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...world. Mango and banyan trees are growing in front of the building's imposing gray columns, while lotus flowers bob in a pond under drizzling London rain. The foreign flora - provided by the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew - makes up the "India Landscape," part of the British Museum's "Indian Summer," a five-month celebration of Indian culture. The exhibition's centerpiece is "Garden and Cosmos," a collection of 54 bold 17th and 19th century paintings from the courts of Jodhpur, in the modern-day state of Rajasthan. Never before seen in Europe, the pictures draw on Rajasthani artists' varied...
...everyone sees the Rothko comparison as a compliment. A Hindustan Times column sniffed that it is a patronizing "reflex of lost Empire" to praise ancient Indian painters through the works of modern Western ones. "The British Museum is a robber's cave and testimonial to the 'engulf and devour' Western worldview that Asia and Africa know intimately to their considerable cost," the column continued. True, the British Museum and Kew Gardens were founded in the 1750s, when Britain bestrode the world. But in a year when a Bollywood-style movie triumphed at the Oscars, when pundits have taken to warning...
...would shed light on an "emerging superpower." They may not have known it at the time, but the Jodhpuri painters who depicted the worldly and otherworldly powers in both classical and radically innovative ways, foreshadowed India's role as a burgeoning global cultural heavyweight. Like modern Bollywood filmmakers and Indian writers and musicians, they recognized tradition, but took risks to grow beyond...
...Eastern and African Australians complain that they are somehow considered less truly Australian than those who came from, say, Italy, Greece or Croatia. An influx of foreign students into Australian universities - many of them Asian - has heightened tensions. In an ugly series of incidents in Victoria in recent months, Indian students have been attacked in so-called "curry bashings." (Indians are the second largest group of foreign students in Australia, after the Chinese.) The attacks caused a storm in India, and when Rudd called Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to congratulate him on his recent re-election, Singh brought...
...didn't feel a thing.' KASSIM BAKARI, on his 14-year-old daughter Bahia, the only passenger to survive the crash of a Yemeni airliner in the Indian Ocean; 152 others are presumed dead...