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Basu, Work
Reviving
a listless economy and keeping the die-hard reds at bay—the new Chief
Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya will require extraordinary grit to junk
the legacy of Basu raj.
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Just Kiddie Talk: At
the second National Theatre Festival for Children in Delhi, teams from
across India—Assam, Bengal and even Goa —put up skits and plays about
“our views on life”. The Maharashtrian team’s gripping play, Manav ki
Kahani, was enacted by visually impaired children. Surprisingly mature
teenagers organised a rally and dressed up as jokers and in masks (above)
to talk about world issues like pollution and overpopulation. Way to go.
-Teresa
Rehman
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Times
Photographer
Shambhu Shaha, best known for his portraits of Tagore and Santiniketan
of the 1930s never had the guts to exchange a word with his subject. He
would fix long-range lenses on his Contax camera and hope for the best.
A retrospective of Shaha’s best works organised by his daughter Chandrima
in Calcutta also include photo- graphs of politicians like Nehru, Indira
Gandhi, Sarojini Naidu, portraits of royal weddings and moving shots of
the refugee influx of 1971. Shaha will share the picture with his wife
Karuna, an equally well-known painter—she was doing bold-line nudes in
the “purdah” 1950s. Chandrima, 49, their only child wants to show families
of artists how to preserve their legacy. So what’s it like putting two
immensely talented artists under the same roof? “I have two lifetimes
at my disposal to share,” she says. With parents like these, you can’t
go wrong.
-Labonita
Ghosh
Book
Worms
For
parents who complain that their kids watch too much tv and don’t read,
this was a pleasant surprise. At Meeting Place, an interactive session
in Chennai conducted by Zai Whitaker (author of children’s books Kali
and Ratsnake), the youngsters showed keen interest in Kali—a boy whose
tribe (Irulas) is engaged in catching snakes. When Whitaker revealed that
Kali was a real-life character and grew up with her son, the kids bombarded
her with questions like “When can we meet him?” Says publisher Radhika
Menon, “We plan regular book readings—the kind kids like.”
-Kavitha
Muralidharan
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all the noise about the cabinet resolution on dilution of the government’s
stakes in public sector banks, is anyone buying shares of these banks,
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Associate Editor V. Shankar Aiyar in an
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Long-forgotten
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