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Global art: Of catastrophes, redemptive gestures
Documenta 11, the latest edition of the legendary show of international contemporary art may be seen as a heroic, but flawed, attempt as an encyclopaedic register. For here is presented the effect of the flows of globalisation in specific, local situations, their material impact and the imaginaries they generate. Thus, even the most abstract of the 415 art-works — that bear a visceral relationship to the hopes and terrors of the subaltern and the marginalised everywhere — are deeply coloured by political preoccupations, concludes RANJIT HOSKOTE.

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FOCUS
New values in intellectual properties
Is there a connection between cultural factors, economic development and intellectual property rights? ... wonders S. MOHAN.

Focus

NOSTALGIA
Imagined Colombo
Where should INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM locate himself to give you a bird's eye view of his beloved city?

ISSUES

Cutting across barriers
The spread of AIDS is not confined to an unknown high-risk group. The need to increase awareness levels of this dreaded disease is the first step in fighting it, says LILY VENKATARANGAM on the occasion of World Aids Day on December 1.

Columns

LOOSE CANON By Rukun Advani Between the lines		PAST & PRESENT By Ramachandra Guha Nirad Chaudhuri's Nehru

THE SHASHI THAROOR COLUMN Unsparing details		MEDIA MATTERS By Sevanti Ninan Dumping the saas and bahu

BOOK TALK By David Davidar A novel of ideas		SLICE OF LIFE By V. Gangadhar It's a rich man's world

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People

IN CONVERSATION
'A well-meaning leftie'
BILL KIRKMAN talks to Sydney Bolt, who was part of the British initiative to woo the communists in India during World War II.

Lifestyle

THEATRE

Reinterpreting an epic
The Ramayana has been transplanted to, among others, the countries of South East Asia; assimilated and transformed according to local history and geography and providing the impetus for the creation of masterpieces of art. GEETA DOCTOR reviews `Realizing Rama', a collaborative venture involving ASEAN's 10 member countries.

CULTURE

Put on your dancing shoes
Not a grandiose mission statement but a close look at the nuts and bolts of the creative process. This is what ARUNDHATI SUBRAMANIAM saw at a dance workshop conducted by German dancer Susanne Linke in Mumbai.

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REVIEW

Coming up trumps against cancer
THE first thing that strikes one on seeing the book is "How can anyone call a book The Joy of Cancer?" But as you read Anup Kumar's first person account of his battle with the Big C, you begin to understand. Kumar not only found joy in ...

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