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July 03, 2000

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Strangers in the night

Aussie blitz

Rock 'n' raga

Way to go

Go Mumbai
Go Bangalore
Go Pune
Go Chennai

Trendy Village

Culture Town

Last week a Calcutta-based company unveiled plans for the Rs 218 crore Fortune City (a brainchild of vocalist A. Kanan) that will have all the trappings of a hi-tech music village -- villas, gyms, a club, a multiplex auditorium. "That's what it will take to reverse the organised cultural invasion by the West," says Dipankar Roy, president of Fortune Leisure. But soon enough there was a whiff of controversy -- Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who was much-publicised as a board member, said he did not know anything about it. And a local artiste was heard complaining why he also didn't get to hear of it before. Why indeed?

-Labonita Ghosh

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