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smaller groups and solo performers took centre stage

Short piece from 2007 with film critic Molly Haskell

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World Florence & The Machine and otherworldly creatures torment theIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight