Editor ContentsVISUAL ARTS 5 • Viewer's View: Looking at PicturesGulam mohammed SheikhDANCE 21 • The Dance in India Rajika PuriFILM 33 • Gandhiana and Gandhiology Ashish Rajadhyaksha43 • Myth and Ritual: Ghatak's Meghe Dhaka Tarn Ira BhaskarREVIEW 51 • A Statement of Bias Jasodhara Bagchi63 • The fantastic as Verbal Fabrication Ahk Bhalla67 • Nukkad Rang Mela Madhava PrasadFront cover: Bishan Das Detail from Shaikh PhutBack cover: Binode Behari Mukherjee Detail, from Medieval Saints^ARTS^DEASApril-June 1983 • Number 3 G.P. DeshpandeManaging Editor & Treasurer Romi Khosia Associate Editors Vivan Sundaram Indira Chandrashekhar Chanchal ChauhanContributing Editors Prasanna Theatre Geeta Kapur Visual ArtsMalini Bhattacharya Literature Neela Khopkar MUJIC Anil Bhatti Booic ReviewsAdvisory Editors Saeed Akhtar Mirza Mihir Bhattacharya M.S. Sathyu Sudhir Patwardhan Kalpana SahniP.Govmda Pillai PrabhakarSubscriptions Individual Rs 25.00/annum* Institutions & Libraries Rs 40.OO/annum* *Rs 4.00 banking Charges if by chequeContact: Subscription Manager Journal of Arts & Ideas 78-G Sujan Singh Park New Delhi 110003 Printed and published by G.P. Deshpande at the Manohar Act Press, Delhi