The Indian Express -- Leisure

Thursday, July 24 1997

TODAY'S CROSSWORD TODAY'S ZODIAC

Matchstick magic

It is a deceptively simple art, with its childlike figures, animals, birds and images of song and dance liberally dotting the canvas. It's an art form that's inextricably linked to its soil and surroundings. And if there's anything that the Warli art exhibition, currently on at the Y B Chavan Centre, reveals is that a new voice has emerged in tribal art.

All said and done

For the young and gawky Jatin Das, fresh out from the middle-class confines of the Mayurbhanj estate in Orissa, Bombay was a revelation in more ways than one. While JJ School of Arts, where Das was enrolled as a fine arts student, honed his visionary power - fed on the rich folk and tribal art of his native state -- it was also the place where he found new meaning into human behaviour and relationships in context of society and nature.

Falling in step

Having waded through seven years of controversy and unfulfilled projects, Nrityagram came of age with success of its ensemble and star performer Surupa Sen. The dance village has undergone yet another dramatic change with the retirement of its founder Protima Gauri Bedi.

Pick Week

Behind the mask