Base Notes by Shanta Serbjeet Singh - Sangeet Natak Akademi’s New General Council

By the time this edition of Base Notes is up, the new Governing Council of the national Sangeet Natak Akademi would have been constituted and functioning.  Delhi know-alls are many.  Many more are the conjecture specialists and the culture forecasters.  First, for months, one has heard of all manner of names being floated around as the new Chairman of the Akademi.  The punter’s favourite horse, or in this case, mostly mares, were supposed to come straight from the ‘horse’s mouth.’   But I have always wondered who that great oracular horse must have been who started this adage!  And what did he forecast about!

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