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The Karanth case

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                                    NK SINGH The dramatic arrest of the prominent 57-year-old theatre director, B. V. Karanth on a charge of attempting to burn to death Vibha Mishra, the pretty 27-year-old heroine of his drama troupe at Bhopal last week has rocked the world of art. He had joined Bharat Bhavan, the lake-side House of Arts' at Bhopal, four years ago.  Although Karanth has dabbled in films and produced nationally-acclaimed works like "Chomana Duddi" and "Kedu", he is better known as a theatre director and playwright. A diploma-holder from the National School of Drama, Delhi, and the Asian Theatre Institute, he started his career with the famous "Gubbi" company in his native Karnataka. He has directed world classics not only in, Kannada and Hindi, but also in Punjabi, Gujarati and Sanskrit. He was director of the prestigious National School of Drama from 1977 to 1981 when he was p...
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Prices rise in Bhopal: Wheat @Rs 1.20 kg

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NK SINGH Perhaps never since the Second World War, the extraоdinary 'slack' year of 1966-67 interluding in-between, the prices had gone up so rapidly in the history of Bhopal as in the year 1973. The consumers' price index for Bhopal, which went up from 100 in 1960 (base year) to 199 in 1972, showed a startling rising tendency this year. It shot from 212 in January to 257 in October, and if the persistent trend is any indication, it must have galloped to 270 by now, a rise of about 60 points. Prices of all the essential commodities, especially cereals, pulses, edible oils condiments and spices, showed an alarming increase, most of them shooting up by 50 to 60 per cent as compared to the previous year. Fuel touched an all-time high, and firewood went up by as much as from Rs. 10 to about Rs. 22 per quintal.  Scarcity On top of all this, there was a persistent scarcity of many essential commodities throughout the year. baby food, ghee, Bread, suji and maida were not available...
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