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		<title>The Buck Stops Here !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sumathi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A popular Australian channel in Sydney in one of its featured programmes did a segment on Indian Dance. The only recommendation they could provide its millions of viewers is of a particularly westernised bollywood dance school. Whilst there is nothing wrong per se with bollywood dancing, what makes me turn your toes, purse your lips and flare my nostrils with an increasing annoying feeling is this careless portrayal of Indianism and Indian Music and Dance. There are today numerous qualified well talented and dedicated Bharathanatyam, Kathak, Odissi, Kathakali dancing schools and  Carnatic, Hindustani, Instrumental music Schools in Australia.  There are visiting professors, talented musicians who are willing to offer their esteemed services at very nominal amounts to come to Australia to educate, perform, upskill, develop better understanding of the Indian Arts which receives no main stream media recognition, bar a few sparsely sponsored programmes, if at all.      Well I think the Buck stops here.  What is holding us back ? Why do we want to continue to keep our classical arts in ghettos and closed corners ? At the expense of sounding arrogant which I have been criticised for, this cloak of humility and humbleness gets us no where. [...]]]></description>
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