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...First to criticize the film were nationalistically minded viewers who didn't like the fact that it shows Pandey cavorting with prostitutes, consuming the narcotic bhang, and even befriending a "Britisher"?the film is structured around a friendship between Pandey and an English officer named Gordon. The director, Ketan Mehta, has a reasonable defense: the movie begins with a disclaimer, stating that it's a hybrid of fact and fiction. Not much is known about Pandey's life, and the film invents liberally; yet there is some plausibility to its inventions. No one knows, for example, whether or not Pandey...
...Springfest has become the president’s little Kiddie Carnival, which is unfortunate,” Lowell House Committee (HoCo) Co-Chair Neil K. Mehta ’06 says. “If you think of [Brown and Dartmouth] everyone has something big that they look forward to. In the meantime, the big spring event is Springfest where everyone is usually disappointed about the lack of a raucous all-out party weekend that people really want and really need...
...reaches the autumnal age of 85 this week, but in every other respect Aaron Copland seems to be basking in an Appalachian spring. To honor the quintessential American composer, public television will broadcast live on his birthday an all-Copland retrospective by the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta and Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein. The special performance will range from Copland's First Symphony (composed in 1928) to a newly orchestrated version of his recent piano piece, Proclamation, a span that delights the still octavely active octogenarian. "It is one of the most interesting programs of my work imaginable...
...have his readers made sense of Ved Mehta?and, in doing so, learned something about themselves? In The Red Letters, as in much of Continents of Exile, Mehta's prose is so polished that readers skate smoothly upon it?without ever breaking the surface, falling in, and getting lost in his life. What's missing from these memoirs, oddly enough, is evidence of the traits that define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted...
...Many books in Continents of Exile deal with Mehta's struggles, whether with parents or lovers. Yet the difficulties seem to be overcome too smugly; the books too often end with a complacent cadence that seems to say: "Thus I prevailed over this hardship too. Thus I grew." Perhaps this will always be one of the shortcomings of the memoir: that it takes a superhuman effort on the part of the writer to distance himself from these stories that are, after all, his own life. Continents of Exile, now that is completed, will probably induce other memoir writers to undertake...