Word: deccan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saris. It was an art with no dark corners. The most extreme emotion that miniaturists normally allowed their figures was the decorative loneliness of palace ladies waiting for their lovers, as in the late 16th century Deccan painting of Girls in a Wood. Pattern is all: gold-spangled meadow and oddly scal loped red rocks; the delicate twist of tree trunks echoing the borders of the girls' saris. Indeed one of the pleasures of Indian miniatures lies in how nature is formalized while losing none of its vitality. In that flattened space, each shape presses...
...whims of weather have always bedeviled India's food production. This year the drought that appears every five years with devastating regularity has struck again, sweeping across India from the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea and north to the foothills of the Himalayas. Across the vast Deccan Plateau, where 50 million people live, crops are stunted, cattle emaciated, and people weak and exhausted from hunger. Thanks to astute stockpiling by the government-and to the Green Revolution that has helped to double food production in the past decade-India for the first time in centuries has enough...