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                – a colossal ignorance and only a moderate inquisitiveness. It is
                a miracle that Pather Panchali is doing so well at the box office.
                The notions about Japan are equally nebulous, and this airing of
                ideas about Kabuki etc., is just sheer pretence. The East is still as
                far away from the West as it has ever been ... ’






























































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