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Gautam
Mukherjee: MBA
IIM Calcutta, Entrepreneur, Teacher, Ecologist, |
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Music & Sports
aficionado, Photographer and Lover of Life. Always |
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searching for
truths on “Who are we” and “Where have we come from” |
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through the consilience
of all knowledge. A gentle, humorous Madcap? |
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prologue |
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welcome |
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history |
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sexuality |
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social
landscapes |
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art |
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dance |
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History
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Lakshmi
Subramanian, the
product of a mix of cultural childhood - |
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a Tamil living
in Calcutta and thereby truly bengalicised, attending English |
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medium schools
and University and broiled in a number of vats in England |
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and Australia and
matured by 20 years of relentless teaching and writing. |
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literature
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music |
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cinema |
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environment
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economics |
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pot
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Society
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Sudhir
Kakar is a psychoanalyst
who has written extensively on the |
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Indian psyche.
In his spare time, which is now becoming his main interest, |
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he is also a novelist.
He’s fond of music and good food and a friend of life |
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and love. |
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Social
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Samita
Sen, Historian,
Feminist, Teacher, Activist and Researcher. A |
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Presidency
College, Calcutta University product with a Cambridge |
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doctorate
topping. Nurturing, predictably, a serious weakness for Tagore |
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Rabindrasangeet. Yet always a little out of place. Always on the look |
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out
for new and different ideas. A little bad, greatly mad but never too |
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ugly. |
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Art,
Sculpture & Architecture |
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Sudha
Seshadri
is post graduate in Microbiology whose love for India and |
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art and culture came to the fore while working with Marg Publications. |
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After
over twenty years of editing and reading on various aspects of |
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Indian
art she still finds awe, inspiration, beauty, passion and poetry in |
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the
heritage of the sub continent. To her India is like the tree of life
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getting
to know her is magic. |
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Dance |
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Ashish
Khokar's genes
are infused with blood of Bharatanatyam married to |
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courtly etiquettes
of Kathak. Sired by pioneer dance scholar Mohan Khokar |
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and born to veteran
dancer M.K.Saroja, he was exposed to dance early on. |
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As an Arts-Administrator
he handled Festivals of India in France, Sweden, |
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Germany and China.
While he is considered an important voice in dance, he |
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considers dance
to be more important. He is responsible now for India's |
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largest dance collection
created by his father. |
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Literature
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Gautam
Mukherjee: MBA
IIM Calcutta, Entrepreneur, Teacher, Ecologist, |
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Music & Sports
aficionado, Photographer and Lover of Life. Always searching |
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for truths on “Who
are we” and “Where have we come from” through the |
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consilience of
all knowledge. A gentle, humorous Madcap? |
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Music |
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Sushweta
Chakraborty |
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Cinema |
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Bhaskar
Ghose was in Civil
Service for 36 years doing a variety of jobs, but |
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heart was always in the theater and in watching films of all kinds.
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directed
and acted in over 45 plays and has scripted and presented a television
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show
on films for the last four years. At the moment he's planning on directing
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another
play, seeing as many films as he can, helping set up the School for
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Creative
Arts and Aesthetics in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and teaching
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a course
on The International Media Scenario at Lady Shriram College, |
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New
Delhi. In short, he's enjoying himself. |
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Environment
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Darryl
D'Monte is either
described as a journalist or an environmentalist, but |
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prefers to think
of himself as an environmental journalist. He was Resident |
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Editor of the
"Indian Express" and "The Times of India" in Mumbai. He heads |
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the Forum of Environmental
Journalists of India and is President of the |
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International
Federation of Environmental Journalists. He is often genuinely |
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confused as to
whether to support people's causes or preserve the natural |
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environment and
is generally caught in between. |
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Economics
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Gautam
Mukherjee: MBA
IIM Calcutta, Entrepreneur, Teacher, Ecologist, |
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Music & Sports
aficionado, Photographer and Lover of Life. Always searching |
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for truths on “Who
are we” and “Where have we come from” through the |
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for truths on “Who
are we” and “Where have we come from” through the |
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consilience of
all knowledge. A gentle, humorous Madcap? |
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Pot
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Book Reviews,
Sports, Travel (Wild Options), Fashion, Cuisine, |
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Tribal Ethnicity
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Graphics |
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Almas
Hussain: BA English Hons., Calcutta University with
20 years graphic |
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and creative work
for the advertising industry. Now running her own Design |
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Studio. Black sheep
of her family but loved intensely by all. Enjoys good |
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food, good movies,
good books and all that’s wild and wonderful. |
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