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 Baisakhi has
evolved from a harvest festival embodying religious fervour to a
global celebration of Punjabi exuberance. Nirupama
Dutt captures the flavour of Baisakhi from Damdama Sahib to
Trafalgar Square
"So
you have come for the Baisakhi Mela?" The rickshawala asks in his
earthy Punjabi and before waiting for an answer asks another question,
"Why haven’t you brought your children?" ‘Children’ in
Punjabi parlance includes the spouse.
Baisakhi of 1919
Blossoms and waves
The
last Resort
In a landscape being
overtaken by steel and concrete, Roopinder Singh
escapes to a stretch of earth, trees and the sea
Kerala.
The tourism industry and the hype that it has created through its
advertising campaigns, travel brochures and websites, has desensitised
us to the beauty of "God’s Own Country," which has now
been reduced to a cliché. However, the memory of Kovalam visited 25
years ago was still fresh and beautiful. It is rare that the memories
and reality are in consonance, but in this case, they were, and
revisiting Kovalam was a treat.
Eternal
Dev
A retrospective of Dev
Anand’s hits held in Delhi shows why this vintage Bollywood star’s
appeal transcends time and trend, writes Saibal
Chatterjee
There
is nobody quite like Dev Anand. A timeless Bollywood icon, an eternal
dreamer and a man of action, his creative life has never known
anything akin to a full stop.
1000
shows, and still going strong
V.
Gangadhar on Dinesh Thakur’s record-breaking play Hai Mera
Dil
Around
11.15 pm on Sunday, March 27, the entire cast of Mumbai theatre
personality Dinesh Thakur’s ANK production, Hai Mera Dil came
on the stage at Prithvi Theatre to receive rounds of standing ovation.
Treat
for US fans
Brisk
ticket sales were reported for the Amitabh Bachchan retrospective
being organised by the Lincoln Centre Film Society in New York from
April 8 to 19.
Another
classic in colour
After
Mughal-E-Azam, the Meena Kumari-Raaj Kumar starrer Dil Apna
Aur Preet Parayi is getting ready to go colour. The process of
adding hues to the Kamal Amrohi film began on Thursday, said Asad
Tyrewala, director of Film India Communications and the man behind the
project.
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