Born in a middle class family, Bhanumathi, who is regarded as India's highest paid actress ever, used to watch her father performing on stage since childhood.
In recent years when we’ve talked about the relations between India and the West, we’ve gone back to stressing the impossibility of interchange. A hundred years ago, E.M. Forster ended A Passage to India with the certainty that Aziz and Fielding could not be friends. Forster thought things would be different after Indian independence, but