SHAH ALAM - Polis menahan 15 individu termasuk empat pelajar selepas dipercayai mengadakan ‘private party’ dalam serbuan di sebuah unit kondominium di Seksyen 7 di sini pada Sabtu. Ketua Polis Daerah Shah Alam, Asisten Komisioner Baharudin Mat Taib berkata, serbuan pada jam 1.30 pagi itu dijalankan selepas polis menerima aduan orang awam.
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Too many movies feel like they were written by guidance counselors. “Believe in yourself, and you can do anything,” they insist, cheerleading for aspiring artists, athletes, and astronauts. But what if what you want to do with your life is notoriously difficult? And what if you’re just not that great at it?
The Disciple, a wry and perceptive new drama from the Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane, shows what following your dreams looks like when those dreams are lofty on an almost historical scale. It could just as easily be called
The Discipline, for how rigorously it privileges the Sisyphean
Listening to the world: Amit Chaudhuri’s book argues that classical Hindustani music is modernist
Poet and writer Ashok Vajpeyi’s reads ‘Finding the Raga’. Amit Chaudhuri performing in 2020.
The new book of prose by the well-known fiction writer Amit Chaudhuri is described by him as “a narrative but not a story, a series of opening paragraphs, where life is about to happen”. It has autobiographical details including those of initiation into music, and Hindustani classical music, insights into many aspects and history of that music, a narrative of its teachers as Amit found and learnt from them.
Chaudhuri discovers that “The classic occupies a strange place in any culture hovering between authority and illegitimacy receiving both reverence and indifference. In India, the reasons for its questionable status have a complex history.” Not sharing the common assumption about the classical, Chaudhuri finds “that the remarkable creative periods don’t necessari