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Finding peace after troubled exploration
Routes, a Macmillan-British Library publication, reverses the debate about how the West perceives India, and asks the question, 'How does India look at the West?' It translates stories from four south Indian languages to explore this question. T Janakiraman's short story Message shows how India and the West can reach each other through deep classical music experience More
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The warmth of the violin
Yehudi Menuhin was a compassionate political man, relating to issues far removed from his own Western world. He could easily bridge activism with music. Excerpt from Lionel Rolfe's important new book More
Music in the computer age
Menuhin showed the humanity of the wooden violin against the clang of the industrial age and the heartlessness of the computer age. Second part of the book excerpt More
Lonely in LA
Lionel Rolfe talks about how he came to write a history of the Menuhins, and the relevance of leftist thought in an age when huge corporations control our lives More
Cut out the music!
The music industry, rather than clergy or governments, is the biggest censor today. Greed rules, and labels are overanxious not to offend the paying consumer. So they end up stifling music that challenges conventions and seeks to change things. A review of Index on Censorship, a magazine that Mehuhin supported More
A 14th century tome on music
An English translation of Sangitopanishat Saroddhara is out, and it makes accessible information that students of music and cultural history will treasure More
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