Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Asian Art, on the verge
Although art in this part of the world originated in private patronage and religion and forms a vital part of each country's living traditions, today as Asian nations rethink their place in the post-Cold war world ideological changes are pushing artists and intellectuals on to the centrestage of progressiveness.
Beat stress via music, say experts
So soulful were the legendary Tansen's renditions that it is said when he sang the rain gods would oblige and the lamps would light up. While modern day musicians have yet to equal that feat, researchers claim that music improves healing by helping the body overcome stress to a great extent.
Navigating a new icon
Shehbaz Safrani is a scholar-painter, who won the coveted Premio Minerva gold medal awarded by the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome in 1966. Pheroza Godrej talks about Shehbaz Safrani's quality of being able to merge the past with the present -- in a language of his own.
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