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October 2003
People
- Ela Bhatt
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Ela Bhatt
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Ela Bhatt, or Ela
Behn, as she is fondly
known, founded, in 1972, south Asia’s first labour and trade union for
women workers in the informal sector. It was called SEWA. Ela Bhatt is now
campaigning for an insurance programme for SEWA members. She says, "I
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Films - Shyam Benegal chronicled by Sangeeta Datta
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For three decades Shyam Benegal has been portraying the
unglamorous side of life, narrating the real issues shorn of all the
razzle-dazzle of Bollywood. Now when parallel cinema is dying an unsung
death he remains its last great champion. UK-based film historian Sangeeta
Datta traces the master’s cinematic journey…
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The article...
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Wildlife - The extinct Cheetah & the almost
extinct Asiatic lion
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The
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The Indian
cheetah or hunting leopard, once so common, has disappeared from the Indian
jungles.
Past records indicate that in the 19th century, the distribution of the
Indian cheetahs ranged from Bengal to Punjab and to the Deccan in Peninsular
India. The last living cheetah was killed in 1952 in the Chittoor district
under the then state of Madras. Since then the cheetah has gone extinct and no official
record has ever indicated the cheetah’s existence in the jungles of the
Indian subcontinent. The
Asiatic lion is also teetering on extinction.
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Music
- 'My name is Gauhar Jan'
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Gauhar Jan was an accomplished singer and dancer of Calcutta in 1890s.
She was the first Indian artist to be recorded for the Gramaphone Company. The early records of Gauhar Jan are labelled ‘First
dancing girl, Calcutta’. Gauhar Jan recorded prolifically, a total of
over
600 songs over the period 1902 to 1920, which she sang in more than ten languages.
Gauhar Jan lived a very affluent
life. She was fond of horse-racing and would visit Bombay during the racing
season - spending the day at
the Mahalakshmi racecourse, and the evenings and nights at concerts.
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Read on...
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Other articles:
Ritu
Dalmia
Sushmita Sen
Jhumpa Lahiri
Pakistan Telecomm
Book Reviews
Sri Lanka's Tea Industry
Letter from Pakistan
and many others .......
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