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Kakuzo Okakura, a Japanese artist and a militant proponent of pan- Asian ideology, arrives in Calcutta as a guest of Surendranath Tagore. His ideas influence the Bengal School of Painting and are given a nationalist gloss by Sister Nivedita. The first Indian to record a song on gramaphone disc is Sashi Muskhi of Classic Theatres, Calcutta.
J.F.Madan launces his bioscope show in a tent on Calcutta's Maidan, a foundation of a massive exhibition and distribution empire which dominated silent Indian, Burmese and Sri Lankan cinemas.
September 1902. "the whole of the Madras-bombay train was wrecked at Cudappa" entry in Raja Raja Varma's diary [1]
Fred Gaisberg of the Gramaphone and Typewriter Ltd.(check) travels to India to make more Indian recordings and to try and set up some kind of infrastructure for the marketing of recorded music in India.
