Posted in Activities, Cultural, Indian History, Kolkata, News and Views, Observation, tagged Bengali Art, Indian Painters, Kolkata, Oil Painting, Portrait of President of India, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Water Color, Young Painter of Bengal on 7 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
“In the silence of the night when I take a break from my work, and sit alone in the balcony, I see a young boy with a bag on his shoulder and a drawing board in his hand. Black clouds cover the sky while people take shelter from the rain, but the boy sits on [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Delhi, Indian History, Interesting, News and Views, Society, Travel, Writing, tagged Author, British School, City of Djinns, Fiction, India, Jaunapur, Mother Teresa, Olivia, The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple on 31 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
William Dalrymple’s love for India is not unknown. He has penned six books, of which five have embraced Indian life as their storyline and have been award winning. India has sewn itself into his life since long now with him spending a lot of time in New Delhi India apart from London and Edinburgh.
However, [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Indian History, Interesting, Movies, Mumbai, News and Views, tagged Ameen Sayani, director Shakti Samanta, Indian Cinema, Indian Post, Kiran Shantaram, Madhubala, Madhubhushan, Magic of Films, Mahafilmpex, Manoj Kumar, Mumbai, Nargis, News, Shashikala, Stamps on 19 March 2008 | No Comments »
Venus of the Indian screen Madhubala is honored by Indian Postal Service: on 18 March 2008 a stamp was released in her memory. After Nargis, Madhubala is the second Indian actress to have a stamp released in her honor.
The Indian Postal Service organized a special two-day event in Mumbai on Indian cinema titled Magic of [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, Fiction, From Headlines, From the Past, General, Indian History, Movies, News and Views, Stories and Experiences, tagged Albert Roussel, Art, Ballet, Brazil, Culture, Devdas, France, French, French Music, History, India, Italy, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Media, Movies, Music, News, Opera, Padmavati, Paris, Ranbir, Saawariya, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Sonam Kapoor, Standing Ovation, Theatre du Chatelet on 18 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sanjay Leela Bhansali of Devdas fame got standing ovation at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. Not for another Bollywood movie, but for an opera-ballet titled Padmavati: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s adaptation of the 1923 opera-ballet by Albert Roussel, one of the greatest yet least understood masters of twentieth-century French music.
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Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, General, Indian History, Movie Reviews, Movies, Observation, Seriously!, tagged Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Entertainment, History, Hrithik Roshan, Humor, Jodha Akbar, Jodha Bai, Marriage, Movie Review, Rajasthan, Rajput, Relationships on 24 February 2008 | No Comments »
If Emperor Akbar were to watch Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar, he would have said, “Wow man! What opulence, very impressive indeed.” And if Jodhaa and Akbar were to watch Jodhaa Akbar together, they would have definitely fallen in love with each other even if they did not back then. Jodhaa Bai would have told Jodhaa [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, Humor, In My Experience, Indian History, Observation, Relation, Society, Stories and Experiences, tagged Indian Men, Romance, Valentine's Day on 13 February 2008 | 30 Comments »
You like it or not, Valentine’s Day is upon us. It is a recent import: came in the same box with McDonald and outsourcing - accidentally. Like most invasive imported species, it is thriving in the new land, surpassing its success in the native land. That is not a surprise. There was a saying in [...]
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