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...decades Bollywood produced the chastest of films: boy met girl, but there were no kisses, hips only thrust during dance numbers, and the audience knew that romance would be followed by marriage. But in the past two years, Bollywood has shed its modesty. While the movies are still tame by Western standards, new films portray promiscuity, prostitution, gay relationships, and some-although not all-have rung chimes at the box office. A quick guide to how Bollywood has discovered...
...wild-eyed lunatic Harold Keke, who is now in custody, accused of several atrocities during the tensions. At Vunusa, a treacherous jungle walk or short river wade (your choice) from the Isuna police post, community chief Philip Limaihado is briskly leading visitors through vegetable gardens, past a thatched shed that is a church, and into a small settlement that has changed little in centuries. For the 400 people who live in this group of five villages, getting beyond subsistence is a struggle. It's all but impossible to sell produce; they can't even get it to market. Rain often...
...blatant misuse of the language of their imperialist enemy. And her friend's grandfather, a construction worker, mentions that he is building a large market ("We people are all curious about such a market," he says), suggesting that economic reforms are filtering through to everyday life. These snippets shed little light, but A State of Mind is illuminating in one very basic way: seeing the families at close range reminds us that North Koreans are people...
Hello gorgeous. The words are painted in pink above the kitchen sink of a rundown shed in the middle of Australia's Western Desert. As unlikely as it seems, this is the engine room of one of the world's most extraordinary art movements. Outside in the heat two decades ago, Uta Uta Tjangala painted his magisterial Old Man's Dreaming, which marked the Pintupi people's return to their land from the government settlement of Papunya. They brought with them to Kintore, 500 km west of Alice Springs, a lifetime of dreamings, but also something new: Papunya Tula Artists...
...Back at Kintore's shed, Josephine Napurrula applies the last of her white impasto daubs to the canvas. These are packed like cotton-wool clouds around the picture's central image of an ice-gray waterhole. "Finished," she says, before breaking into raucous laughter. Now, in the desert, a new journey begins...