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The 19th-century photographic studio brought about what the art historian, Partha Mitter, has called “great transformations of visual culture that broke away from earlier pictorial conventions, not least Mughal pictorial conventions”. Emergent pictorial traditions, he argues, were linked to the modernizing process of India to which “Victorian illusionist painting”, processes of mechanical reproduction and finally, the camera, contributed. ... | Read.. |
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Sir — History seems to be repeating itself. When the first human being landed on the moon on July 2 ... |
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Sir — Every Calcuttan feels sorry while reading about the despotic rule of autorickshaws and taxis ... |
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The American president’s — any American president’s — fitness programme is proudly shown off. It does not merely tell America... | Read..
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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more’ ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.’
— FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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