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...Chief Minister of India's bustling southwestern state of Maharashtra, Abdul Rehman Antulay, 52, had built a reputation as an outspoken local leader of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress (I) Party. Antulay has presided in the state capital of Bombay over an ambitious array of populist projects designed to enhance both the party's image and his own. But last week Antulay was the center of a major scandal, in which he is alleged to have dispensed patronage and other favors in return for contributions and is said to have used Prime Minister Gandhi...
Antulay had set up trust funds designed to improve roads, build post offices, help jobless youths, the disabled and the poor. One fund was called the Indira Gandhi Pratibha Pratishthan (talent trust) to "encourage talented people in the fields of literature and the fine arts." The anti-Gandhi Indian Express claims that Antulay solicited money for the trust funds from businesses by granting building permits and other licenses, and by rewarding donors with scarce supplies of such state-controlled commodities as industrial alcohol and cement...
Philip Glass's Satyagraha is not your standard opera. For one thing, it is sung in Sanskrit. For another, it dramatizes Mohandas Gandhi's struggle against racial discrimination in South Africa between 1893 and 1914. The libretto is drawn entirely from the Bhagavad-Gita, the sacred Hindu text that served as the moral authority for Gandhi's nonviolent resistance movement-called Satyagraha, after the Sanskrit words for truth and firmness. But perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the opera, given its American premiere at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y., last week, is the music itself. Melodically sensuous, harmonically...
...opera about Gandhi, Philip Glass makes Sanskrit sing...
Satyagraha is certainly appealing, indeed beautiful. The score glows with a spiritual luminosity rarely encountered in this secular, anxious age, and its inner peace harmonizes with the tenets of the Bhagavad-Gita being sung and the goals of Gandhi's revolution acted out onstage. The opera's three acts (seven scenes) trace the beginnings of the Satyagraha movement during Gandhi's 21 years in South Africa: the founding of the Tolstoy Farm commune, the increasing resistance to discrimination against Indians, the climactic Newcastle march of 1913 in which Gandhi led striking miners in protest against restrictive racial...