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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

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Corrections and clarifications

In the AP report "Bollywood dream-come-true" ("Newscape", May 23, 2006), a reader thought that Rs.60, as the text said, was too low an amount to have been collected for making the low-budget movie "Ishq na Karna". He is right, and it was because of an editing error. The amount raised for the venture by the 150 autorickshaw driver friends of Waqar Khan, the autorickshaw driver-turned filmmaker, was Rs. 60 lakh.

The musical composition "Kaana kan kodi vendum" was popularised by Madurai Mani Iyer, but was not composed by him, as mentioned in the review of the book "Kapaliswara Temple — The Sacred Site of Mylapore" ("Book Review — History and Heritage of a Famous Landmark", May 23, 2006). This famous composition was by Papanasam Sivan whom musicologist Ranga Ramanuja Ayyangar described as Abhinava Tyagaraja in his book "History of Carnatic Music".

The photo caption in "Brazil stands tall in Group F" ("Sport", May 20, 2006), made it appear that Carlos Alberto Parreira was the coach of the Brazilian football team that won the World Cup in 2002. This is incorrect as the coach of Brazil then was Luiz Felipe Scolari, who is currently coaching Portugal. Carlos Alberto Parreira was in charge of the Brazilian team that won the World Cup in 1994, a reader says. The Sports Desk clarifies that the caption was so worded only to make a statement of the fact that Parreira is a World Cup winning coach (in 1994, as the reader has pointed out) and wants to see a repeat of the final.

In the report "Yet another successful chase by India" ("Sport", May 20, 2006), the last line was: "Graeme Smith's 103 for South Africa versus West Indies last year was the only overseas centurion at this venue [Kingston] before Dravid." A reader says that the usage is incorrect as a "centurion" is a person, and not a score. Since the subject of the sentence was the score and not the player, the word should have been "century".

With reference to the clarification on Rabindranath Tagore's date of birth ("Corrections and Clarifications", May 16, 2006), a reader says that Tagore was born on Baisakh 25 (the first month of the Bengali calendar) of the Bengali year 1268 (B.S.). The date corresponds to May 7, 1861. As his birth anniversary is always celebrated according to the Bengali calendar, Baisakh 25 does not correspond to May 7 every year. For example, his 70th birthday was observed on May 8, 1931, and on this occasion was published "The Golden Book of Tagore", a global anthology sponsored, among others, by Gandhiji, Romain Rolland and Einstein. The 145th birthday fell on May 9 this year. He died on Shravan 22 (the fourth month of the Bengali year), 1348 B.S., i.e. August 7, 1941. His death anniversary is always observed on Shravan 22. The problem arises as Indian birthdays are celebrated by some according to the person's birth star, or by some according to the local calendar.

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