Thumri queen Girija Devi passes away at 88 Doctors at Kolkata’s BM Birla Nursing Home said she suffered a cardiac arrest. Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled her death, saying the singer’s music appealed across generations and her pioneering efforts to popularise Indian classical music would always be remembered. Devi made her public debut on All India Radio Allahabad in 1949. She was given all three Padma awards – she was […]
For some it was Zanjeer. For a few it, was Deewar, maybe Don. For many, it would be Sholay. For me it was Mohabbatein. No, these are not answers to ‘name your favourite Amitabh Bachchan role’ but a list of his films, which people saw for the first time in a movie hall in South India. Yes, it took me the turn of the millennium to watch Mr Bachchan on the big screen. Forgive me Big […]
Twenty-five years ago, a young musician in then Madras was given the opportunity to create music for Mani Ratnam’s movie Roja. The young boy went on to create some everlasting magic. This young boy is none other than the maestro himself – A.R. Rahman. Having created quite a stir in the south, he ventured into creating music for Hindi movies as well. In 1995 he composed music for a movie […]
“Veteran theatre and film personality Tom Alter on Friday lost his battle against skin cancer at his residence here,” his manager said. He was 67. Tom Alter was battling stage four skin cancer at a Mumbai hospital, where he was admitted earlier in September. He returned home on Thursday and breathed his last on Friday night, the acclaimed actor’s manager Ismail Ansari told IANS. Earlier, Tom Alter’s son Jamie had […]
On Saturday, September 2, BE UNITED LLC organized event of NAVRATRI (literally means “nine nights”), a multi-day Hindu festival celebrated in the autumn every year, with India’s legendry Garba singer Shree Atul Purohit at the National Guard Armory in Morris town and continue to tour 14 different States of America this season. Navratri is observed for different reasons and celebrated differently in various parts of the Indian subcontinent, however, over […]
Popular YouTube star ‘Viva’ Harsha, who rose to popularity with The Viva, a comedy video, has come up with his next video, Drink and Drive, a funny video against drunken driving. But if serious accident happens because of it, DWI Guys serving Albany and nearby areas can be beneficial. Alongside actor Harsha, several YouTube stars including Das Anna feature in the nine-minute video. The video also features actor Sai Dharam Tej. […]
Ten years ago Ramachandra Guha’s landmark text, India after Gandhi, proved that a complete and detailed exploration of India’s post-Independence history could be written in a single volume. Championing Guha’s achievement, The London Review of Books claimed that, prior to India after Gandhi, the best book on the period was ‘a stodgy piece of nationalist-Marxist writing from the rank and file of plodders at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University’. Guha […]
India has vibrant cinematic and literary traditions, but its most compelling stories, messages and performances have come from another source entirely – at least in the last four decades or so. For exuberant dances, persuasive pitches, catchy dialogues, memorable music, or even challenging social conventions and mores, you can’t beat advertisements. In a time frame usually lasting less than a minute, ads made cases for products spanning washing powder to […]
Munshi Premchand is considered to be among the greatest writers of Hindi-Urdu fiction in the early twentieth century. Born Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (on July 31, 1880) in Varanasi, UP, he began writing novels and short stories under the pseudonym Nawab Rai. In 1909, he changed his pen name from Nawab Rai to Premchand after he was censured by the British government for the “seditious” content of his short story collection […]
In collaboration with Young Canadian Alliance, School of Flavours celebrates CANADA 150 and presents Akshar Pavilion TASTE OF INDIA food festival on August 5, 2017 at Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St W, Toronto M5H 2N2 from 12:00 Noon to 10:00 pm. FREE and family-friendly event perfect for this summer with more than 50 vendors attracting over 10,000 in attendance. Be a part of Bollywood style dances, classical temple dances, […]
