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| The arts of humankind |
| Kumar Mukherji’s The Lost World of Hindustani Music |
| “For a sixteen-year-old youth who had yet to begin to shave,” writes Kumar Mukherji in his memoir of life as a music lover, “the winter of 1942 would best be remembered as the year when he heard Kesarbai [Kerkar], Roshanara Begum and Ustad Bade Ghula... |
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| Clear the air |
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Sir — There was much hoopla over the Union health ministry’s ban on smoking on screen. And yet, in ... |
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| Coloured dreams |
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Sir — The report, “Oscar ticket for Rang De” (Sept 26), comes as no great surprise. The hero, who ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — A recent advertisement by the Indian Railways must have satisfied a number of egos at one go. ... |
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| PROF THINKS IT’S BAD |
| It is just as well that great artists seldom live to witness some of the banal critical debates inspired by their works from ...|
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| Despoiling Himachal |
| Many friends ask me about owning a house in the hills. My late wife having inherited one 60 years ago, I can speak with autho... |
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Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy. It is, I suppose, one of their godlike qualities. Jahweh, as the Old Testament shows, spends a large part of His time trying to ruin the business and comfort of all other gods. — H.L. MENCKEN
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