B.K. Agnihotri
He is the only Indian in the history of the American legal system to be the Dean of an American Law school and that too for 26 years until he stepped down to accept the post of Ambassador at Large for NRI and PIO affairs Read More …
Author: Kavita Chhibber
Ustad Shahid Parvez
“There is no greatness without pain.” He was a child prodigy who gave his first professional performance at the age of eight, and today Ustad Shahid Parvez is considered one of the greatest sitar players in the world after Pandit Ravi Shankar, and yet in Read More …
Johnny Lever: India’s Comedy King
With his short stature and dark skin, this high school drop out, with a passion for mimicing people, does not quite fit the larger-than-life illusions Bollywood spins in its stars. But Johnny Lever can not only carry an entire movie on his shoulders and attract Read More …
Ustad Imrat Khan
He comes from a lineage traced to Mia Tansen and is the younger brother of sitar legend Ustad Vilayat Khan. He has mastery in the sitar, surbahar, tabla and vocal music and yet at 68, the youthful Imrat Khan Sahib says he continues to practice Read More …
Pandit Jasraj
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 …
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia
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 …
Manna Dey
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 …
Anuradha Paudwal
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 …
Anup Jalota
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 …
Rahul Khanna
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 …
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