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Motion Picture Music from India.

World music critic Milo Miles samples film music from India.

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Other segments from the episode on January 26, 1990

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, January 26, 1990: Interview with Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith; Commentary on Indian film music; Interview with Wilbur Zelinsky; Review of Jim Turner's comedy show…
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Expanding Your Idea of Geography.

Geographer Wilbur Zelinsky. Zelinsky is one of five editors who compiled "The Atlas of Pennsylvania," a massive, and beautiful, book of maps depicting hundreds of different facts about one state...everything from where the most dairy cows are, to what the favorite baseball teams are in different counties, to where you can still find Bald Eagles. Zelinsky is a professor of geology at Penn State University.

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Blondie Singh Khan Discusses Bollywood.

Indian filmmaker, Blondie Singh Khan has made his share of popular Indian cinema produced in Bombay called Bollywood. He has taken all the clichés and multiplied them tenfold. He talks about his new film based on the novel by Shashi Tharoor. (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

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Novelist and Peacekeeper Shashi Tharoor

In addition to his literary work, Tharoor also works at the United Nations, and is currently heading up the U.N. peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia. His newest novel, "Show Business" is about the Indian film industry.

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Remembering Satyajit Ray.

Terry talks with film critic Stephen Schiff about the late director Satyajit Ray from India. Ray died yesterday at the age of 70. His work was internationally acclaimed.

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