Alleged rape of a starlet, a society suicide, prime-time news lead, naturally. It's unlikely that most of those who tearfully watched the coverage of Nafisa's passing will know of Gunnala Narayana or his son Gunnala Kumar.
'... because I use tradition as a springboard to other things in my art,' says Anita Ratnam: 'Today, tradition is treated like a pond: stagnant and dull. We define tradition as what we can easily identify with, what makes us comfortable.'
It must be the rarefied air at those heights and the breathtaking view of mountains and valleys, not just of the sort you'd normally imagine, on a Delhi-Leh flight that left our travelling friend gasping for breath...
The itinerant author of, most recently, <i>Abandon</i>, reflects on the inequities of today's 'us-versus-them' world and says he is 'greedy with time, parsimonious in handing it out, miserly in hoarding it.'
In terms of costs and choice, the rollout of the Conditional Access System is great news for cable TV subscribers.
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