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...First created during the Mataram kingdom in the 17th century, batik has been historically appreciated throughout the Indonesian archipelago, but especially by the people of central and eastern Java, where the technique of wax-resist dyeing originated. In recent decades, though, batik has gone into crisis: handworked cloth simply cannot compete in price with mass-produced printed textiles. Changes in the manufacture of batik - with several assembly-line workers now robotically completing individual stages that were once handled by a single highly skilled artisan - have also diminished the cloth's allure. Government support has become essential to the industry...
...best-selling recording artist in history, Rahman is the composer and producer (and sometimes the singer) of magnificent melodies for Bollywood musicals. Shadab Hasan Tariq?s amazing site contains virtually all of the music from 29 Rahman films, plus the ?Vande Mataram? song cycle, instrumental themes and the score of Rahman?s West End musical ?Bombay Dreams.? That?s coming to Broadway this spring, and Rahman is now creating the score for a ?Lord of the Rings? musical due in London next year. But why wait to be mesmerized? Click onto Music Central right now and play, for starters...
When the day came, followers of Gandhi's Indian National Congress party picketed government offices, sang their anthem, Bande Mataram.* They hung out Congress flags. They closed their shops. Leaders who were still unjailed tried to control the violence. They failed...
...name of this astonishing goddess? at once political and religious?is of course "Mother India." The political anthem and the religious chant of her devotees is Bande Mataram ("Hail Mother...
Fanatical Indian mobs surged in the streets of Madras, Calcutta and Bombay, last week, chanting the Swaraj (NonCooperation) party song "Bonde Mataram!" ("Hail, Motherland!"). Their excitement, which rapidly rose to the pitch of violence, was due to the landing at Bombay of the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME...
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