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From: India Abroad
Date: 20050422
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India Abroad
04-22-2005
In 1983, Salman Rushdie was invited by the British Council to give a talk
at Santiniketan University, near Kolkata. While he was there, Rushdie got a
chance to meet his favorite filmmaker Satyajit Ray, who was filming
Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire (The Home and the World, 1984) in an old
zamindar's home, four hours from Kolkata.

"It was an extraordinary building and very evocative of a lost life,"
Rushdie said recently, as he introduced the late Bengali director's film at
the opening of the Masters of Indian Cinema film festival at New York
City's ImaginAsian theater.

The ...

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