{"id":6601,"date":"2012-01-14T10:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.tehelka.com\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2012-01-14T10:03:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T10:03:26","slug":"master-takes-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/master-takes-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Compiled by\u00a0Aradhna Wal<\/strong>
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\"Grand<\/a>
Grand narratives A painting by Badri Narayan<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSeema Kohli On Art<\/strong>
\nI first came across\u00a0Badri Narayan<\/strong>\u00a0when I was in college. He has often been categorised as an illustrator and a folk artist. However, there is so much more to him. His expression veers more towards a vision. I\u2019d call it painting a vision with some technicalities. There is a lot of himself in his work, which is why people can connect with it. It\u2019s a wonderful narrative. He once said that his wish to paint incorporated the urge for imagining, for dreaming, for going beyond the fact of surface reality for receiving occult intimations. I paraphrase, of course. However, that best describes how his painting is a communion between work and himself.
\nKohli <\/strong>is\u00a0a Delhi-based artist<\/em>
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\n\"\"<\/a>Joshua Newtonn On Books<\/strong>
\n<\/em>If you\u2019re a writer dashing out of a building on fire, save\u00a0Stephen Koch\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0The Modern Library Writer\u2019s Workshop: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction<\/em>. Koch erases your fears by asking you to go ahead and write a \u201cshitty draft\u201d. That really sets you off. He knows your worries, escape routes and embarrassments. He serves delicious solutions for most of your writerly hiccups.
\n\u2018The book has solutions for most writ erly worries, fears and escape routes\u2019<\/strong>
\nNewtonn<\/strong>\u00a0is a Kochi-based writer<\/em>
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\"The<\/a>
The man on the moon Neil Young<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSumit Sharma On Music<\/strong>
\nNeil Young is popularly known as an electric\/grunge guitarist. However, the album I\u2019ve been listening to,\u00a0Harvest Moon,<\/em>\u00a0is largely acoustic, with hardly an electric guitar. Despite that, it has an extremely strong character. There is a lot of symbolism, and it sounds like his own personal album full of private emotions. It\u2019s not made for the market.
\nSharma<\/strong>\u00a0is the rhythm guitarist of Heavens Down<\/em>
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\"Mythical<\/a>
Mythical mad men A still from Om-Dar-Ba-Dar<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nPankaj Butalia On Film<\/strong>
\nNothing prepared me for the iconoclasm of\u00a0Kamal Swaroop\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Om- Dar-Ba-Dar<\/em>. Ostensibly about Om, a boy from a fictional Rajasthan small town, entering adolescence, the film heads off in multiple directions as dream, fantasy and reality explode simultaneously on the screen and in Om\u2019s head. Myriad images come alive \u2014 the mixed history of cinema stares us in the face \u2014 small-town struggles to take centrestage anticipating a move two decades before its time. The film, defying gravity, holds together in a way Indian films have not been able to.
\nButalia<\/strong>\u00a0is a Delhi-based filmmaker<\/em>
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\nSamir Choudhary On Food<\/strong>
\nMamagoto<\/strong>\u00a0in Delhi\u2019s Khan Market is a must visit. It fulfils three important criteria \u2014 good food, good service and a good location. Unlike a lot of other eateries that Indianise their food, this place serves authentic Japanese cuisine. Customers actually get to learn about what they are eating. The food is light, flavourful and tangy. Try the chicken shumai. The drinks too are fun and innovative. The warm and cosy decor is as interesting as the menu. It is the best place to lounge. The staff is attentive and welcoming. It is expensive, like all other restaurants in Khan Market, but worth at least one visit.<\/p>\n

Choudhary<\/strong>\u00a0is the manager of The Yum Yum Tree, Delhi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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