... , elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. Best-selling books like Freedom at Midnight re-create the struggle of two great cultures, mighty opposites with a twinned destiny, as they set about trying to disentangle themselves and ... memsahibs was sadly reflected in the dismissive judgment of one Mrs. Graham, circa 1809, in her Journal of a Residence in India: "These [Indian] people, if they have the virtue...

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