Ideas Without Boundaries.
He is over 70 and yet his voice soars to heights vocalists half his age struggle to attain. He has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan, the title of Sangeet Martand, and innumerable other accolades, yet Pundit Jasraj takes it all in his stride. In Read More …
His musical journey has had the most unlikely beginnings and yet today he is the greatest living flute player in the world. He insists he may create heavenly music blowing into a piece of bamboo, but he remains jealous of Lord Krishna, who in spite Read More …
He is perhaps the last of the living legends among male singers, gifted with a unique voice no one has managed to ape till now. While you come across clones of other legendary singers in the present day world of vocal music, Manna Dey remains Read More …
She worshipped the sounds of music, though there was nothing musical in her family background. Shying from the limelight, she was nevertheless thrust into it, by the chant of a Shiv shloka, rising to dizzying heights of success. Music maestro O.P. Nayyar, had said she Read More …
He is called the bhajan samrat, the ghazal maestro and performs an incredible 12 concerts every month, traveling around the world five, six times a year. He accomplished in five years what took Elvis Presley 27, when in 1998 he surpassed Presley’s record of 45 Read More …
He has been in the limelight since his teenage years as a VJ and a model, before making his acting debut as the shy masseur in Deepa Mehta’s 1947 Earth, but what is perhaps most appealing about Rahul Khanna is his spontaneous child-like laughter, and Read More …
Competent is the Enemy of the Brilliant” For all he has achieved or survived, says Anupam Kher, this is only the intermission of his life. It is said real life happens to you while you are busy making plans. The only thing Anupam Kher planned Read More …
She is known as much for her beauty, her knee length long tresses and dimples as she is for her prowess at badminton, and her sari collection. A celebrated theater actress, who took a 15 year hiatus to raise her son, Kiron Kher returned to Read More …
She was transplanted from Kenya as a toddler to Britain where her father was turned down for a position at Barclay’s Bank in London because he was a Sikh. After stints as a BBC news reporter, she went on to direct award-winning documentaries for the Read More …
A little Marwari boy in what he called a Marwari ghetto, in a not so affluent section of Kolkata, in a conservative family where films were frowned upon, Jagmohan Mundhra secretly dreamed of becoming a filmmaker when others dreamt of being cricket and film stars. Read More …