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FANTASY
VISIONS of India |
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Maurice Merlin poses questions of
relationships
through time and space-- though contradictions can also be simply
jumbled
together and celebrated |
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Travel posters offer abstract and
romantic
visions of the classic elephant ride |
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Or there's the idyllic vision of
simple
rural life |
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Another idyllic vision: love
stories enhanced
by their exotic, romanticized setting |
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Rex Werner imagines a sort of
extra-terrestrial
temple (?) visited by faceless figures |
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Nancy Nash launches a tiger into
the midst
of Indian space |
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David Klein provides an
elaborately festive
folk-art elephant |
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Julie Ruff frames the subcontinent
like
a curtain within a scalloped arch |
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"Koringa, la Femme fakir," and
other film
visions |
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India, land of the snake charmer |
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India, land of the elephant |
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An astonishing swan-and-elephant
(and snake) ashtray, designed by Salvador Dali for Air India |
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And there's always the swooningly
(but dangerously)
erotic dancing girl, in all her Orientalized glory |
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Classical dance traditions, now
being revived
and updated, are tourist attractions in their own right |
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For those with different
appetites, there's
India as the land of tea-- and silks |
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Some people will remember
Parcheesi, the
"Game of India"-- *the real game*
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Can anyone ever do anything more
than make
a "zig-zag journey" to India? |
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