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             Visual Arts - 

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Pamela Singh

She is still stunning and vivacious. The 1982 Miss India who almost brought down the British government because of her alleged affair with a leading Tory MP, has completely reinvented herself as a serious photographer. Pamela Singh recently put up an exhibition in Delhi of a series of self-portraits titled Angkor-Faiyum-Jaipur. It was  mixed media and the pictures were unusual. Many  were digitally enhanced and others cleverly painted .. more....

             

             People - An interview with Amitabh Bachchan

"Technology has changed everything. Today actors and directors are more committed, more knowledgeable, perhaps more intelligent. They are focused, career-driven and determined to succeed. In fact I keep learning a lot from them. They certainly have more energy and enthusiasm than there was in the seventies. There is a raw aggression to excel. Above all they have the belief they can win."           Read on ......

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Amitabh Bachchan

 

             Heritage - India's Living Mughals

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Begum Laila Umahani & clan

The Living Mughals is the story of four lost generations of the Mughal dynasty after Bahadur Shah Zafar. Arijeet Gupta's film unearths the direct descendents of the dynasty who now live in Hyderabad and have been lost in the mists of time.

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             Literature - Literary genes

When Kamila Shamsie's first novel, In The City By The Sea was short listed for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, critics raved about her stories of Karachi, London and beyond. Writing is in the genes.  

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             Nasir Khan - son of legendary Johnny Walker, is big on
              small screen

             Cotton - the fibre of civilisations - the beginning of a long   
             story

             Rafting on the Ganges 

             New Age Gurus

             Night jobs and how they affect women

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             more!

             

 

               

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May  2004 
Contents

 

 Music
 L Shankar - merging
 music


 Literature
 
Kamila Shamsie - 
 stories of Karachi &
 beyond

  
 
 Visual Arts
 Pamela Singh - her
 inner call


 Business & Industry
 Cotton textiles


 Adventure & Sports
 
Rafting on Ganges

 
 
 Heritage
 India's living Mughals
 
 
 People
 
Amitabh Bachchan
 

 Real Issues
 Alexandra Wrage - a 
 world free of B & C


  
Films
 Nasir Khan - small is 
 big


 Lifestyle
 New Age Gurus


 Women's Issues
 Night work & women



 

 the craft shop

 Lehngas - a limited collection

 the print gallery

 Books

 Between Heaven and Hell

  Silk Road on Wheels

 The Road to Freedom

 
Enduring Spirit

 Parsis-Zoroastrians of
India

 
The Moonlight Garden

 
Contemporary Art in
 Bangladesh
 

 


From the past issues

The First People of south Asia

The Jews of India

The Parsi Community of India

Modern Art in Pakistan

Elephant polo in Nepal

... and many more

 

Health

Tibetan medicine

Ayurvedic spas of Kerala

Technology

Optical networks

B2B - Efficiency & Profits

Reinventing India

Internet in South Asian Development