Humayun’s tomb for her husband and brought 300 Arab builders with her from Mecca. She commissioned a Persian architect Ghiyas, who is credited with providing India with the first dome in the Persian style — a dome that is a complete semi-circle.
It is not clear whether the Arabs were invited by him or broug
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Haj
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Japan to celebrate colours of India
Friday, September 26, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Japan will come alive to the sounds and flavours of India September 27-28 in a cultural event, 'Namaste India', in the heart of Tokyo.
It will be organised by the India Centre Foundation, a culture forum that has been trying to promote sustainable development of the country in socio-economic, political and cultural domains.
In its 16th year, 'Namaste India', which was initiated by a Japanese
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India
organised
Centre
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The True Value of Art
Thursday, September 25, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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"The new Chelsea" is what south Mumbai's burgeoning art district is being termed as. While that statement may be premature and perhaps a tad optimistic, there is certainly a lot of exciting progress that is taking place. Emerging artists, in particular, may be the biggest beneficiaries as the mushrooming of trendy new art galleries provides them with a platform they didn't have earlier.
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Story of Navratra
Thursday, September 25, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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When Taimur the Lame invaded Delhi in September 1398 it was time for the Navratas preceding Dussehra. In those days the Kalkaji mandir and the one at Jhandewalan were the two highly venerated centres.
While the Kalkaji mandir’s history goes back to a dim antiquity, Jhandewalan is said to have come into prominence during the reign of Prithviraj Chauhan in the last quarter of the 12th Century. Nadi
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Trapping a lost art
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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Long before Pie in the Sky became a hit song in the early part of the 20th century, people only knew about the four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie! The nursery rhyme goes on to say that when the pie was opened, the birds began to sing, much to the amusement of the royal diner. This is not just an empty tale but something which was part of entertainment in feudal societies, both in the West a
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Bihar
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Beautiful in minds forever
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 www.hindustantimes.com
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This very evening at 6.30 pm at the India International Centre, where else, you can experience “a romantic nature, a clear articulation, a beautiful sound”, as vouched for by La Presse, Montreal, from young Canadian pianist Mathieu Gaudet. He’s on a seven-concert tour of India, his first appearance in Asia.
Gaudet has volunteered as a doctor-in-training in Africa and with the Inuit of Northern Ca
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Rachmaninov
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Rural tourism and travel trade
Friday, April 18, 2008 www.newstrackindia.com
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At present Indian tourism industry is blooming with a greater pace and so the share of rural tourism. It is not merely developing five star hotels in some of the preferred destinations but reaching out some unexplored destinations in the remotest rural locations where travellers could find the best in rural arts and heritage.
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