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...Household Poet-Critic John Ciardi; among its vignettes: a sound track of the artist reading his own domestic verse ("Men marry what they need, I marry you"), while the camera watches his wife pouring herself coffee in their Metuchen, N.J., kitchen. Among future subjects: Painter Leonard Baskin, Indian Composer Ravi Shankar, Author P. G. Wodehouse, Film Maker Jean Renoir, and Metropolitan Opera Impresario Rudolf Bing...
...Oriental rug onstage. The audience at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium last week was equally exotic-a curious mingling of Indians in turbans or saris, bearded jazz musicians, leather-jacketed beatniks and college students. Racing his spidery fingers across the steel strings of his sitar, Ravi Shankar invoked a whining chorus of quavering, sensuous melodies in intricate interplay with the shifting, galloping cross-rhythms of the tablet (drums). Soaring above the metallic drone of an unfretted lute called a tamboura, Shankar finished in a furious display of virtuosity that brought a cheering ovation from the audience...
...notes on which the musician improvises. There are thousands of ragas, each conveying a specific mood-joy, eroticism, loneliness, etc. Says Saxophonist Shank: "Everybody says how free our music is, but in comparison with Indian music we are terrifically restricted. It's endless what a musician like Ravi can do." Transported. Shankar began as a dancer with the famed Indian troupe headed by his brother, Uday Shankar. At 18, he disposed of all his worldly possessions and settled in a remote village to study the devilishly difficult sitar with a guru. He practiced slavishly 14 hours...
Dialogue is sparce. The "story" is told by the faces on the screen, by what Ray makes us see in a swarm of pigeons, or a moving train, by the expressive music of Ravi Shanker. If Aparajito has a climax, it is the scene in which the boy learns of his mother's death. His wordless tears express his grief, his shame at not having cared enough for her while she liver, and at the same time his selfish need to make his own life a success in spite of his loss. Perhaps the boy brings such dignity...
Himalayan Snows. The problem of the Indus basin is that its six rivers (the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej, Beas) have their upper waters in India, yet flow through Pakistan to empty into the Arabian Sea. For 5,000 years-until partition-the river and canal network was developed as a single unit, creating a valley civilization that stretched back three millenniums before Christ. When the British took over in the 18th century, they added hydraulic engineering to the big and small canals leading off from the fingers of the river system. Some of the canals carry as much water...