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during the Renaissance? What kind of music did Bach, Handel and Vivaldi compose during the Baroque period? When was opera as a musical
composition born... | | |  | WIT AND HUMOUR By Mushirul Hasan Wit and Humour in Colonial North India: In today’s world, cartooning is becoming a contentious issue, unfortunately perceived as a deliberate attempt at demonising the ‘other’. This was not so in late 19th-century colonial India, when a fine cartoonist could summarise a welter of perspectives; The Avadh Punch... | | |
