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| Long
and winding road to Rishikesh |
| The Beatles went to Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi?s ashram to find peace. Paul Saltzman went to piece together a broken
heart. The results of their chance encounter for a magical week in 1968 will come
together in a new book by the now-established filmmaker. Amit Roy reports from
London |
| There is now a pretty solid
body of evidence that for The Beatles, India was their most creative period. When
they were in Rishikesh for several weeks in February, March and April of 1968,
they wrote between 23 and 48 songs, 17 of which were included ... |
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| Bold
& beautiful |
| Revolution has many faces.
In Bollywood, it came wearing an eye-mask, snapping a whip and beating up a bunch
of baddies. The ... | Read.. |
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| ?There
is a lot of pain in these pages? |
| My sharpest memory of her,?
writes Mary Roy, author Arundhati Roy?s mother, about her own mother in an essay
entitled, ?Three Generations of Women?, ?is when I was a four-year-old child and
she was a young and beautiful woman. Standing in the living ... | Read.. |
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Terrors of Holi |
| In Mathura, they celebrate
?laathmaar? Holi. The women of the community come out with sticks and bludgeon
the men, who must defend themselves with shields. It?s all in good fun, apparently,
but all across north India you can sense a sigh of envy risi... | Read.. |
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| What
goes into a sex bomb? |
| I have often wondered ? and stand
in great awe and admiration of ? women of sexual appetite. How in heaven do they
find the ... | Read.. |
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