In metro India, where is leisure time – of a nice walkthrough park – acres of well-kept greenery and elegant buildings? In the heart of Delhi, there’s the Lodhi Garden then there’s the Sundar Nursery. Bangalore has Cubbon Park and Lalbagh; Bombay has Hanging Gardens and Borivali National Park; Chennai, the beach and Kolkata, the […]Read More
Leave it to our artistes (performing) or artists (plastic) to live up to the demands of times. Through their art works, they try make a statement, reach out and bring ordinary concepts centre stage. Sonal Mansingh did that at HABITAT with Karmayogi, which profiles the PM without even once showing his photo on stage. This […]Read More
In last column, I had focused on symbols in Indian culture. What is India’s one symbol that is pan Indian. It is Nataraja now. No wonder when the mandarins of ministry of culture thought what to put in front of spaceship called Bharat Mandapam they first thought of some sculpture. Then the idea of pancha […]Read More
Shirdi Maharaj of Dwarka Mai (that’s the first SM of DM) or Sai Baba as he is universally called. In 50 years, his popularity has increased manifold, making Shirdi the second most important and frequented pilgrimage place of India, the first being Tirumala-Tirupati. A small hamlet, in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, Shirdi was hardly known […]Read More
Team L&M Prabha Khaitan Foundation, in collaboration with Bharatiya Jnanpith, launched the Hindi translation of historian Dr Vikram Sampath’s book on legendary singer Gauhar Jaan, My Name is Gauhar Jaan. Titled Mera Naam Gauhar Jaan Hai, the book was unveiled by dance exponent Padma Vibhushan Sonal Mansingh, Padma Bhushan Pt Sajan Mishra and Padma Shri […]Read More
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