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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 find out what kind of market is available for this technology.
