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Wednesday, April 29, 1998
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Modern-day Gullivers find Holland a Liliput country
Foreigners in The Netherlands often feel small when they meet tall Dutchmen. In lifts in the small northern country, an average-sized European's scalp often only reaches up to other people's chests, and in the cinema, fellow Dutch movie-goers sitting in the front rows are frequently so tall that their heads obstruct one's view.
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Prime time to pay up, DD tells debtors
Stung by criticism that it has taken no action against bigwigs who owe it money and prompted perhaps by Union minister of state for information and broadcasting Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's `blacklist' of 21 companies, Doordarshan is finally insisting that all debtors pay up.
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Hassan's Gabbars rule over their own Ramgad
It is a scene straight out of any masala flick that passes by the name of a movie these days -- hooligans striding across the roads, smashing property, assaulting people, women from `decent' families frightened to venture out... Only here it is not the sets of Gabbar Singh's Sholay, but Hassan's very own Ambedkar Nagar, the land of the great Kannada novelist Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar.
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New dimensions to the past
The Enduring Image exhibition has been more than a mere kowtowing to antiquity. Besides the show itself -- at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) -- the many satellite events organised under its banner have served as an injection of energy in to Mumbai's cultural world. The latest boost comes in the form of an ongoing exhibition, The Presence of the Past.
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