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Come November and
people remember its fourth day. That
was the day when the anti-Sikh genocide occurred. And recalling
that brings back memories of 1984, the year it all happened. It
was a year that scarred a nation’s soul. It was a year that witnessed
Operation Bluestar, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the anti-Sikh
genocide and the ascendancy of Rajiv Gandhi as India’s Prime Minister.
It was a year that will be remembered for decades to come. This
is what I remember of 1984, recounts Rajinder Puri.
Woven
wonder
Bengal’s kantha has moved
out of humble rural homes to the designer abodes of the
cognoscenti. Behind this popularity are the unknown faces of
ordinary women with a rich imagination and designers who tapped
its potential, finds Ranjita Biswas.
TWO
years ago, in a beautiful Victorian manor along the banks of the
Thames river, where the royal swans glided past, an exhibition
on kantha collection created a stir. Recently, in Kolkata
on the bank of the Hooghly, which was once the British capital,
another exhibition, "Kantha Kaleidoscope" on the
British Council premises made it a conversation piece with its
innovative designs.
Calories
& charisma
A.C. Tuli
A
ballerina on the rolls of Moscow’s Bolshoi theatre was
recently shown the door as her male partners had begun
complaining that she had become a little too heavy for them to
lift. In fact , the root cause of the trouble was the ballerina’s
penchant for icecreams that was adding extra pounds to her
weight.
Cartoonist
who provokes you to think
Humra Quraishi
AFTER
viewing Abu Abraham's cartoons at the India Habitat Centre's
Palm Court, I went towards the auditorium which was screening
two films, one film made by Abu himself and the other one made
on him by Sudhir Tailang. And this screening was followed by
Tailang inviting Abu's second wife Psyche and daughters Ayisha
and Janaki ( born from his first marriage) to the stage.
"Piya
Basanti changed my life forever"
Avinash Kalla
SHE’S
being billed as the next Preity Zinta. Bubbly, spontaneous and
talented, Nauheed Cyrusi created a sensation with the video of
Sultan Ahmed Khan’s song, Piya Basanti. Since then,
there’s been no looking back for this true-blue Mumbaikar. Now
she is hoping her film Inteha is as big a success as her
music video.
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