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...lifelong fan - and almost as freely about his struggle to become an actor. He grew up in Jaipur, a city of crumbling palaces in the north Indian desert, as the eldest son of a conservative, aristocratic Muslim family. The popular movies he watched in the 1960s, such as Mughal-E-Azam and Guide, were pure escape - gorgeous fantasies of epic love and tragedy. By the time he was a teenager in the 1970s, the socially conscious new wave of the 1960s - so-called parallel cinema - began to enter the mainstream, bringing Indians' everyday experiences to the big screen. Khan...
...festival, located in the desert of the Indian state of Rajasthan, is a star-studded literary event, but with a breezy, shoes-off feel. Held almost entirely outdoors, during the daylight hours overflow crowds sit cross-legged at the entrance of the Mughal tent. Turbaned waiters serve tea in clay cups. When the day cools in the evening, women in saris sip on Indian wine and tables with mixed accents relax as the vibe morphs from seminar to rock concert. (See pictures of India...
...their 30s and 40s, have trained or taught (sometimes both) at the school. Among them is Zahoor ul Akhlaq, a guiding spirit whose tortured acrylic A Visit to the Inner Sanctum 4 recalls the wide, flat planes of Matisse and Rothko as well as the framed spatial arrangements of Mughal illuminated manuscripts...
...Equally influenced by Akhlaq are Imran Qureshi's disjunctive, miniature paintings from his Moderate Enlightenment series, in which Pakistanis are shown doing everyday things. These gouache portraits, an old Mughal genre Akhlaq helped to revitalize, are seductively simple at first - one figure, apparently a writer of some kind, is depicted musing tranquilly beneath a tree with a notebook. But a closer look reveals his camouflage socks, suggesting he's no entranced poet but perhaps a scribbler of terrorist screeds...
...Liberhan Commission was appointed immediately after the events in Ayodhya, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The Babri mosque, which was built by a Mughal Emperor in 1528, is believed by many Hindus to have been built on the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram, and right-wing Hindu politicians had for years sought to exploit sectarian passions by promising to build a temple honoring Ram on the site of the mosque. On Dec. 6, 1992, amid the sounds of the ceremonial conch, a Hindu mob ravaged the mosque, reducing it to rubble. The act sparked Muslim outrage around...