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The issue is art, not aesthetics

  11 June, 1998 - 10:57 am | 30 March, 2013 Articles
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The public apology by the commercially challenged MF Hussain has not just salvaged his proposed film project with cinestar Madhuri Dixit, but also quieted public passions on the sensitive issue. However, Hussain’s unexpected capitula­tion before the “watch-dogs of a political-religious outfit” must have come as a setback to the artists, … Read More →

From ambivalence to affirmation

  28 May, 1998 - 10:53 am | 30 March, 2013 Articles
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As was only to be expected, our breast-beating Cassandras have once again been proved wrong, and the worst of international hostility to India’s unexpected de­cision to go nuclear is already behind us. Even as opposition parties, leftists, secular intellectuals, and peaceniks got the knives out for the Vajpayee Government in … Read More →

Sita is the centre of consciousness

  14 May, 1998 - 10:51 am | 30 March, 2013 Articles
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It is an irony that as the secular condem­nation of the ransacking of Maqbool Fida Husain’s Mumbai residence reaches a crescendo, saner voices in the Muslim community are being edged out of the debate. As self-styled liberals and defenders of artistic freedom jostle for centrespace in what could have been … Read More →

The crown she thrice refused not

  26 January, 1998 - 10:47 am | 30 March, 2013 Articles
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Ms Sonia Gandhi has clearly decided not to repeat the mistakes of her an­cient compatriot, Julius Caesar. Indeed, the alacrity with which she has ac­cepted the Congress crown brings to mind the wisdom of another Italian notable and his rather acute observation: “Men more readi­ly forgive the murder of their … Read More →

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