Editor 15152739 5169 8189 97109 Jot Contents• Introduction : The Ends of the Ladder Leading to the Future Rest on the PastKalpana Sahni• From the Aiil to the Cosmos : An Interview with Chingiz AitmatovKalpana Sahni• On the Staging ofThe Ascent of FujiyamaPrasanna• Shakespeare in the Productions of Sturua and Chkheidze^yacheslav Ivanov• Those Who Left the Festivities : Georgian Cinema TodayV. Dem'm• 'Contemporary Art is Devoid of a Spiritual Basis9: An Interview with Tarkovsky • The SacrificeAndrei Tarkovsky• The Armenian Museum of EthnographyLevon Babayan• Reconstruction of VilnyusR. Kaminkas & Yalovetskas• Historical Poetics of Epos and Romance ; East and WestEleazar Meletinsky• Western Interpretations of BakhtinRashmi Doraiswamy G.P. DcshpandeManaging Editor d Treasurer Romi Khosia Associate Editors Vivan Sundaram Kumkum SangariContributing Editors Prasanna Theatre Geeta Kapur Visual Arts Malini Bhattacharya Literature Neela Khopkar Munc Ashish Rajadhyaksha Fi/mf Anil Bhatti &wJ(r ReviewsAdvisory Editors Saeed Akhtar Mirza Mihir Bhattacharya M.S. Sathyu Sudhir Patwardhan Kalpana Sahni P. Govinda Pillai M.S. Prabhakar Asad Zaidi Madan Gopal Singh Rajcndra Prasad Anuradha Kapur Arun Khopkar Chanchal Chauhan Indira ChandrashckharSubscriptions Individual Rs. 25.00/annum9Institutions & Libraries Rs. 40.00/annum °Rs. 4.00 hanking charges if by chequeContact: Subscription Manager Journal of Arts & Ideas 78-G Sujan Singh Park New Delhi-110 003 Printed and Published by G.P. Deshpande at Paul's Press.PhOtotypeset by Progressive Printers C-52-53, DDA Sheds Phase-1, Okhia Ind. Area New Delhi-110 020 ^ARTS^DEASNUMBERS 12-13 January-June 1987