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Corrections and Clarifications

In "Kalam: End of an era in shehnai music" (August 22, 2006), the sentence was: "The former Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee, described the maestro [Bismillah Khan] as an `unmatched artiste' whose sensitive rendering of the flute lent new dimensions to classical music." As a reader points out, Bismillah Khan played the shehnai and not the flute.

Though the name of the Dokdo islets is spelt variously (most often "Tokdo") in various sources, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Delhi, says the correct name, according to the Government of the Republic of Korea, is "Dokdo."

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