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Art - culture

A glossary of Indianness
Ambassador: Amitabh: Amritsar: Ashoka: Astrology
Sixty
years after Independence, however, it will no longer do to duck the
question. For amidst our diversities we have all acquired a sense of what we
have in common: the assumptions, the habits, the shared reference-points
that constitute the cultural and intellectual baggage of every thinking
Indian. ..
by SHASHI THAROOR

It’s
quite a beauty
Writer-director Deepa Mehta’s
widely-discussed-and-imperiled Water did deserve to make all the waves it
did. It’s a beauty, understated and elegantly narrated despite its subject
of widow rehabilitation, which could have become mega-melodramatic and
sensationalistic in lesser accomplished hands....Khalid
mohammad on WATER.

A good
Friday, finally
At the screening of director ANURAG Kashyap’s Hindi
translation of filmmaker Luc Jacquet’s film Penguins, A Love Story Rashmi
Kumar talks to him about Black Friday, his controversial film that finally
releases on February 9
All set for a red letter day
something
a little different
-------------------------Parzania
is
a wake-up call
Breathtaking
untold story
A powerful
eye-opener
Parzania lost
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Lage Raho Munna Bhai: Unravelling Brand `Gandhigiri`
by
Arunabha Ghosh-Tapan Babu
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Freedom to paint Hindu
Goddesses
by
Gerald fitz
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‘Even
marketing is an art form.
M.F. Hussain
told
to Shekhar Gupta
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