The Hindu :Sunday, February 09, 2003

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Confronting violence: Bridging the sacred-secular divide
Violence, by definition, signals the loss, lapse and negation of a spiritual way of being. This is because a spiritual stance requires us to pose every question in relation to ourselves. Looking at whether there are aspects of our selves of which we are ashamed, and toward which we are, in small and not-so-small ways, violent, LATA MANI hopes that the horror of the present times in India will impel us to bridge the sacred-secular divide, for challenging the mirage of otherness that threatens to undermine our commonality and shared destiny.

Columns

FIRST STRIKE
By Anil Dharker
Official birthdays RIPPLE EFFECTS
By Ranjit Hoskote
Honouring the bookman

THE OTHER HALF
By Kalpana Sharma
She ignited aspirations AGAINST THE GRAIN
By C. Rammanohar Reddy
Why I won't be watching the World Cup

CAMBRIDGE LETTER
By Bill Kirkman
Ammunition to the cynics SLICE OF LIFE
By V. Gangadhar
Cheerful till the end

ROUNDABOUT
Escape into tomorrow HEALTH ALPHABET
Minor complication

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TRIBUTE
Symbol of pride
From childhood, her dream was to fly high. Remembering Kalpana Chawla.

Lifestyle

HERITAGE

Splendour in metal
`The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India' is the first exhibition of its kind in the U.S. that centres upon examples gathered from public museums and private collections in America and Europe. S. RANGARAJAN on the on-going show at the Smithsonian, Washington.

CULTURE

Crafting a way of life
Export figures for Indian handicrafts are rising but craftspersons are at the crossroads, beset with poverty and illness. Their knowledge is in danger of dying with them. PUSHPA CHARI recounts what the 10 mastercraftspersons, honoured with the award of Shilpa Guru recently, had to say.

IMAGES

Voice from the past
An exhibition of Anne Frank's diary and photographs travels across Indian cities trying to share the Holocaust experience — of extreme nationalism, persecution and destruction — with a multicultural society in India, writes ROMAIN MAITRA.

THEATRE

An opera comes alive
An opera rediscovered by chance, `The Fakir of Benaras' is not just a simple love story but has hidden depths that thrill the viewer, writes UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA.

CUISINE

Festive treats
EID-UL-ZUHA, also called Bakrid is a festival of rejoicing. Bakrid is also a day for feasting and visiting friends to say Eid Mubarak. Here are a few recipes: Stuffed bread

Ingredients: Round loaf bread (unsliced) ...

GARDENING

Edible and medicinal
HERE are two specimens from the plant kingdom that are useful to man in many ways. The first, Musa, is what produces our edible banana. These evergreen giant herbs spring from rhizomes, flower, fruit and die and then regrow from a sucker. The ...

Health

Operation needed?
Our panel of doctors offers advice and guidance on issues concerning mental health.

Books

REVIEW

An enduring diplomat
Historians will have to search through the events of the 1990s to understand how the many significant changes in India's worldview were engineered. This volume will be one of the main sources to assess that transformation, writes C. RAJA MOHAN.

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