Melodious music
The 50-years-old Shankar Lal Music Festival occupies a place of pride among the music events held in the country. This year, both the established and the young artistes, including Hari Prasad Chourasia, Prateek Choudhury, Shati Sharma, Shiv Kumar Sharma and Pandit Jasraj, performed at the festival.

The blue bowl of the sky
The retrospective of the creative activity of Devyani Krishna, now showing at the National Museum of Modern Art, could well be seen as a journey through the alleys and caverns that surround the more lighted and mapped highways of the Indian art of today.

Prolonged torture
A real case of the blues. Dil Hi Dil Mein wanted to be the first to depict romance engineered over the Internet. But you want to remind A M Ratnam that not even those who eat nails and tubelights to get into the record books inflict such prolonged torture on other people.


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