An interesting anecdote was narrated to me by a renowned composer in the course of making a documentary on him: "Once, I was engrossed in composing a tune when my watchman came and told me that a...
2018-05-05 15:23:27.0
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The generations of the 1960s-70s were simply enchanted by two names – the voice of Mohammed Rafi, and the musical duo of Shankar-Jaikishan. What was their magic that mesmerised millions of music...
2018-04-28 15:08:51.0
The brainchild of the legendary artist, Suvaprasanna, Arts Acre is a complete minicity for artists and art lovers from India and abroad. Situated in the heart of new town Rajarhat, this...
2018-04-21 14:02:16.0
Towards the end of 1933, a young couple arrived in Bombay carrying two highly acclaimed silent feature films, The Light of Asia and Shiraz, which had earlier been screened across several cities in...
2018-04-14 14:16:22.0
Bombayites were in a festive mood celebrating Christmas. Among the numerous attractions in the Christmas carnival was the Christmas cinema. A man who had just turned forty walked into a cinema hall...
2018-04-07 14:10:53.0
Some events are etched in the inner recesses of one's mind – as if a skilled surgeon has sculpted the brain with a scalpel. It was one of those chilly winter evenings, sometime in the late-eighties,...
2018-03-31 14:05:43.0
After making a couple of documentaries, when the acclaimed painter Maqbool Fida Hussain announced his feature film Gajgamini with Madhuri Dixit, it became big news in Bollywood. But the bigger news...
2018-03-24 15:07:49.0
The legendary artist Kundan Lal Saigal belonged to the first generation of singers. Saigal had the largest fan following across the country and one such ardent fan was a young lad in Khandwa, a small...
2018-03-17 14:37:57.0
The editor of the 'Empire' – an ardently imperialist paper – while writing a foreword to an anthology of her selected essays, best expressed the emotions that Sister Nivedita evoked in all those who...
2018-03-10 14:54:57.0
It appears that Vivekananda had at times remarked to a group of disciples and friends towards the end that 'he counted on Nivedita to arouse political sense among Hindus. He wanted patriotism in...
2018-03-03 14:13:09.0
As a part of her multi-dimensional action, in the later years of her life, till 1911, Nivedita's activities saw a prolific output in terms of talks, interviews and writings, all with the predominant...
2018-02-24 13:44:35.0
Sister Nivedita's gradual identification with Indian conditions and aspirations eventually saw the dissolution of her early aspiration of bringing India and her coloniser together. Her increasing...
2018-02-17 13:50:46.0
