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Fine photography is let down by superficial writing in a recent study of graphic art, opines Richard Turner. Apparently inspired by the Victoria and Albert Museum's Cinema India exhibition of film memorabilia in 2002, Keith Lovegrove's sumptuous survey extends to include advertising and street signage in general. Graphicswallah (London: Laurence King Publishing 2003) benefits hugely from the

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The elder became a dance teacher and performer in the UK. The younger became a film star.Richard Turner meets Geetha Sridhar and Sukanya Ramesh, reunited. Geetha Sridhar is jovial and chatty as she searches through the video cassettes in the corner of the sitting room in her comfortable terraced house in Fulham, south west London. She's trying to find a tape of her sister Sukanya's Doordarshan

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by Imran Khan Anarkali, June 1999 Anarkali Bazaar, named after the most famous courtesan of Mughul history, was the first commercial extension, beyond the gates of the walled city. Supervised under the Raj (colonial setup), it soon became the main hub of all trades. Today, this area is famous for its food. Through out the day people from all walks of life enjoy scrumptious cuisines.

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by Shounak Krishnanand Holi, the festival of colours, like many Indian festivals, commemorates the victory of good over evil. It is celebrated on the day after full moon night in the Hindu Calendar month of Phalguna which usually falls in March. The origins of Holi lie in a mythological story of a demon King Hiranyakashyapu whose son, Prahlad worships Lord Vishnu. In order to kill Prahlad,

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by Imran Khan City by the Night, Photogram, 8" x 12" This particular photogram is a depiction of Lahore's skyline in the night during the festival of Basant. During the festival, Lahore's sky lights up and there are kites flying everywhere, with blaring music, scrumptious food and full of life people on every roof top. The Walled City 1, Print (etching), 6" x 3" The Walled City of Lahore,

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Through an extraordinary quirk of fate, Dr Meeta Pandit has found herself the inheritor of a precious musical legacy. Richard Turner attends her Nehru Centre concert and interviews the stylish young singer As they swept in through the Georgian grid of Mayfair for her sound check, their long winter coats over saris gave the soloist and her tanpura player the outline of two contemporary angrez

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The Maharajah's Daughters is a tender treatment of a colonial legacy. Review by Richard Turner What for Christy Cambpell had been a racy Victorian spy story has now, in the more than capable hands of Mehtab Theatre, become transformed into a deeply touching and affectionate tale of two sisters, adrift in Edwardian England. Campbell's 2001 opus The Maharajah's Box was the starting point

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