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Philip Glass puts Gandhi in the pantheon of God

Alan Oak in Satyagraha by Philip Glass

Legendary composer Philip Glass's universally acclaimed Sanskrit opera Satyagraha is another milestone in Gandhi's global legend. This critically acclaimed opera is creating waves in London. To help the foreign audience, the English translation of Sanskritised libretto appears on the corrugated iron backdrop that is imaginatively used to portray the colonial age as well as the poverty that Gandhi so intentionally embraced. Vijay Rana, the editor of NRIfm  spoke to Alan Oak who gives a flawless performance as  Gandhi who tells the inside story of this great show. Oak also gives a glimpse of his singing in Sanskrit.

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Taj Mahal: The heavenly home of a queen on earth 


Ebba Koch, the professor of Art History at the University of Vienna, has spent more than 30 years studying the palaces of the Mughal king Shah Jahan. She is the first western scholar since India's independence permitted to take measurements of Taj Mahal and surrounding buildings. In her recent book 'The Complete Taj Mahal'  she leads the reader on a walk of the river Yamuna rediscovering palace gardens of imperial family and great nobles that lined both sides of the river. In this most detailed study of Taj Mahal she says that Shah Jahan wanted Taj Mahal to look like his beautiful Queen Mumtaj Mahal's home in paradise. Prof Koch tells the story of her remarkable research.

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