It came as a shock to hear that Nirmal Pandey passed away earlier today. He apparently suffered from a heart attack earlier this evening in India and lost his life.
A talented actor and an alum of India’s National School of Drama, Pandey made his mark in theatre before migrating to the silver screen. It was in [...]
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By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India, People, Video, YouTube Videos
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Americas, Books and Authors, Diaspora, People, Travel
(A version of this article was originally published in Traveller’s India magazine (USA) in 2005.)
Stephen Alter is a second generation Pahadi American just like his first cousin Bollywood actor Tom Alter.
Born in the hot and dusty plains of Uttar Pradesh, Alter grew up in the foothills of Himalayas, where he [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Books and Authors, India, People, Podcast
Penguin India has finally launched its blog. Their second post in the blog is a very nice roundup of the launch of Manohar Shyam Joshi’s T’ta Professor in English where Ira Pande and her cousin Prof. Pushpesh Pant spoke about Mr. Joshi and the book.
Mr. Joshi was a prolific writer and an early pioneer of [...]