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A life beyond categories perhaps that’s the quintessence of Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan’s trajectory both as a sensitive artist and profound scholar. She has not only questioned, but also defied the mindsets that create those categories, with her multidisciplinary approach. Given her proximity to the stalwarts of the intellectual and cultural arena, i.e. Aruna Asaf Ali, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Rukmini Devi Arundale, Dr. Grace Louise McCann Morley, and many ...
The trademark hat, booming rich baritone, intent smouldering eyes, a towering height, and an imposing presence -only a dramatic description would possibly delineate this versatile painter of sinister strokes, who left a tremendous, hypnotic impact on Indian cinema. Amrish Puri, whose voice could send shivers down your spine, while his antics made you chuckle; his costumes could drive you nuts, and his one-liners ranging from Mogambo khush hua to Dong kabhi wrong ...
It all began on a European tour with her parents, when she performed before the Pope in 1939, and earned his benediction. She was barely seven. Defying age, time and space, she's still dancing in the new millennium. For Vyjayantimala, 'everything begins and ends with dance'. That's the raison d'etre of her very existence. Over these decades, her August audience comprised kings and queens, presidents and prime ministers, the high and mighty. Truly a roving ...
From the setting dusk of the fading royalties of Awadh, where Bibbi was born in 1914, to the glamour and clamour of theatre in Calcutta and films in Bombay! From the eloquent exuberance and die-hard faith underlying the tormented childhood of Akhtari Bai Faizabadi to the rhythms of silence required of the doting Begum of a Kakori Nawab! And her final transformation to an icon of music! Begum Akhtar remains an enigma! No one can answer all those curious posers ...