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...next portion of the exhibit consists largely of works by Raja Ravi Varma. A late 19th-century painter, Varma is easily the most famous artist in India. He used European techniques to illustrate Indian subject matter: various sari-clad women, figures from Hindu mythology, and scenes from everyday Indian life...
...with each new bombing elsewhere in the country. There have been at least 10 major blasts over the past 18 months, the most recent one in Assam. Two Maharashtra state officials fell next: Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who took his actor son Ritiesh and the Bollywood director Ram Gopal Varma on a tour of the gutted Taj, and Deputy Chief Minister R.R. Patil, who resigned after he was quoted saying, "Small things do happen in big cities. They wanted to kill 5,000 people; we have minimized the damage...
...Pakistan. Lines of well-wishers snaked by the windows of police vans to shake the hands of the security personnel inside. Men with guns seemed far more popular than those with electoral mandates, though many in the crowd did not favor war. "We want real action," says Radikha Varma, a schoolteacher. "But there are good people on both sides of the border. The same thing that happened here should not be happening there either...
...Gautam Varma was ready to take the next step. With a degree in computer engineering from Purdue University and a few years working for Motorola in Chicago, Varma, 27, felt a stint in grad school would help him move up into management. So last year he applied to a couple of U.S. schools and to the Indian School of Business (ISB), a six-year-old institution in the southern city of Hyderabad that has academic ties to Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the London Business School. He was thrilled...
...company's 1996 production of the Miss World beauty pageant was plagued by protests from both Indian conservatives and feminists. By the turn of the millennium, Bachchan found himself $20 million in debt and staring obscurity in the face. "The industry thought he was finished," says Ram Gopal Varma, director of Bachchan's latest hit, Sarkar. So did Bachchan. "Every actor has to reconcile himself to the day when he is ignored," he tells TIME. "And that's what I began...