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Bride-shopping!
R.N. Sharma
WHEN
despite advertising in the matrimonial columns of almost all the
national dailies coupled with the efforts made by relations and friends,
one of my foreign-born-and-bred nephews, couldn’t find a suitable
match for himself, I really felt sorry for him.
Searching for faces in
the mob
Rooma Mehra
"THOSE
who forget history are condemned to repeat it" — the warning that
flashed on an ominously darkened T.V. screen, hunts oblivion from T.V.
and the front pages of newspapers.
Tales
India’s railway stations tell
Usha Bande
RAILWAY
stations in our country have a peculiar ambience of their own. On the
platform, it is the usual hurry and jostling that motivated Rudyard
Kipling to write, "...station filled with clamour and shoutings,
cries of water and sweetmeat vendors, shouts of policemen and shrill
yells of women gathering up their baskets, their families, their
husbands..." It was Kim’s journey from Lahore to Banaras in
pre-Independence India.
Authentic
paintings of the Last Supper
K.R.N. Swamy
THE
portrayal of the Last Supper, when just prior to Easter, Jesus Christ
took food; for the last time with his 12 disciples, is as important in
Christian iconography as the scene of Nativity which shows the infant
Christ being worshipped by angels.
An ode
to the tragedy queen
M.L. Dhawan
MEENA
Kumari and Manju were the names given to her, but she was born
Mahajabeen in 1933, the second of three daughters of Alibux and
Prabhawati. Alibux carried the child Mahajabeen to studios to look for
roles for hero. Chandulal Shah, a big studio tycoon, often assigned the
child regular work. With Vijay Bhatt’s Leather Face, baby Meena
began her film career in 1939.
Germany
beckons
Asha Singh
HAVING
exploited every tree, rock and flower at the most picturesque locales in
Switzerland, Australia and the United Kingdom, Indian filmmakers now
have an option. Germany has rolled out the red carpet to its magnificent
castles, pine tree forests and medieval streetscapes as possible
locations for Hindi films.
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