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Pottering
Around
Somewhere
amidst the dust-encrusted sculptures and the styrofoam cup-spewed lawns
in front of the Lalit Kala Akademi officials drinking weak tea in the
afternoon sun, sound works of art are being slapped into position and
baked. The Akademi's International Ceramic Art Camp, attempts, along with
daily lectures and poetry readings, to add substance to its 10th Triennale-India.
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CLAY
CONCERN: Bhatt at work at the Ceramic Art Camp in New Delhi
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Ten
Indian sculptors ('International' refers to a no-show Korean), live and
work at the Akademi's Garhi studio in Delhi till February 12. According
to Convener V.D. Sharma, the stringent selection process ensured that
the country's best attend the camp. For free. Which somehow explains why
the chosen few had to fork out for the Triennale brochure. Chennai-based
Karuna Murthy's glazed tiles are an abstract representation of the nine
planets; Meenu Srivastav's clutch includes masks and a lilliputian tea
set; Jyotsna Bhatt's moulding is interspersed with lively musings and
Shantanu Jena's offering is a gluttonous vase. The selected works areheaded
for the Akademi's Rabindra Bhavan Gallery.
-Sonia Faleiro
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 KOLKATA
Restaurant
Mah
Jong is an ancient oriental game of gambling. So Jong's, a Chinese,
Japanese and Thai restaurant that opened in the city recently, predictably
has a lot of dice and gameboards as part of its muted, wood-panelled
décor. But Kolkatans might be more interested in the menu,
especially the Japanese starters like spicy prawns with lemon and
chives or the milder tofu, cabbage and capsicum in garlic sauce.
The rest of the menu has some variations on old Thai favourites
like red, green and yellow curries. Dinner for two is Rs 600 (without
drinks and jumbo prawns). Call (033) 249-5572.
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 BANGALORE
Art Exhibition
Last
month, 15 reputed artists had been a part of a lively all-India
art camp held at coffee town Chikmagalur. Now the same works of
the eclectic bunch of painters-from abstractionists Yusuf Arakkal
and Surya Prakash to figurative image-makers Manu and Madhavi Parekh,
Surendran Nair and Rekha Rodwittiya-will show the works at the Chitra
Art Gallery Kannada Bhavan, J.C. Road, till February 20. Call (080)
226-4021 for more details.
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 NEW
DELHI
Play
Recipient
of the Sahitya Kala Parishad's Play of the Year Award in 2000, I'm
Not Sheikh Chili, on the friendship of two old men, directed by
Avijit Dutt and produced by Yatrik, will be staged at the India
Habitat Centre on February 12 and 13 (tickets are for Rs 50 and
Rs 100). The comedy, that highlights the society's attitude towards
the aged, will also tour Chennai and Bangalore in March, and Dubai
and Abu Dhabi in May. Call (011) 462-6789 for more details.
-Contributed
by Labonita Ghosh, Stephen
Devid and
Methil Renuka
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Who says Indian theatre is dying? Playwrights--both
veteran and budding--in the country had a chance to interact with those
from the Royal Court Theatre, London, at its first residency workshop
in Bangalore recently.
It was a fortnight
of enrichment, concludes Principal Correspondent Stephen David
in Despatches.
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INTERVIEWS
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"I was
very much against the idea of India," says William Dalrymple, author,
The City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi. In conversation with INDIA TODAY's
Sonia Faleiro, he talks about his old girlfriend, Delhi and his
"enormously exciting" next book, The White Moghuls in
Interviews.
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