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Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving independent state, a pioneering educational centre conceived along Bauhaus lines which emphasised learning by doing and drew such luminaries as John Cage, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Kahn and...

With its lilting grooves and wry lyrics on a perennial hot-button issue, when Sun Ra and his Arkestra recorded 'Nuclear War' in 1982 the bandleader took the cut straight to Columbia Records, thoroughly convinced that he had a hit on his hands. That summer New York City played host to the largest anti-nuclear protest to date and one of...