Rationalists say it's a reflection of West Bengal state's rich literary traditions, imagination and love of storytelling.
Pierre Boulez's Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) in Paris, the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and innumerable other artistic and academic centers have carried on the tradition with vigor and imagination.
Part of the festival activities included selecting a queen and her court, a tradition that captured the imagination of the public and which quickly dominated the annual trade fairs.
But its rich aesthetic traditions have captured the imagination of scholars and curators around the world.
But what would be helpful are school administrators who will break with tradition and bring more flexibility, imagination and social purpose to our high school curriculums.
Like the lines that trace our faces as time progresses, these include impressions of his time visiting what he regards a country at once proud in tradition and somewhat magical in imagination.
An astonishing draftsman, he drew from nature, the imagination, or classical tradition as he searched for a distinctive style.
Where there were gaps in the historical record, artists often used their imagination to reinvent traditions.
But Ms. Durrani, above, who grew up in Kashmir, found that India's traditions held sway over her imagination.
Astonishingly innovative new buildings — be they public or private, large or small, located in cities or the provinces — have sprung up across the country, unraveling, at least in part, the very fabric of the tradition-bound Spain of collective imagination.
