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Photographs: From cover-courtesy Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad. 1 top-R.K. Sharma; bottomAvinash Pasricha. 2-from Recent·American Works on Paper exhibit at the Sixth Triennale India. 1986, New Delhi. 4-Nand Katya!. 5 top-Painting by Sean O'Sullivan: bottom-courtesy Yale University. 6-7. 10-Bruce McAllister. 11 top center-Brown Brothers; top rightSears Roebuck & Co.; bottom right-Control Data Corp. 14- 15Barry Fitzgerald. 16-Jim McHugh. 17 left-Steve Liss; rightChristopher Little. 18-Thomas S. England. 19 top-Susan T. McElhioney; bottom- Dao Miller. 16- 19-All pictures from People Week/vi ©Time. Inc. 20-Brahmanand Chary. 21, 24-25-courtcsy Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad. 22-Tbe Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase. Lila Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, in honor of Cynthia Hazen and Leon Bernard Polsky. 23 top center-Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan from a private collection; bonom-Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan from Mebningarh Museum Trust. Fort. Jodhpur, on loan from His Highness Mahara1a Sri Gaj Singh 11 of Jodhpur. 26 left-Juan Hamilton. 28-courtesy Colorado State University, Fluid Mechanics and Wind Engineenng Program. 31- Arlene Scadron. 35- Avinash Pasricha. 38-40- courtesy Young Ambassadors. Brigham Young Univeristy. 42-43-Clyde H. Smith. 46 left-© Tom Brazil: right- Nick Sidle. both courtesy V.R. Dcvika. Inside back cover top and center- Pete Souza. The White House. Back cover- The White House.
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Front cover: "Krishna Lifts Mount Govardhan"- th1s early 18th-century painting on collon was on display at the recent New York exhibition .. India'"· It iio from the Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art in Hyderabad. See pages 20-25. Back cover: An orphan in the Fostc:r Grandparents Program in Washington, D.C., gets a hug from Nancy Reagan. one of the project'\ moM enthusiastic supporters. See also inside back cover.