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the BJP wakes up to the problems of dissidence and ideological confusion,
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Monopoly,
So Long!
The
Government's vice-like grip over telecom gets a jolt with the opening
up of the long-distance sector without a limit on the number of entrants.
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Kiss
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With
a perceptible softening in Japan's attitude, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's
visit holds promise of a return to normalcy and opens new doors for economic
investment.
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Two's
A Crowd
Supper
theatre," said the organisers. But the "play" in question
at The Imperial hotel, Delhi, last week, gave the audience little to chew
on. An American in Khadi, based on Asha Sharma's book, was written by
US-diplomat-in-Delhi Lewis Elbinger. The book is the biography of Sharma's
grandfather Satyanand Stokes, an American Gandhian who settled down in
Himachal Pradesh in the early-1900s.
As for the
evening's production ... Thinking small is fine. But this was microscopic.
The play was just a reading session from a script by Elbinger and actor
Aditya Loomba, accompanied by a slide presentation and some singing. "I
worked in a simple way for it keeping in mind the resources I had,"
says Elbinger. "But then it's in keeping with the play's philosophy
which is high thinking and simple living." High thinking? Now where
was that?
-Anna M.M. Vetticad
Just
Chill
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J.P. Joy and Sharma at the party |
Heavy
raves lashed Delhi last weekend.
Chillem Foundation, organisers of rave parties in the capital, were launching
their own record label-Chillem Records- with a do at The Park hotel. Their
debut album is by Vimaan, a group consisting of Ashvin Mani Sharma and J.P.
While Sharma, who is Remo Fernandes' nephew, finished school at Sherwood
College before he got into a trance trip and headed off to Tashkent as a
deejay, J.P., a multi-instrumentalist and "ex-punk" from France, has taken
his guitar to Australia, Africa and the West Indies and produced two albums
with European rockers Seven Degrees before this. Will such super-niche albums
sell in India? Chandrajeet Hardy Mitra of Chillem is confident: "I'm tired
of this khichdi in the music market. Give me one good daal anytime. I know
lots of people who think alike." Judging by the hordes that came that day,
he's probably right.
-Anshul
Avijit
The
Other Side of Bharati
 In
a land that deifies its heroes, this might stir up trouble. The soon-to-be-released
film Bharati promises to offer rare insights into the life of legendary
Tamil poet Subramanya Bharati: his role as a revolutionary, as a rebellious
journalist, his trouble with the British administration, his relationship
with wife Chellamma, his death in penury at 39, and how only 14 people
attended his funeral. Says director G. Rajashekaran: "It is not a documentary
but a truthful narration of events in his life." In a precursor to the
likely public reaction comes this remark from an adviser to a government-run
film organisation who has seen parts of the script and film: "It's hard
to say if the masses who worship Bharati will accept a film that portrays
him as an ordinary person who is not without human foibles." A brewing
controversy, songs by maestro Illayaraja, and Marathi theatre actor Sayaji
Shinde playing the part of Bharati ... it's shaping up to be a potboiler.
-Methil
Renuka
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