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...DIED. AMRITA PRITAM, 86, novelist and poet who published her first story collection at age 16 and went on to write more than 60 works exploring the suffering of South Asian women and the violent division of the Indian subcontinent following the end of British rule in 1947; in New Delhi. Born to a Sikh family in what is now Pakistan, Pritam fled to India during the country's partition?a brutal period that she described in her most famous poem, Ode to Waris Shah...
Sellathurai Mahalingam was standing on the bridge of the M.V. Semlow watching night settle upon the Indian Ocean when he first realized he and his crew were in trouble. The waters off East Africa were unseasonably flat and the Semlow, loaded with 850 tons of rice, food aid for victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan...
...documents surrounding Robeson’s Othello. Pusey Library. Free. (LEB)Silver and Shawls. Through Jan. 29. This exhibit highlights shawls and silver tableware produced in India during the late colonial period, focusing on the evolution of the former towards European styles and the latter towards more traditional Indian designs. Accompanied by a series of lectures and gallery talks by curators throughout the semester. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK)Stratification: An Installation of Works Since 1960. Through Feb. 26, 2006. Curatorial intern M. Celka Straughn organized this exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven key pieces...
This weekend, South Asian cultures—both old and new—will converge upon the Harvard stage in the production, “Kalpanam: Classical Imaginations.” The program’s dance performance pieces not only typify traditional Indian dance styles—dancers will perform lively Kuchuppudi folk dances and classic Bharathnatyam dance narratives about Hindu gods—but are also accented with bits of modern flair...
...said Wofsy. “Sometimes it produces fairly warm weather, and sometimes it’s going to be very windy and you get storms in there.” The period of warm weather Cambridge is currently experiencing is commonly called “Indian summer”—a period of abnormally warm weather in late autumn that follows the first frost. The etymology of the term “Indian Summer” is oft-debated and Wofsy noted the term is also politically incorrect. One theory says the term “Indian...