Ideas Without Boundaries.
By Kavita Chhibber and Ajit Acharya On Saturday, September 6th Ajit and I headed to MIT’s Thomas Tull Concert Hall in Cambridge to see maestro Anupama Bhagwat (sitar) and Nitin Mitta (tabla) perform under the auspices of MITHAS. It was the first of the fall/winter Read More …
By Kavita A Chhibber My grandmother once said to me that whenever you pray and you suddenly find tears streaming down your cheeks, it means that the divine energy you are praying to is standing before you, answering your prayers, healing you, and telling you Read More …
By Kavita A. Chhibber “Thappad” is an important film on so many levels. The story, intersecting the lives of four women starts by seemingly revolving around one single slap (delivered in the heat of the moment, by an angry husband who is arguing with one of Read More …
By Kavita A Chhibber He is incredibly witty, has a phenomenal memory, endless energy and passion, and he is a very young 73, but not many people know that writer and poet extraordinaire, Javed Akhtar’s great great grandfather Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was Mirza Ghalib’s contemporary and Read More …
(Photographs courtesy of Dyuti Majumdar) Kavita’s note: This is not coverage that I normally do as a journalist, because my son Gautam Narula was one of the recipients. What I am sharing here is a personal reflection. October was a month of deep loss and Read More …
I wrote these thoughts sometime back but they hold true to this day. His movies are ageless; his stories the story of everyman transcend generations. My grandmother, my mother and I have all been fans. I see a lot of little kids watching these films Read More …
He was humming “Jaane kahan mera jigar gaya ji” as a toddler growing up in Pakistan before he could recite the alphabet. That love grew into an obsession for the musician whose music was nothing short of genius – whose music was a divine gift, Read More …
They are busy professionals, and yet an ensemble of dedicated and talented local vocalists and instrumentalists gathered together on April 18th at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington. The aim was to entertain, and to remind us that musically we will always rise on the Read More …
“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 …
Many years ago, a young girl, all of 10 years old, heard the sound of the sitar that moved her to tears.. her life’s dream was to some day sit in a live concert and hear this sitar player who ever he was, play face Read More …
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