{"id":17899,"date":"2011-10-29T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.tehelka.com\/?p=17899"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T12:59:50","slug":"master-takes-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/master-takes-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Master takes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compiled by\u00a0Aradhna Wal<\/strong>
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\"Greek<\/a>
Greek odds<\/strong>
An artwork by Surendran Nair<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nYamini Telkar on Art<\/strong>
\nI would recommend the works of\u00a0Surendran Nair,<\/strong>\u00a0a preeminent contemporary Indian artist. His works are witty, sarcastic yet strongly appealing. Though his titles hark back to classical Greek mythology, his paintings explore the individual and the society in India. They are strongly rooted in, and flavoured by, local culture. The beauty of his work, however, lies in his renegotiation with the Indian imagery. His canvas always surprises the viewer and the critic by telling an old story in a brand new way.
\nTelkar<\/strong>\u00a0is the curator of the Delhi Art Gallery<\/em>
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\n\"\"<\/a>Jaishree Misra on Books\u00a0<\/strong>
\nOne Day <\/em>by\u00a0David Nicholls<\/strong>\u00a0would have been instantly branded \u2018chick-lit\u2019, had it been written by a, er, chick. But Nicholls presents a potted social history of Britain from the late \u201980s onwards. Em and Dex meet on the last day of university before going their separate ways. The reader watches the progress of their lives on the 15th of July for the next 20 years.
\nNicholls presents a potted social history of Britain from the late \u201980s onwards<\/strong>
\nMisra<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of Ancient Promises and Rani<\/em>
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\n\"Trendsetter<\/a>Adil Manuel on Music<\/strong>
\nPeople worship rock legends, and rock legends worship\u00a0Allan Holdsworth<\/strong>. The English guitarist and composer sets the trend for other musicians, but he himself can never be copied, especially on stage. He is 65 and the older he gets the crazier his music becomes. I\u2019d recommend easier songs like\u00a0Sand<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Funnels<\/em>, which I myself would like to play someday.
\nManuel<\/strong>\u00a0is a Delhi-based musician with Adil and Vasundhara<\/em>
\nTrendsetter<\/strong>
\nEnglish guitarist and composer Allan Holdsworth
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\"Stepping<\/a>
Stepping up
A still from Dancer in the Dark<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nAparna Sanyal on Film\u00a0<\/strong>
\nI remember coaxing my self-confessed Hindi film buff father to watch Lars von Trier<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Dancer in the Dark\u00a0<\/em>years ago. Telling him about von Trier and the Dogme movement wouldn\u2019t have worked. He was also unlikely to be moved by the fact that it won the Palme d\u2019Or in 2000. And so I told him how it was a melodramatic story of a mother\u2019s love for her child, and her fight against all odds to save her son from a \u2018dark\u2019 fate. That it had songs. Dances too! I\u2019m not sure von Trier would have been flattered, but he did end up having an atypical viewer that day!
\nSanyal<\/strong>\u00a0is a filmmaker based in Delhi<\/em>
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\nRachana Desai on Food\u00a0<\/strong>
\nGoa has many places to dine, but my favourite is\u00a0Anand Lunch Home<\/strong>. It is a shack-like restaurant sitting in the middle of some green fields near Anjuna and Vagator beaches. They serve Hindu coastal cuisine, which is very different from the Christian Goan food that we are more familiar with. I had a fish thali, which has a few masala-filled clams, a piece of fried fish, a bowl of coconut fish curry, some vegetables and rice. You could also opt for rawa fried prawns or rawa fried king fish. You don\u2019t need anything else after that. Truly local, unspoilt and fresh, you won\u2019t find any tourists here.<\/p>\n

Desai<\/strong>\u00a0is the partner and Coo of Cafe Zaffiro, New Delhi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Compiled by\u00a0Aradhna Wal Yamini Telkar on Art I would recommend the works of\u00a0Surendran Nair,\u00a0a preeminent contemporary Indian artist. His works are witty, sarcastic yet strongly appealing. Though his titles hark back to classical Greek mythology, his paintings explore the individual and the society in India. They are strongly rooted in, and flavoured by, local culture. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":17906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[7381,7382,7383,7384,7051,5933,7056,7385,7057,7058,7386,7387,7388,7389,7390,7391,7392,7393],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}