At the Bikaner House exhibition in Delhi titled The Legacy of Bhanu Athaiya, the Oscar-winner costume designer's six decades of work put India's fashion history in perspective.
From a burdened Nehru to a smirking Putin, each portrait sketched by AICC’s former national secretary Dalbir Singh and showcased at Delhi’s Russian Centre of Science and Culture, had its own story.
From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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