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...relative neglect, modern art is now going through an extraordinary boom in India. Entrepreneurs, engineers and stockpickers enriched by the nation's economic rise have discovered that abstract paintings can make for a good investment, and prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot be taken out of the country, overseas Indians, the most lavish patrons of art, have avoided buying her works. All that changed in March, when...
...month. Among the beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding blast in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain, a Thai banquet for 2,000 and a helicopter to ferry the groom to the ceremony. Indian weddings, Raheja says, are more than the union of boy and girl: "It's the merging of two families, often two businesses...
...year high. Among the beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain, a Thai banquet for 2,000 and a helicopter to ferry the groom to the ceremony. Indian weddings, Raheja says, are more than the union of boy and girl: "It's the merging of two families, often two businesses...
...taking place in Karachi, which is now the main seaport, industrial and financial hub of the country. The city boasts several top-notch educational institutions, its standard of living is increasing and security is getting better. I invite you to visit, and assure you of complete peace. Marya Husain Karachi...
...Investigators discovered that the phone had registered an incoming call from another mobile (which they believe was an attempt to detonate the explosive). Philippine intelligence sources say that several calls had been made from that second phone to senior Abu Sayyaf figures. There was also a single call to Husain made on Oct. 3 at 11:34 a.m.?one day after a bombing in Zamboanga City attributed to Abu Sayyaf had killed three people, including a U.S. soldier...