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Egyptian Sufi dance sets the capital alight

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Nearly a dozen whirling dervishes of the mystic Sufi cult set the stage at the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (IGNCA) on fire with their high-energy religious folk dance and music in the capital Saturday evening. The dancers of Egypt\'s famous Al Tanourra ensemble performed the Al Darawish dance - circular movement of bodies that reaches a crescendo.

Germany launches fellowship to boost South Asian culture ties

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The South Asian Network of the German government's Goethe-Institut Sunday announced a fully funded fellowship to further boost cultural relations with India and create cultural leaders....
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261 women artists paint their thoughts

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Spirituality, women\'s bonding, landscapes, coloured abstractions, shapes and figures - 261 artists from all over the world have put their thoughts on 300 canvases in one of the biggest women\'s art exhibitions at the Art Mall here. ...
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M.F. Husain surrenders Indian passport in Qatar

New Delhi, March 9(IANS) Iconic artist Maqbool Fida Husain, who has been granted Qatari citizenship, has surrendered his Indian passport to the Indian embassy in Doha, an official said. ...
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National language meet calls for linguistic survey

Vadodara, March 9 (IANS) Eminent linguist and the founder director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages D.P. Pattanayak Monday urged the central government to conduct the long overdue linguistic survey in the country. ...
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Agra music legend struggles to survive

By Brij Khandelwal----- Agra, March 9 (IANS) One of the last exponents of the Agra Gharana of Hindustani classical music, 86-year-old Ustad Akeel Ahmad Khan is not only unwell but is also a disenchanted man. He has no government support and says this city "honours only the dead"....
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Husain should return to his 'culturally exuberant' India

By Mayank Chhaya----- A quarter century ago sitting amid designer chaos of paintings and sketches in various stages of completion in his Cuffe Parade apartment in then more-tolerant Bombay, painter Maqbool Fida Husain had a telling response to a question about being Indian. ...
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Holi splashes its colours on India

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Clouds of colour in the air, faces unrecognisable but for big smiles, frenzied dancing, and the sweetest of sweetmeats...India Monday immersed itself in Holi - a festival that leaves few untouched, be it young or old, rich or poor, Hindu or Muslim....
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Chandigarh struggling to save legacy of its architect

By Alkesh Sharma--- Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) Decades after master architect Le Corbusier designed Chandigarh, the only planned city in independent India, its administration is fighting to retrieve his artefacts which have been auctioned in France. ...
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Casanova: The man who seduced 122 women

By Siegfried Mortkowitz---- Paris, Feb 24 (DPA) History has been unkind to Giacamo Casanova, reducing his contribution to Western culture to the use of his name as a synonym for womaniser and philanderer. Casanova has particularly fallen out of favour today, in a world in which safe sex, women's liberation and political correctness have made pariahs of men who pride themselves, as Casanova did, of having seduced more than 100 women....
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Egyptian Sufi dance sets the capital alight

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Nearly a dozen whirling dervishes of the mystic Sufi cult set the stage at the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts (IGNCA) on fire with their high-energy religious folk dance and music in the capital Saturday evening. The dancers of Egypt\'s famous Al Tanourra ensemble performed the Al Darawish dance - circular movement of bodies that reaches a crescendo.

Germany launches fellowship to boost South Asian culture ties

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The South Asian Network of the German government's Goethe-Institut Sunday announced a fully funded fellowship to further boost cultural relations with India and create cultural leaders.

261 women artists paint their thoughts

New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Spirituality, women\'s bonding, landscapes, coloured abstractions, shapes and figures - 261 artists from all over the world have put their thoughts on 300 canvases in one of the biggest women\'s art exhibitions at the Art Mall here.

M.F. Husain surrenders Indian passport in Qatar

New Delhi, March 9(IANS) Iconic artist Maqbool Fida Husain, who has been granted Qatari citizenship, has surrendered his Indian passport to the Indian embassy in Doha, an official said.

National language meet calls for linguistic survey

Vadodara, March 9 (IANS) Eminent linguist and the founder director of the Central Institute of Indian Languages D.P. Pattanayak Monday urged the central government to conduct the long overdue linguistic survey in the country.

Agra music legend struggles to survive

By Brij Khandelwal----- Agra, March 9 (IANS) One of the last exponents of the Agra Gharana of Hindustani classical music, 86-year-old Ustad Akeel Ahmad Khan is not only unwell but is also a disenchanted man. He has no government support and says this city "honours only the dead".

Husain should return to his 'culturally exuberant' India

By Mayank Chhaya----- A quarter century ago sitting amid designer chaos of paintings and sketches in various stages of completion in his Cuffe Parade apartment in then more-tolerant Bombay, painter Maqbool Fida Husain had a telling response to a question about being Indian.
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Holi splashes its colours on India

New Delhi, March 1 (IANS) Clouds of colour in the air, faces unrecognisable but for big smiles, frenzied dancing, and the sweetest of sweetmeats...India Monday immersed itself in Holi - a festival that leaves few untouched, be it young or old, rich or poor, Hindu or Muslim.

Chandigarh struggling to save legacy of its architect

By Alkesh Sharma--- Chandigarh, Feb 26 (IANS) Decades after master architect Le Corbusier designed Chandigarh, the only planned city in independent India, its administration is fighting to retrieve his artefacts which have been auctioned in France.

Casanova: The man who seduced 122 women

By Siegfried Mortkowitz---- Paris, Feb 24 (DPA) History has been unkind to Giacamo Casanova, reducing his contribution to Western culture to the use of his name as a synonym for womaniser and philanderer. Casanova has particularly fallen out of favour today, in a world in which safe sex, women's liberation and political correctness have made pariahs of men who pride themselves, as Casanova did, of having seduced more than 100 women.