At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. In New York, British director Peter Brook's nine-hour production of an ancient Hindu epic poem, The Mahabharata, has lately been playing to packed houses and considerable critical praise. ... Though ruthless, the Moguls had cultivated tastes, especially for Persianstyle gardens, poems and miniatures. ... The day's work was generally confined to the hours betw...

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