The Vanraj Bhatia interview: ‘My music was unique then and is perhaps unique even now’
The acclaimed 90-year-old composer looks back on the music he made and looks ahead to the opera he hopes to finish some day. Vanraj Bhatia | Photo by Chirodeep Chaudhuri/Scroll.in
On March 1, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Mumbai will pay tribute to film scores and songs composed by Vanraj Bhatia. Tabla player Zakir Hussain, the Symphony Orchestra of India, and Tushar Bhatia’s music group Swaradhara will perform Bhatia’s tunes. The 90-year-old composer will attend the event.
Vanraj Bhatia is preeminent among the handful of Indian musicians who have studied Western classical music in depth and have then successfully mixed that knowledge with an understanding of Hindustani classical music. His studies and the resulting scholarships and awards gave him a more substantial and sustained exposure to Western musical thought than perhaps any other Indian com
He was hospitalised for a few days and passed away on Tuesday night
Tributes started pouring in from entire generations of book lovers as news of the passing away of T.S. Shanbhag, the owner of erstwhile legendary Premier Book Shop, came out on Wednesday.
Balakrishna V., his financial advisor,told
The Hindu that he turned 84 on May 2. “He was suffering from an infection and then got COVID-19. He was hospitalised for a few days and passed away on Tuesday night,” he said. He is survived by his wife and daughter s family.
Started in 1971, the bookshop eventually closed down in 2009, the reason being an exponential increase in the rent on Church Street.
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“Dr Mohammad Yusuf was an excellent and influential researcher and faculty member. I like to send my heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathies to his bereaved family”, said Professor Mohammad Rizwan Khan (Chairman, Department of English).
Dr Mohammad Yusuf published research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented papers in national and international seminars, symposiums and conferences. His doctoral thesis was on ‘Antique Modes and Contemporary Narratives in the Works of Girish Karnad’.
Rupsha Guha completes 15 years in Tollywood The actress engages in a candid chat on completing a decade-and-a-half in the industry and her passion for writing scripts and short stories Arindam Chatterjee | | Published 29.04.21, 03:07 AM
Rupsha Guha has completed 15 years in the film and TV industry. Having shot for a film for a national OTT platform recently, she is now busy pursuing her passion for writing. A chat with Rupsha.
You are also writing scripts and short stories now. Tell us about that. What are the subjects? How did you develop this interest?
Stories come to me from observing people. the rest is a figment of my imagination. A lot of what I am writing is biographical, sometimes even autobiographical, much like a script I am working on called Feroz. I wish
Kabir Bedi in Sandokan (1976) | Radiotelevisione Italiana Kabir Bedi’s recently published memoir
Stories I Must Tell (Westland Books) has prominent sections on an Italian television show from 1976. That’s hardly surprising: titled Sandokan, the mini-series made the Indian actor a sensation in Italy and the rest of Europe and paved his path to Hollywood.
Sandokan is the dashing pirate hero from nineteenth-century Italian writer Emilio Salgari’s novels. Sandokan’s wealthy parents have been killed by the East India Company, which is seeking to expand its control of South East Asia.
Sandokan leads a group of rebellious sea raiders and frequently torments the British colonialists, earning him the title “Tiger of Malaysia”. Among Sandokan’s chief adversaries is the Rajah of Sarawak, based on the real-life British soldier James Brooke. Sandokan later falls in love with an Englishwoman named Marianna and marries her.