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Javed Akhtar On Films, Poetry and Writing

By kamla bhatt • Jan 17th, 2013 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Entertainment, Featured, India, Mumbai, New York, People

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Javed Akhtar is a well-known Hindi film lyricist, screenwriter and an urdu poet. He has been involved in Hindi film industry or Bollywood for over 40 years. In the interview Mr. Akhtar talks about Umrao Jaan, his father Jan Nissar Akhtar and writings. This interview was recorded on  November 2, 2006 at the IAAC film festival in Manhattan, New York. At the [...]

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Naresh Fernandes on Jazz in Bombay Part-2

By kamla bhatt • Jan 25th, 2012 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Entertainment, Featured, India, Mumbai, People

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India discovered America and made it their own though jazz music explains Naresh Fernades, whose book Taj Mahal Foxtrot, chronicles how jazz entered Bombay and found a new home in this port city.  Taj Mahal Foxtrot was the first jazz song recorded in Bombay. The early American musicians were traveling ministrels, who came to Bombay [...]

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Naresh Fernandes on Jazz in Bombay Part-1

By kamla bhatt • Jan 11th, 2012 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Entertainment, Featured, India, Mumbai, People, Video

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Naresh Fernandes is the author of  Taj Mahal Foxtrot that traces the history of jazz in Bombay, a thriving and important port city of India. Just like the American jazz age of the 1920s, there was an Indian jazz age in the 1920s that continued to grow and flourish until the 1940s. At first it [...]

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Dr. Amin Jaffer On The Splendors of Indian Maharajas

By kamla bhatt • Nov 29th, 2011 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, Hyderabad, India, London, Mumbai, New Delhi, People, Pune

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The splendors of an Indian maharaja’s (king) court is the stuff of legend that you may have heard or read in books. In Made For Maharajas A Design Diary of Princely India (Vendome Press, 2006) Dr. Amin Jaffer takes us on a splendid journey of the lifestyle of the rich and famous  Indian maharajas and maharanis [...]

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