Tags : Mohan Khokar

ASHISH KHOKAR HERITAGE & CULTURE

Bhavanjali

Today is the 15th. Of June. On the 15th of May, Vidisha ki Vidhushi Malti Joshi, veteran writer and poetess popularly also known  as Malwa ki Meera,  passed away after a period of illness. Her eyes  saw much in the almost 90 years she was on planet earth and her smile said it all. Vidushi Malti […]Read More

ASHISH KHOKAR HERITAGE & CULTURE

RAJ AND SWARAJ

As Independence Day approaches, I’m reminded of Swaraj is my birthright slogan. Today it has a totally new meaning: I ,me, myself. Tilak, Bal (nothing childish about him) Gangadhar was a Puneite. Well, that’s how we remember him even if he was born in Bombay he was brought up in Pune. Growing up in Punjab […]Read More

ASHISH KHOKAR HERITAGE & CULTURE

Shoonya to Shatabdi

While most things start humbly, some grow to become a banyan tree. “Sitting under a banyan tree, you’d find a Bharatanatyam teacher” my father was told in 1940s, when he asked Ram Gopal group members Mrinalini Sarabhai and MK Saroja where to learn Bharatanatyam from. They said so because their teacher Vidwan Muthukumaran Pillai had […]Read More

ASHISH KHOKAR HERITAGE & CULTURE

Culture Vulture

This was a term coined in the 1980s and much in vogue. It was meant to describe those who had interest in cultural activities, viz. organisers, sponsors, patrons or performers. I even had a column going by the same title, in a popular Delhi city magazine called First City, run by a debonair Bharat Kapoor. […]Read More

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