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...recognized that the Veritas of John Harvard was not just a commitment to the expanding horizons of knowledge but to upholding the torch and democracy round the world. Benigno Acqaino's years at Harvard will I hope, be looked upon with pride in the annals of a great university. Jagat S. Mehta Tom Slick Professor of World Peace (former Foreign Secretary of the Government of India) The University of Texas
...Indian court art, whether Muslim or Hindu, was permeated by a meticulously apportioned lavishness. Adjectives tend to buckle under its splendors. One chubby royal playboy, Jagat Singh II of Mewar, spent ?250,000 - at a time when a field peasant might hope to earn seven shillings a year - building and embellishing pavilions on the islands of his private lake, be fore he died at the tender age of 18 in 1752. Because miniature painting was the court art par excellence, a distillate of countless man-hours for people with infinite leisure, it provides a spyhole to the detail of this...
...weighed in the balance with Pather Panchali and found slightly wanting. But such a comparison misses the point: as the second movement in a composition, Aparajito is meant to express the consequences of the first movement, Father Panchali, and to prepare the mood of the third movement, Apu Jagat ("The World of Apu"), which will probably be released in the U.S. in late 1959. In a pictorial sense the film lacks something of the noble simplicity of Father Panchali, but if its images are more sophisticated, they are no less brilliant and effective. What is perhaps most striking...
Divorced. Jagat Jit Singh Bahadur, Maharajah of Kaparthala, by Anita Delgado, in Paris, presumably on the grounds of white civilization's objection to his harem. It is reported that the Maharanee, who is 35, Spanish and a professional dancer, will marry her 30-year-old stepson, the Maharajah's heir...
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